Best War movies of 1972

Actors : Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Ronald Hines, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : Neda Spasojevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

A man who tried to stop Nazi soldiers in World War II.

Actors : Gyöngyi Bürös, Mari Csomós, Erzsi Cserhalmi, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Actors : Cristian Sofron, Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Actors : Anthony May, Brian Deacon, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection; liking the female role he goes to a dance with another soldier and is exposed.

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi, Sachiko Hidari, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.

Actors : Jacques Canselier, Philippe Léotard, Alexandre Arcady, Hamid Djellouli,
Directors : René Vautier,

How to become a killing machine in Algeria when, at the start, you are a Pacifist Breton. Let Lieutenant Perrin deal with this bunch of rebels and make them "true soldiers", who know how to...

Actors : Viera Strnisková, Július Vasek, Václav Helsus, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

Towards the end of 1942 a young prisoner Maruska (Magda Vásáryová) awaits in her cell in prison in Breslau (after war Polish Wroclaw) her execution. After death sentence it was ninety nine ...

Actors : Boris Tokarev, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Vadim Spiridonov,
Directors : Gavriil Egiazarov,

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova ...

Actors : George Lazenby, Ben Carruthers, Robin Hunter, Rudolph Walker,
Directors : Cy Endfield,

A lifelong mercenary commander and weapons expert played by George Lazenby is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he...

Actors : Pavel Luspekayev, Georgiy Kolosov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Mikhail Khrabrov,
Directors : Viktor Okuntsov,

A man is traveling all over the world and making monuments to victims of all wars, because he is unable to find his own son, who was lost in the WWII.

Actors : Toni Laurencic, Antun Nalis, Miha Baloh, Zarko Radic,
Directors : Vojdrag Bercic,

A Partisan unit goes into battle with the enemy twice stronger, somehow resists detachment to attack deep into the night, where the fraud are captured combatants from all units and thrown ...

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Kazuo Kitamura, Kôji Moritsugu, Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Directors : Tadashi Imai,

Nishiyama (Atsumi) is the only one to survive in his platoon in WWII Japan. After the war is over, he begins a long voyage of 8 years throughout Japan to deliver 12 letters left by his ...

Actors : Mihajlo Kostic-Pljaka, Ljudmila Lisina, Nikola Simic, Mihailo 'Misa' Janketic,
Directors : Dragovan Jovanovic,

The relationship between a boy and a girl shortly after the start of the war and the arrival of the Germans. He goes to Chetniks, and there he disappears without a trace, and she ,after ...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragomir Felba, Mira Stupica, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Branimir Tori Jankovic,

When a warrior dies, a star is born, a company of us die when born to a group of stars. Small children are fascinated by ancient legends and stories of old people, people replace their ...

Actors : Ute Illmann, Lutz Fremde, Horst Schulze, Lyudmila Kasyanova,
Directors : Günter Reisch,

Biographical war drama about the life of German socialist Karl Liebknecht.

Actors : Lally Bowers, Lance Percival, Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks,
Directors : Bob Kellett,

Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He mustn't break his character until he reaches safety.

Actors : Dimitris Bislanis, Giorgos Bartis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Giannis Voglis,
Directors : Kostas Andritsos,

Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an ...

Actors : Ints Burans, Lina Braknyte, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Valentin Zubkov,
Directors : Vasile Brescanu,

Four soldiers of different nationalities serve in small garrison on the territory of post-war Germany.