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Best History Movies of the 1980s
Amadeus (1984)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h40The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Gandhi (1982)
PGBiography, Drama, History3h11The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Glory (1989)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h02Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Mississippi Burning (1988)
RCrime, Drama, History2h08Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
The Killing Fields (1984)
RBiography, Drama, History2h21A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Empire of the Sun (1987)
PGAction, Drama, History2h33A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History2h43The story of the final Emperor of China.
The Mission (1986)
PGAdventure, Drama, History2h05Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
History of the World: Part I (1981)
RComedy, History, Musical1h32Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.