Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Ion Caramitru, Mircea Diaconu, Dan Nutu, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

Actors : Arthur Dignam, Judy Morris, Günter Meisner, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Michael Thornhill,

This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residence at Callan Park Asylum. The film ...

Actors : Horst Drinda, Horst Schulze, Barbara Adolph, Irma Münch,
Directors : Horst E. Brandt,

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.

Actors : Igli Villani, Ira von Fürstenberg, Sydney Chaplin, Fred Robsahm,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of ...

Actors : Sara Kestelman, Andrew McFarlane, John Bell, Ingrid Mason,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.

Actors : Nikos Apergis, Lakis Komninos, Ketty Papanika, Giannis Argyris,
Directors : Filippos Fylaktos,

The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. ...

Actors : Dara Singh, Satish Kaul, Komilla Wirk, Bharat Bhushan,
Directors : Dara Singh,

Abandoned at birth, Dhyanu Bhagat performs miracles but faces challenges from Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Actors : Katia Dandoulaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Alekos Alexandrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou,
Directors : Dimis Dadiras,

The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the ...

Actors : Aynur Aydan, Tugay Toksöz, Fatma Girik, Ramazan Akboga,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Based on the life of female Muslim saint Rabia Basri.

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Elio Marconato, Stefano Satta Flores, Giulio Brogi,
Directors : Ennio Lorenzini,

Historical drama that deals with Carlo Pisacane's revolutionary campaign in southern Italy during the Risorgimento.

Actors : Jaroslav Radimecky, Bohus Pastorek, Jirí Pleskot, Gunnar Möller,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the ...

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 : Renji Ishibashi, Rie Nakagawa, Yoshio Harada, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Kazuo Kuroki,

The last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate.

Actors : Domitila de Chungara, Eusebio Gironda, Federico Vallejo, Felicidad Coca García,
Directors : Jorge Sanjinés,

A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.

Actors : Fong Pau, Ching Lee, Hee Ching Paw, Tseng Chang,

The tragedy of great Chinese ancient poet Qu Yuan in Warring States period.

Actors : Micha Gabay, Lasse Kolstad, Frits Helmuth, Ingerid Vardund,
Directors : Sverre Udnæs,

This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence ...

Actors : Dusan Janicijevic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljerka Drazenovic,
Directors : Djordje Kadijevic,

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience ...

Actors : Gloria Carlin, Chris Wiggins, Stacy Keach, Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Directors : Lionel Chetwynd,

The story of the problems caused by what became known as the Conscripton Crisis in 1917 Canada, which threatened to divide the country.

Actors : Vandana Pandit, Rajani Chavan, Mohan Agashe, Om Puri,

This was the first movie made by this group (see Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), a collective effort in direction and cinematography. The story tells the tale of Nanasaheb Phadnavis, ...

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.