Best History movies of 1990s

Actors : Massimo Bellinzoni, Arnaldo Ninchi, Dalia Lahav, Luigi Diberti,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

Actors : Uldis Dumpis, Gundars Abolins, Maija Apine, Inese Caune,
Directors : Aigars Grauba,

Set in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.

Actors : Beto Simas, Ariana Messias, Darci Figueiredo, Carlos Evelyn,
Directors : Luís Alberto Pereira,

On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to ...

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 : Johana Tesarová, Monika Hilmerová, Michal Sieczkowski, Vilma Cibulková,
Directors : Milan Cieslar,

The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of ...

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 : Alaa El Din Koksh, Jamal Suleiman, Salma Al-Masri, Ghassan Massoud,
Directors : Seifollah Dad,

Actors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri, Vani Viswanathan, Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Mohan Babu,
Directors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri,

A story of a brave child religious ruler and the tragedies he faces.

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

A true story about a Flemish resistance warrior.

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 : 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 : Fay Masterson, Sello Sebotsane, Wilson Dunster, Sean Gallagher,

In 1886 the 20 years old Percy Fitzpatrick sets out from Kaapstad (Cape Town) for the Transvaal to dig for gold. On his way he prevents the weakly puppy Jock from being drowned and adopts ...

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 ...

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 : Omar Bekhaled, Roschdy Zem, Fadila Belkebla, 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 : Paul Kersey, Bing Shao, Zhen Ying, Jing Ning,
Directors : Xiaoning Feng,

At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ...

Actors : Lucia Poli, Valentino Davanzati, Renzo Cerrato, Paolo Spaziani,
Directors : Paolo Benvenuti,

Actors : Toni Bertorelli, Andrea Di Stefano, 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 : Toshiya Nagasawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

Actors : Matthew Zajac, Brian Blessed, Fish, 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.