

History of the World: Part I
DirectorMel Brooks
“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.
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Trailer
History of the World: Part I (1981) Original Trailer [FHD]
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)
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