Comedy
History of the World: Part I
“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.
Directed by Mel Brooks
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User score
934 votes
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Status
Released
Released
June 12, 1981
Runtime
1h 32m
Language
French, Latin, English
Budget → Revenue
$10M → $31.7M
Top cast
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)
Rudy De Luca
Prehistoric Man / Captain Mucus - The Roman Empire
Leigh French
Prehistoric Woman
Richard Karron
Prehistoric Man
Susette Carroll
Prehistoric Man
Sammy Shore
Prehistoric Man
J.J. Barry
Prehistoric Man
Earl Finn
Prehistoric Man / Disciple - The Roman Empire
Suzanne Kent
Prehistoric Man
