Best War movies of 1970s

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Jacques Perrin, Helmut Griem, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

Actors : Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ljuba Tadic, Irene Papas,
Directors : Stipe Delic,

The Battle of Sutjeska known as ''Fifth offensive'' is the hardest, most tragic and the greatest battle that was led Yugoslav Partisans in World War II. Chaos, hell, fates, suffering, ...

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Henri Guybet, Pierre Tornade, Jean Lefebvre,
Directors : Robert Lamoureux,

French army's seventh company experiences severe setback during world war 2 when it gets separated from other members of the army.They disguise as army officers to escape death when they are caught by German soldiers.

Actors : Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Carmet, Jacques Spiesser,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they ...

Actors : Macha Magall, Xiro Papas, Edilio Kim, Gino Turini,
Directors : Luigi Batzella,

This is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities. A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, ...

Actors : James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.

Actors : Jan Murray, John Wood, Jerry Lewis, Steve Franken,
Directors : Jerry Lewis,

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's fight against Hitler. However, Byers is not the kind of man who takes "No" ...

Actors : Alain Cuny, Giampiero Albertini, Gian Maria Volontè, Mark Frechette,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.

Actors : Peter Carsten, Elke Sommer, Marius Goring, Michael York,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In 1915, frustrated with the German air-raids on London, British Intelligence sends Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, who has German ancestry, to Germany, to find information about the latest German Zeppelin.

Actors : Mari Csomós, Gyöngyi Bürös, 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 : Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, John Steiner, Leo McKern,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Maurice Biraud, Romy Schneider, Paul Amiot,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Vladan Holec, Dragan Nikolic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's ...

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Christine Pascal, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

France, 1719. Four years after Louix XIV's death, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XIV. Philippe is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an ...

Actors : Giovanna Mainardi, Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni,
Directors : Sergio Garrone,

Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.

Actors : Rüdiger Kirschstein, Marc Eyraud, Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.