The list of Romanian historical films groups historical drama film and TV productions by the Romanian cinema. Historical films are a genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous persons. Some films attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow, while others are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds.
The action in the majority of the films is set in the region of modern Romania.
| Title
|
Original title
|
Release year
|
Time period
|
Events
|
Personalities
|
External
|
| Aferim!
|
Aferim!
|
2015
|
ca. 1810
|
Roma slavery
|
|
Aferim! at IMDb
|
| Burebista
|
Burebista
|
1980
|
70–44 BC
|
Consolidation of the Dacian Kingdom, Third Servile War
|
Burebista, Spartacus (mentioned)
|
Burebista at IMDb, Cinemagia
|
| The Dacians
|
Dacii
|
1967
|
84–89 AD
|
Domitian's Dacian War
|
Decebalus, Domitian
|
|
| The Hatchet
|
Baltagul
|
1969
|
1930
|
|
|
|
| The Independence of Romania
|
Independenţa României
|
1912
|
1887–1878
|
Romanian War of Independence, Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
|
Carol I, Alexander II of Russia, Osman Pasha, Peneş Curcanul
|
Independenta Romaniei at IMDb, Cinemagia
|
| The Column
|
Columna
|
1968
|
106 AD
|
Trajan's Dacian Wars
|
Trajan, Decebalus
|
Columna at IMDb
|
| Cantemir
|
Cantemir
|
1973
|
|
|
Dimitrie Cantemir
|
|
| Oglinda
|
Începutul adevărului
|
1993
|
1939–1945
|
Romania during World War II
|
Ion Antonescu
|
|
| Mircea
|
Mircea
|
1989
|
1386–1418
|
Battle of Rovine, Battle of Nicopolis
|
Mircea cel Batrân, Mehmed I, Vlad III the Impaler
|
Mircea at IMDb
|
| For the country
|
Pentru patrie
|
1978
|
1877–1878
|
Romanian War of Independence
|
Carol I of Romania
|
|
| Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man
|
Portretul luptătorului la tinerețe
|
2010
|
1950s
|
|
Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu
|
|
| Through the Ashes of the Empire
|
Prin cenușa imperiului
|
1976
|
1917
|
|
|
|
| Vlad Țepeș (film)
|
Vlad Țepeș (film)
|
1979
|
1428–1476
|
|
Vlad the Impaler
|
|
| Stephen the Great - Vaslui 1475
|
Ștefan cel Mare - Vaslui 1475
|
1975
|
1475
|
Battle of Vaslui
|
Stephen III of Moldavia
|
|
| Michael the Brave (film)
|
Mihai Viteazul
|
1970
|
1593–1600
|
|
Michael the Brave
|
|
