Best World War II movies of 1970s

Actors : Jana Krupicková, Petr Cepek, Emma Cerná, Jan Vostrcil,
Directors : Frantisek Vlácil,

In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to ...

Actors : Edit Kelemen, Judit Halász, András Szamosfalvi, András Bálint,
Directors : István Szabó,

Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Richard Crenna, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : James Goldstone,

This is an excellent movie beginning for a young man growing up in Mobile with freedom of sailing and girls his age. His naval father goes off to war and relocates him to New Mexico where ...

Actors : John Heyl, William Roerick, Parker Stevenson, Peter Brush,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Gene and Finny are two boys who are best friends living in 1943, at the height of World War II. The idea that the boys will most likely be drafted when they turn eighteen is surrounding ...

Actors : Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang, Birte Tove, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.

Actors : Katherine Helmond, Glynnis O'Connor, Dana Elcar, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A young man joins the Marines during WWII but fails to meet qualifications so is washed out and sent home in a light blue uniform which apparently indicates his status. He meets a real war ...

Actors : Gino Franco, Peter Fonda, Harry Northup, Philip Carey,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

Actors : Nory Wright, John Ericson, Karen Ericson, Crystin Sinclaire,
Directors : Cesar Gallardo,

World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It's fortified and hard to attack, so a creative,...

Actors : Xavier Depraz, Roland Bertin, Laura Betti, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police ...

Actors : Tom Berenger, Helen Shaver, Karen Black, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : George Kaczender,

Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a ...

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Berger, John Huston,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

How World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

Actors : Lucien Guérin, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Philippe Vallois,

During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should ...

Actors : Ronald Allen, Elizabeth Shepherd, Reuven Bar-Yotam, James Franciscus,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.

Actors : John Collin, Martin Jarvis, Pinkas Braun, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : Walter Grauman,

The end of WW2. Allied forces enter a well-guarded German rocket base and kidnap among others the rocket scientist Dr. Von Heinken. When they try to get away they are followed both by ...

Actors : Jussi Jurkka, Joel Rinne, Kapo Manto, Tamara Lund,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

June 1944. The attention of the world is focused on Normandy, but the change of the tide can be felt in Finland also. Rumours of preparations of a massive Soviet attack in the Karelian ...

Actors : Bogdan Stupka, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Yuri Mikolajchuk,
Directors : Yuri Ilyenko,

Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ...

Actors : Robert Fontaine, Andongo Diabon, Michel Renaudeau, Ousmane Camara,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

As World War II is going on in Europe, a conflict arises between the French and the Diola-speaking tribe of Africa, prompting the village women to organize their men to sit beneath a tree to pray.

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 : Ryszard Filipski, Emil Karewicz, Tadeusz Janczar, Malgorzata Potocka,
Directors : Bohdan Poreba,

Based on a true story. After Poland is overrun by Axis forces in 1939, an officer and his remaining men decide to continue fighting the invaders alone, thereby becoming the first guerrillas of World War II.

Actors : Reine Bartève, Paul-Eric Shulmann, Joseph Goldenberg, Richard Constantini,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

Two young French Jewish boys and their family struggle to survive the WWII and the invasion of Germans.