Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Minas Christidis, Dimitris Myrat, Manos Katrakis, Giannis Voglis,
Directors : Pantelis Voulgaris,

The life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.

Actors : Michael McGuire, Bruce Newbold, Craig Wasson, Morgan White,
Directors : Peter N. Johnson,

It showed the process it took to write the Constitution of the United States.

Actors : Marga Barbu, Florin Piersic, Szabolcs Cseh, Alexandru Repan,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

Actors : Branca de Camargo, Alex Carozzo, Paola Agosti, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Franco Piavoli,

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles...

Actors : Chun Hsiung Ko, Po-Chou Chang, Sheng Li Cho, Chun-Fang Chang,
Directors : Toon Wang,

Chronicles the last days of Japanese rule in a Taiwanese village, in a quasi-comical style.

Actors : Luca Barbareschi, Elena Sofia Ricci, Jacques Perrin, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.

Actors : Boguslaw Linda, Adam Ferency, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Barbara Grabowska,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker...

Actors : Mattia Sbragia, Consuelo Ferrara, Bruno Zanin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuseppe Ferrara,

The story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.

Actors : Nikolai Voloshin, Andrey Dudarenko, Sergey Nikonenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Grigori Nikulin,

Epic film about life of three generations in central Russia on the Volga river.

Actors : Raymond Bossaerts, Frank Aendenboom, Camilia Blereau, Chris Boni,
Directors : Paul Cammermans,

Flanders' countryside in Belgium's early decades didn't belong to the hard-working farmers, like patriarch Van Paemel, who would rather die then consider any alternative to knowing his ...

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Alyona Bondarchuk, Valeriy Storozhik, Gennadi Mitrofanov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Based on the Alexander Pushkin's play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605.

Actors : Mihai Mereuta, Stela Furcovici, Adrian Pintea, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Dinu Cocea,

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.

Actors : Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te,
Directors : Yermek Shinarbayev,

After their son is murdered a couple raise a second son to avenge him.

Actors : Nikolay Karachentsov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Oleg Menshikov, Lyudmila Nilskaya,
Directors : Aleksandr Muratov,

Captain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.

Actors : Teofil Vâlcu, Constantin Dinulescu, David Ohanesian, Traian Stanescu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societies are working to chase away the ...

Actors : Amin Tarokh, Jalal Moghadam, Hadi Eslami, Farimah Farjami,
Directors : Masud Kimiai,

Tehran, 1948. A young Jewish couple, Danial and his wife Munes, decide to immigrate to the recently founded state of Israel. But their application is rejected on the ground of the documents...

Actors : Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Arnar Jónsson, Kristján Jóhann Jónsson, Þráinn Karlsson,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

From an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.

Actors : Aleksandr Cherednik, Robert Vaap, Aleksandr Abdulov, Cécile Zervudacki,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing ...

Actors : Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Boris Nevzorov, Margarita Terekhova, Lyudmila Chursina,
Directors : Gennadiy Vasilev,

Action of a picture happens in Ancient Russia (Rus) - in those days when the Slavs who have united in army under leadership of Ratibor, the son Vseslav managed to win the first victories over tribes of nomads.

Actors : James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Ben Cross, Irene Papas,
Directors : Alexander Ramati,

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.