Best History movies of 1970s

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.

Actors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri, Nandamuri Bala Krishna, Unnimary, Gummadi,
Directors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri,

The story of Anarkali and Saleem retold.

Actors : Detlev Eckstein, Ulli Bauer, Sky du Mont, Raimund Harmstorf,
Directors : Wolfgang Liebeneiner,

Sir Gotz von Berlichingen, a knight who fights for God and his Emperor, is the bitter enemy of the Bishop of Bamberg, who has managed to persuade Gotz's old friend Adalbert of Weislingen to...

Actors : Mieko Harada, Chikako Yuri, Yûko Kotegawa, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Satsuo Yamamoto,

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900's in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The...

Actors : Sunder, Dara Singh, Satish Kaul, Bharat Bhushan,
Directors : Dara Singh,

The epic saga of Sherawali Mata's devotee, Dhyanu Bhagat, and his trials, tribulations, and triumphs. Also features the historic and memorable visit of Akbar Badshah, who traveled barefoot ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Saddam Kamel, Ibrahim Jalai, Nada Siham, Mohsin al-Azzawi,

In 1959 underground revolutionaries try to assassinate Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Kassem in Baghdad. News reports claim they have failed, and at first the revolutionaries lay low, but as ...

Actors : Christian Grashof, Erwin Geschonneck, Katja Paryla, Ilonka Ilieva,
Directors : Horst Seemann,

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans and Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. Johann, the rich owner of a large mill, does not want the Jew, Levin, to ...

Actors : Petre Arsovski, Sisman Angelovski, Dusan Kostovski, Nenad Milosavljevic,
Directors : Branko Gapo,

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a ...

Actors : Zygmunt Bielawski, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Filip Bajon,

The story deals with the famous incident that occurred in schoolroom of Wrzesnia, near Prussian-Russian border of partitioned Poland, in 1901. The issue is the teaching of religion in ...

Actors : Jolanta Grusznic, Piotr Lysak, Gabriela Kownacka, Andrzej Lapicki,

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but ...

Actors : Petar Kralj, Gojko Santic, Ljuba Tadic, Lazar Ristovski,
Directors : Eduard Galic,

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social ...

Actors : Constantin Codrescu, Cornel Ciupercescu, Vlad Radescu, Silviu Stanculescu,
Directors : Mircea Moldovan,

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.

Actors : Ryszard Filipski, Andrzej Hrydzewicz, Jerzy Sagan, Ignacy Gogolewski,
Directors : Ryszard Filipski,

Reconstruction of dramatic events in Poland between years 1926 and 1933, when Marshall Pilsudski took the reins of power into his own hands.

Actors : Gogi Gegechkori, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Salome Kancheli,

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Actors : Virgílio Massinge, José Gomes,
Directors : Fernando Matos Silva,

A dialogue between History and a Guerrilla Movement, interlaced with live footage taken in Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, when this country was the colony of the first.