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1990s Historical Movies

Public list by WPS with 71 movies or TV shows/series

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Schindler's List(1993)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 15min | Drama, History, War
4.3/5 (with 6,950 votes)

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Braveheart(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 58min | Action, Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 4,499 votes)

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

The 13th Warrior(1999)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 42min | Adventure, History, Action
3.3/5 (with 810 votes)

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland, Ahmad ibn Fadlan finds himself in the company of Vikings. While the behavior of the Norsemen initially offends ibn Fadlan, the more cultured outsider grows to respect the tough, if uncouth, warriors. During their travels together, ibn Fadlan and the Vikings get word of an evil presence closing in, and they must fight the frightening and formidable force, which was previously thought to exist only in legend.

Tombstone(1993)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 10min | Western, Action
3.8/5 (with 912 votes)

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

Pocahontas(1995)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 25min | Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 2,585 votes)

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

JFK(1991)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 9min | Drama, Thriller, History
3.8/5 (with 949 votes)

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Apollo 13(1995)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 20min | History, Drama, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 2,401 votes)

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Elizabeth(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 605 votes)

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

Sommersby(1993)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 157 votes)

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.

The Secret Garden(1993)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 42min | Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 386 votes)

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

Rob Roy(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 19min | Adventure, History, Drama, Action, War
3.4/5 (with 265 votes)

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

Anna Karenina(1997)

1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

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Rosewood(1997)

3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

The Day of the Roses(1998)

1h 50min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing part of the train and killing 83 passengers and injuring more than 200 others. This story follows the coronial inquiry into the crash with flash-backs to the main story, and the efforts of the rescuers to free the injured victims.

Directed by Peter Fisk - With Rebecca Gibney, Paul Mercurio, Stephen Curry

Colonel Chabert(1994)

1h 50min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

Orlando(1992)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 130 votes)

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

Pan Tadeusz(1999)

2h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 24 votes)

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.

Robin Hood(1991)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Adventure
2.9/5 (with 65 votes)

The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

Sharpe's Rifles(1993)

1h 42min | War, Adventure, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a 'proper officer'.

Directed by Tom Clegg - With Sean Bean

Swept from the Sea(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

Diên Biên Phu(1992)

2h 5min | Drama, War
3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

The Emperor's Shadow(1996)

1h 56min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.

Directed by Zhou Xiaowen - With Jiang Wen, Ge You, Xu Qing

Stalin(1992)

2h 46min | Drama, History, War, TV Movie
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Solomon & Sheba(1995)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the tiny country of Sheba to announce his intentions. The Queen of Sheba, Nikaule (Halle Berry), is outraged by Solomon’s greedy plan.

Directed by Robert Milton Young - With Halle Berry

Cousin Bette(1998)

2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her.

Tom & Viv(1994)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.

With Fire and Sword(1999)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 55min | Adventure, Drama, History, War, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 36 votes)

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...

Sharpe's Eagle(1993)

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.

Directed by Tom Clegg - With Sean Bean

Sharpe's Revenge(1997)

3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.

Directed by Tom Clegg - With Sean Bean

Sharpe's Company(1994)

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?

Directed by Tom Clegg - With Sean Bean
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