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The Last Emperor
1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

The Mission
1986 film directed by Roland Joffé
Kagemusha
is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

Evil Under the Sun
1982 film by Guy Hamilton

The Bounty
1984 film directed by Roger Donaldson

Lion of the Desert
1980 film by Moustapha Akkad

The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 film by Peter Greenaway

The Sea Wolves
1980 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

Sarraounia
1986 film by Med Hondo

Un amour de Swann
1984 film by Volker Schlöndorff

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
1981 Nigerian film by Sharad Patel

Chouans!
Chouans! is a 1988 French historical adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, and Lambert Wilson. Loosely based on the 1829 novel Les Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, the film is about a woman who must choose between two brothers on opposite sides of the French Civil War of 1793. For her performance in the film, Sophie Marceau received the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

Adi Shankaracharya
1983 Indian film
The Bunker
1981 television film directed by George Schaefer

The Lighthorsemen
1987 film by Simon Wincer

Priest of Love
1981 film by Christopher Miles

A Summer Story
1988 film by Piers Haggard

The Bushido Blade
1979 film

Magnat
1987 film by Filip Bajon

The Xi'an Incident
1981 Chinese film

Mircea
1989 film about Mircea I of Wallachia, the Christian king of Wallachia directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu

The Hostage of Europe
1989 Polish film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
A Tale of Two Cities
1980 American made-for-TV historical drama film by Jim Goddard

Wizja lokalna 1901
1981 film by Filip Bajon

Imperial Navy
1981 film by Shūe Matsubayashi