History of the World: Part I (1981)
Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
- Date of release
- 1981-06-12
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (959)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Mel Brooks
Casting
- Mel Brooks — Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
- Dom DeLuise — Emperor Nero
- Madeline Kahn — Empress Nympho
- Harvey Korman — Count de Monet
- Cloris Leachman — Madame Defarge
- Ron Carey — Swiftus
- Gregory Hines — Josephus
- Pamela Stephenson — Mademoiselle Rimbaud
- Shecky Greene — Marcus Vindictus
- Sid Caesar — Chief Caveman
- Mary-Margaret Humes — Miriam
- Orson Welles — Narrator (voice)
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