Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Jean-François Poron, Marina Vlady, Annie Ducaux, Jean Marais,
Directors : Jean Delannoy,

Princess of Cleves is married with a rich and old prince but she loves secretly a lord younger, more beautiful and also very popular.

Actors : Carlo D'Angelo, Jack Palance, Guy Madison, Eleonora Rossi Drago,
Directors : Carlo Campogalliani,

A cruel Lombard ruler marries the daughter of another king, kills her father, beats her lover but he ultimately faces a major popular revolt against him.

Actors : Paolo Stoppa, Renzo Ricci, Franco Interlenghi, Giovanna Ralli,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

How Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples.

Actors : Lobna Abdel Aziz, Farid Shawqi, Ahmed Mazhar, Rushdy Abaza,

Actors : Isao Kimura, Akiko Kazami, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie,
Directors : Tomu Uchida,

The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still named Shinmen Takezo. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and come across a young woman and her mother.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Pyotr Glebov, Rolan Bykov, Vsevolod Platov,
Directors : Vladimir Vengerov,

Actors : Claudio Gora, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale, Steve Reeves,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Caesar informed on the actions and ...

Actors : Gordon Mitchell, Jacques Bergerac, Cristina Gaioni, Ennio Girolami,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.

Actors : Dolores Hart, Hugh Griffith, Stephen Boyd, Leo McKern,
Directors : Philip Dunne,

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Actors : John Laurie, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Ronald Lewis,
Directors : Nathan Juran,

In league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way.

Actors : Lex Barker, Alessandra Panaro, Mario Petri, Guy Madison,
Directors : Luigi Capuano,

In Venice,during the Inquisition,Sandrigo Bembo,the son of the Doge Giovanni Bembo,is falsely accused of treason out of pure malice by the Grand Inquisitor Rodrigo Zeno.

Actors : Jaroslav Rozsíval, Frantisek Kuchta, Magdalena Lokvencová, Karol L. Zachar,
Directors : Palo Bielik,

The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Henri Garcin,
Directors : Jean-Louis Richard,

The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.

Actors : Jacqueline Sassard, Andrea Bosic, Steve Reeves, Mimmo Palmara,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.

Actors : Raffaele Pisu, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Tatyana Samoylova, Arthur Kennedy,
Directors : Giuseppe De Santis,

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Actors : Dan Vadis, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Giovanni Vari, Helga Liné,
Directors : Nick Nostro,

The story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the ...

Actors : Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Jelínek, Ladislav Mrkvicka, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Jirí Sequens,

The assasination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Henry Fonda, Annie Girardot, Vittorio Gassman,

The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.

Actors : Kamini Kaushal, Nirupa Roy, Prem Chopra, Anand Kumar,
Directors : S. Ram Sharma,

Shaheed (1965) presents the inspirational biography of one of India's greatest patriots Sardar Bhagat Singh.

Actors : Stefan Ciubotarasu, George Calboreanu, Colea Rautu, Dina Cocea,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.