Best History movies of 1980s

Actors : Martin Vaughan, Arthur Dignam, Angela Punch McGregor, Lewis Fitz-Gerald,
Directors : Igor Auzins,

Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.

Actors : Garry McDonald, Paul Daniel, Tony, Mike,
Directors : Jonathan Dawson,

The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.

Actors : Hema Malini, Pradeep Kumar, Parveen Babi, Dharmendra,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

An account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.

Actors : Jaya Prada, Srinivasa Murthy, Balkrishna, Rajkumar,
Directors : Renuka Sharma,

Sanskrit and upper-caste poet, Kalidas, faces many challenges after falling in love with a low-caste woman, and being entered into a competition against a learned princess.

Actors : Ye Chen, Xiaoqing Liu, Kun Xiang, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Han Hsiang Li,

Dramatization of events from the Second Opium War which culminated in the looting and destruction of imperial estate "Yuan Ming Yuan", AKA the Old Summer Palace by invading English and French troops.

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 : Ovidiu Iulian Moldovan, Dan Sandulescu, Serban Ionescu, Radu Beligan,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

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.

Actors : Matthew Fargher, Jack Thompson, Greta Scacchi, Nigel Havers,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.

Actors : Mohsen Mohieddin, Michel Piccoli, Mohamad Atef, Patrice Chéreau,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

A story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors.

Actors : Freark Smink, Joke Tjalsma, Peter Tuinman, Huub Stapel,
Directors : Pieter Verhoeff,

On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.

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

Actors : Kenneth Gilbert, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Roger Rees,
Directors : Tony Tew,

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.

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

Actors : John Cullum, Franco Nero, Carole Laure, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey, Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson,

A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect ...

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.