Best Biography movies of 1970s

Actors : Valeria Sabel, Luigi Vannucchi, Dominique Darel, Rita Calderoni,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.

Actors : Juraj Kukura, Bozidara Turzonovová, Gabriela Benacková, Jirí Adamíra,
Directors : Jirí Krejcík,

The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová (Bozidara Turzonovová) is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia. As an ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Shashi Kapoor, Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

This is a BBC documentary made on Rajesh Khanna, who had become a phenomenon of Indian cinema and his immense popularity had earned him the title of Superstar.

Actors : Arthur Kennedy, June Dayton, Robert Vaughn, Martha Scott,
Directors : Jack Smight,

Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.

Actors : Fiona Fullerton, Alan Dobie, Harry Andrews, Annette Crosbie,
Directors : Colin Nears,

The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.

Actors : Victor Holchak, Lindsay Bloom, Charles Aidikoff, David McLean,
Directors : Larry Buchanan,

When maverick first-time director Howard Hughes has to recast the female lead in his aerial war picture Hell's Angels (1930), he chooses a fiery, unknown movie extra named Jean Harlow, launching both of their Hollywood careers in the process.

Actors : Iurie Darie, Irina Gardescu, Alexandru Repan, Ioana Bulca,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

After 20 years in Ottoman Constantinople, Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir completes the written history of the Ottoman Empire and is crowned King of Moldavia in 1710 but his valuable manuscript is stolen by foreign agents.

Actors : Helmut Käutner, Käthe Gold, Attila Hörbiger, Kristina Söderbaum,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

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 ...