Best History movies of 1979

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy,

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Simon Ward, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of ...

Actors : Teofil Vâlcu, Emanoil Petrut, Ernest Maftei, Stefan Sileanu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Actors : Adel Imam, Said Abdel Ghani, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Actors : Jonas Bergström, Catriona MacColl, Christine Böhm, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Niall O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Tony Luraschi,

A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.

Actors : György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Udo Kier, Gábor Koncz,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.

Actors : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Michelle Marquais, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Michel Drach,

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of ...

Actors : Vlasta Fabiánová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vladimír Mensík, Blazena Holisová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie (Hana Buresová) to ...

Actors : Zvonimir Crnko, Vladimir Popovic, Charles Millot, Ranko Kovacevic,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to ...

Actors : Luis Iriondo, Xabier Elorriaga, Marta Angelat, Montserrat Carulla,
Directors : Josep Maria Forn,

1939: The remains of the Spanish Republican Army crossed the French border. Among the exiles are Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and also Aguirre, President of ...

Actors : Rajinder Bilas, Billo, B.S. Badal, Kulwant Chawla,
Directors : Surjit Singh Sethi,

After Lahore-based Mir Mannu passes away in 18th century India, his widow, Mughlani Begum rejoices, celebrates her freedom, has many affairs with a variety of males (Qasim Khan, Mahmud Khan...

Actors : Manher Desai, Nalin Dave, Dhinu, Rajni Bala,
Directors : Chandrakant,

Bhagwan Shri Narad approaches Bhagwan Shri Shivji with a proposal to get married to Devi Maa Sati. Initially Shivji refuses but when he is told that even Bhagwans Brahmaji and Vishnuji have...

Actors : Hema Malini, Shreeram Lagoo, Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna,
Directors : Gulzar,

Circa Mughal rule in India, the Rajputs get together to discuss the ouster of Badshah Akbar, who is now the Emperor of Hindustan (India). Prominent amongst the Rajputs are Virendev Rathod, ...

Actors : Arati Das, Anjali Debi, Mita Chatterjee, Samar Kumar,
Directors : Shakti Chattopadhyay,

Meghnad Badh is a dramatic representation of a chapter from the Epic Mahabharata. It tells the story of the life and death of Ravan's son, great warrior Meghnad. The movie shows how Meghnad...

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Piotr Fronczewski, Tadeusz Plucinski, Tadeusz Borowski,
Directors : Roman Wionczek,

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ...

Actors : John Irving, Udayan Dixit, Rod Gilbert, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,

Three brothers from the Chapekar family plan and neutralize a tyrant British Commissioner on a backdrop of elements like Old Pune, the bubonic plague, the animosity between different castes.