Best History movies of 1960s

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Chishû Ryû, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Seiji Maruyama,

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.

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

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 : Christine Kaufmann, Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Lionello De Felice,

Biopic of Constantine the Great, set between 293-312 AD, from his days as Tribune to his accession as Roman Emperor of Gaul under the tetrarchy system and ending with his battle against the usurper Roman Emperor Maxentius in Rome.

Actors : Tito Junco, Tito Novaro, Roberto Cañedo, Tomás Perrín,
Directors : Julio Bracho,

The movie situated in post-revolutionary Mexico describes the way politics were done in those times. Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate of the Partido Radical Progresista, but he ...

Actors : Nikolay Gubenko, Sergei Volf, Georgiy Burkov, Leonid Kulagin,

Three unconnected episodes united by a common theme: the establishment of the Soviet rule in Russia during the civil war of the early 1920s. Depicts dramatic events in simple lives of peasants and soldiers.

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 : Risto Taulo, Anja Pohjola, Aarno Sulkanen, Ulla Eklund,
Directors : Edvin Laine,

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

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

Actors : Igor Dmitriev, Ariadna Shengelaia, Imre Sinkovits, Sándor Pécsi,
Directors : Márton Keleti,

Pianist and composer Liszt was giving performances all over Europe and made his famous concert tour to St. Petersburg, Russia. Liszt's brilliant piano playing impressed the Russian royalty ...

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

The assasination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.

Actors : Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Jeanne Crain, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Fernando Cerchio,

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.

Actors : Hôsei Komatsu, Noriko Matsumoto, Kei Yamamoto, Rokkô Toura,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

The vengeful son of a murdered feudal lord meets a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime in this unusual animated film where still manga drawings are accompanied with sound.

Actors : Atif Kaptan, Tijen Par, Sevim Emre, Atilla Arcan,
Directors : Muharrem Gürses,

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Walter Rilla, Charles Regnier,

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and...

Actors : Gojko Mitic, Horst Schulze, Barbara Brylska, Holger Mahlich,

Farsighted Falcon, the Dakota chief, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, the sole survivors of his tribe, in order to join part of the Cheyenne headed ...

Actors : Kôtarô Satomi, Junko Miyazono, Isao Natsuyagi, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

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 ...