Best 23 History Movies Must-See Released in 1990

Robert 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. More about Glory / IMDB / YouTube

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly. More about Cyrano de Bergerac / IMDB / YouTube

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth. Find out about Europa Europa / IMDB / YouTube

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld. Check out The Krays / IMDB / YouTube

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river. More about Mountains of the Moon / IMDB / YouTube

Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them. Get info on Black Rain / IMDB / YouTube

The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity. See more about Come See the Paradise / IMDB / YouTube

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her. Learn about The Nasty Girl / IMDB / YouTube

A kung-fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos. Look into Swordsman / IMDB / YouTube

A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally. Details on Red Dawn / IMDB / YouTube

The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. Explore Korczak / IMDB / YouTube

En route to Paris, a group gets lost during a storm and seeks refuge in a castle owned by a ruined nobleman, who wants to join the group's trek to Paris. Find out about The Voyage of Captain Fracassa / IMDB / YouTube

Set in the seventeenth century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes. See more about The King's Whore / IMDB / YouTube

Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France for Spain. Instead, he drugged them and burnt their bodies in his home, while stealing their valuables. After the Liberation of France, he was condemned to death. Learn about Dr. Petiot / IMDB / YouTube

Weary of her very public life in Paris, an aging courtesan takes her orphaned niece from her convent home and relocates to Monte Carlo to begin a new life. Determined to bury the past, the courtesan Madame Bluet becomes the respectable Countess de Secret, and her niece Mistral, Mademoiselle Phantome. Soon, the secretive Countess and the beautiful Mlle. Phantome are th. Learn about A Ghost in Monte Carlo / IMDB / YouTube

Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. After that summer and the election of Hitler, things change as anti-semitism gains fervor. After the core of the film deals wit. Details on Reunion / IMDB / YouTube

This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee, now known as Nora Lam, who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian faith. Get info on China Cry: A True Story / IMDB / YouTube

German Army colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg plans to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler on July 20th, 1944 with a briefcase bomb, while other high-ranking plotters in Berlin are preparing to take power in a coup. Details on The Plot to Kill Hitler / IMDB / YouTube

Life in Hiroshima, following different Japanese, a German priest and church, and some American POWs, before and after the atomic bomb was dropped August 6, 1945. Learn about Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes / IMDB / YouTube

Country girl Ginga leaves her home in hope of becoming one of the Emperor's Wives. Get info on Like the Clouds, Like the Wind / IMDB / YouTube

As he prepares for a show, fashion designer Giorgio Armani discusses his principles of fashion, his family history and the city of Milan. Find out about Made in Milan / IMDB / YouTube

March 1917. World War I is already three years in. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Germany and Sweden to St. Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise known as Lenin. Two senior officers support thenrevolutionary bomb to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes. Find out about Lenin: The Train / IMDB / YouTube

Comedy set in the 16th century. Brantome is a soldier embroiled in the religious wars but more interested in women, and has many mistresses among the ladies of the royal court, although his heart belongs to just one, Victoire. Get info on Dames galantes / IMDB / YouTube