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1960s Historical Movies

Public list by WPS with 93 movies or TV shows/series

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Spartacus(1960)

3h 17min | History, War, Drama, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 914 votes)

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, ...
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Isadora(1968)

PG
| 2h 11min | Drama, History, Music, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

Directed by Karel Reisz - With Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox, Zvonimir Črnko, Bessie Love, Jason Robards, ...

El Cid(1961)

NR
| 3h 2min | Action, Drama, History, Romance / Love, War
3.5/5 (with 113 votes)

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Hurd Hatfield, Herbert Lom, ...

Two Rode Together(1961)

NR
| 1h 49min | Western
3.3/5 (with 53 votes)

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

Directed by John Ford - With James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devine, John McIntire, ...
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Khartoum(1966)

2h 14min | History, War, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 41 votes)

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Directed by Basil Dearden - With Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Michael Hordern, ...
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The 300 Spartans(1962)

PG
| 1h 54min | History, War, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 58 votes)

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.

Directed by Rudolph Maté - With Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar, Donald Houston, ...
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Winnetou and the Crossbreed(1966)

G
| 1h 30min | Adventure, Western
3.0/5 (with 34 votes)

On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's protection.

Directed by Harald Philipp - With Lex Barker, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Pierre Brice, Thomas Eckelmann, Ralf Wolter, Götz George, ...

Major Dundee(1965)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Western
3.3/5 (with 63 votes)

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Directed by Sam Peckinpah - With Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Senta Berger, Michael Pate, ...
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55 Days at Peking(1963)

NR
| 2h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 68 votes)

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Directed by Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton - With Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland, Leo Genn, ...

Winnetou: The Red Gentleman(1964)

1h 34min | Western, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 47 votes)

Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.

Directed by Harald Reinl - With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinski, Renato Baldini, ...

The Colossus of Rhodes(1961)

2h 7min | History, Drama, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 74 votes)

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Directed by Sergio Leone - With Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Ángel Aranda, Mabel Karr, George Rigaud, Mimmo Palmara, ...
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Winnetou 1: Apache Gold(1963)

NR
| 1h 41min | Western, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 62 votes)

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.

Directed by Harald Reinl - With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Mario Adorf, Marie Versini, Ralf Wolter, Walt Barnes, ...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy(1965)

2h 18min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 55 votes)

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Directed by Carol Reed - With Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi, ...
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Shalako(1968)

1h 53min | Western
2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Peter van Eyck, ...

The Treasure of the Silver Lake(1962)

1h 51min | Adventure, Western
3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.

Directed by Harald Reinl - With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Götz George, Herbert Lom, Karin Dor, Eddi Arent, ...

The Count of Monte Cristo(1961)

3h | History
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara - With Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Roldano Lupi, Bernard Dhéran, Jean-Claude Michel, ...

H.M.S. Defiant(1962)

1h 41min | Adventure, History
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter, ...

The Desperado Trail(1965)

1h 33min | Adventure, Western
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.

Directed by Harald Reinl - With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Sophie Hardy, Ralf Wolter, Carl Lange, ...
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Shenandoah(1965)

NR
| 1h 45min | Western, War
3.5/5 (with 57 votes)

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Katharine Ross, Rosemary Forsyth, ...
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Sergeant Rutledge(1960)

NR
| 1h 51min | Western
3.6/5 (with 49 votes)

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Directed by John Ford - With Woody Strode, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Carleton Young, Juano Hernández, ...
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Alvarez Kelly(1966)

NR
| 1h 46min | Action, War, Western
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal, Roger C. Carmel, Harry Carey, ...
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The Valley of Death(1968)

NR
| 1h 29min | Western, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.

Directed by Harald Reinl - With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Karin Dor, Rik Battaglia, Ralf Wolter, Eddi Arent, ...

The Charge of the Light Brigade(1968)

PG-13
| 2h 19min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 25 votes)

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgement and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders.

Directed by Tony Richardson - With Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings, ...
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A Thunder of Drums(1961)

NR
| 1h 37min | Western
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Captain Maddocks will never be promoted beyond Captain because of a mistake that he made in the past. Lt. McQuade is a green rookie who is now under the command of the tough Captain and he does not seem to be able to do anything right. Lt. McQuade also has trouble with Tracey, but it will be the renegade Indians that will test him and teach him the importance of following orders.

Directed by Joseph M. Newman - With Richard Boone, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Arthur O'Connell, Charles Bronson, Richard Chamberlain, ...
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England(1960)

NR
| 1h 25min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

London at the turn of the century. Three men is on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.

Directed by John Guillermin - With Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'Toole, Albert Sharpe, Andrew Keir, Hugh Griffith, ...

Custer of the West(1967)

G
| 2h 20min | Western
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Directed by Robert Siodmak - With Robert Shaw, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin, Mary Ure, Lawrence Tierney, Robert Ryan, ...
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Geronimo(1962)

1h 41min | Western, History
2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food for their warriors. Soon though, Geronimo escapes the camps and declares war against the Americans.

Directed by Arnold Laven - With Chuck Connors, Adam West, Denver Pyle, Armando Silvestre, Claudio Brook, Joseph H. Higgins, ...
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Knights of the Teutonic Order(1960)

2h 46min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Directed by Aleksander Ford - With Mieczysław Kalenik, Tadeusz Kosudarski, Andrzej Szalawski, Henryk Borowski, Aleksander Fogiel, Urszula Modrzyńska, ...

Pharaoh(1966)

3h | History, Drama
3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.

Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz - With Jerzy Zelnik, Barbara Brylska, Krystyna Mikołajewska, Stanisław Milski, Kazimierz Opaliński, Wiesława Mazurkiewicz, ...

Prince Yeonsan(1961)

2h 13min | Drama, History
4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A historical drama about Yeonsangun of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.

Directed by Shin Sang-ok
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