Best History movies of 1990s

Actors : Adrian Vâlcu, Ion Siminie, Stefan Radoff, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.

Actors : Conor Chamberlain, Gary Andrew, Richard Brimblecombe, Brian Blessed,

In the early 14th century, Scottish warrior and Earl Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scots, leading Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England.

Actors : Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Lasse Pöysti, Vesa Vierikko, Jarmo Mäkinen,
Directors : Åke Lindman,

Actors : Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova, Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham,
Directors : Gleb Panfilov,

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

Actors : Andrea Di Stefano, Toni Bertorelli, Barbora Bobulova, Anita Laurenzi,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. He is court martialled however for disobeying orders and sentenced to...

Actors : Bogdan Stupka, Rolan Bykov, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Lev Durov,
Directors : Igor Gostev,

Actors : Jesús Albornoz, Marcio Almeida, Jorge Abalo, Emilia Mazer,
Directors : Aníbal Di Salvo,

Actors : Maria Ellingsen, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Egill Ólafsson,
Directors : Egill Eðvarðsson,

Agnes, the beautiful housekeeper of the sheriff of a small Icelandic county sees a chance to get herself and her young daughter away from her brutal employer when she falls in love with the...

Actors : Galina Sulima, Georgi Morozyuk, Maksim Koval, Oleksiy Gorbunov,
Directors : Oles Yanchuk,

This film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended ...

Actors : Doug McKeon, Camilla Søeberg, Norman Rodway, Peter Michael Goetz,
Directors : Barry J. Hershey,

Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and ...

Actors : Matthew Zajac, Fish, Brian Blessed, Iain Cuthbertson,
Directors : Graham Holloway,

The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Claude Jade, Philippe Laudenbach, Daniel Mesguich,
Directors : Iradj Azimi,

Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Claude Jade: A la recherche de la fortune et du paradis ils ne connurent que l'enfer.

Actors : Oliver Windross, Stuart Laing, Werner De Smedt, Mapi Galán,
Directors : Robbe De Hert,

A true story about a Flemish resistance warrior.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Sastri, Anna Falchi, Massimo Ghini,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

The difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just ended WWII.

Actors : Toshiya Nagasawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Actors : Omar Bekhaled, Fadila Belkebla, Roschdy Zem, Farida Rahouadj,
Directors : Bourlem Guerdjou,

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living In Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Virgil Flonda, George Alexandru, Vladimir Gaitan,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Laura Morante, Bernard Giraudeau, Emmanuelle Laborit,
Directors : Roberto Faenza,

Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, ...

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Ray Lui, Rosamund Kwan,
Directors : Stephen Shin,

Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang...

Actors : Chang-Bin Jen, Chia-Chia Peng, Pin-Yuan Huang, Xianmei Chen,
Directors : Toon Wang,

In the 1920's, when Taiwan is Japan's colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Escaping from the landlord's control, Chu and Wei join the gold rush in Chiu-Fen, hoping ...