Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Ron Ely, Jürgen Goslar, Britt Ekland, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Jürgen Goslar,

As the slave trade is dwindling in East Africa in the late 19th century, two competing slave traders start a brutal violent conflict between each other for the monopoly on the remaining profits.

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 : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Michelle Marquais, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Michel Drach,

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of ...

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Glenda Jackson, Michael Jayston, Peter Finch,
Directors : James Cellan Jones,

Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton. With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelson's stature and notes his feet of clay. And yet, Nelson is a ...

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Teruhiko Aoi, Hisaya Morishige,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve...

Actors : Augusto Kretschmar, Osvaldo De la Vega, Pablo Cumo, Rodolfo Bebán,
Directors : Leonardo Favio,

In the late nineteenth century, the mule driver Juan Moreira is a good gaucho and worker who, like many others, is subjected to abuse and humiliation by the powerful, either the police or landowners.

Actors : Paul Rogers, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack, Peter Finch,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church. Today, she is mostly known for the rumors that she was lesbian.

Actors : Mita Ungaro, Carlos de Carvalho, Pier Maria Rossi, Fausto Di Bella,
Directors : Roberto Rossellini,

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Djoko Rosic, György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Dezsö Garas,
Directors : Tamás Rényi,

Actors : Romolo Valli, Adriano Celentano, Vittorio Caprioli, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Sergio Corbucci,

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Igor Dmitriev, Vladimir Tatosov, Margarita Terekhova,

The story of the formation of the Finnish Republic and its independence from Russia.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Evgeniy Leonov, Lembit Ulfsak,

A story of two orphans growing up in Flemish town at the time of witch-hunts, fear and ever present chance to get caught and been tortured and killed with or without a reason.

Actors : Constantin Codrescu, Mircea Albulescu, Mircea Anghelescu, Ilarion Ciobanu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Yefim Kopelyan, Petr Shelokhonov, Mikhail Kokshenov,
Directors : Viktor Tregubovich,

Epic about Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria. Cossacks are living in their village like one big family under the guidance of a strong leader - Ataman.

Actors : Eduards Pavuls, Helga Dancberga, Regina Razuma, Gunars Cilinskis,
Directors : Rolands Kalnins,

Action takes place in Latvia in 1920-thies. Entrepreneurial Edgar Ceplis establish joint-stock company, to produce and export clay bricks. He attracts to project many investors in the hope ...

Actors : John Ahlgren, Ernst Günther, Georg Adelly, Per Oscarsson,
Directors : Per Oscarsson,

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Valentina Cortese, Dominique Sanda, John Moulder-Brown,
Directors : Maximilian Schell,

Based on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the ...

Actors : Manuchehr Farid, Parvaneh Massoumi, Anik Shefrazian, Hossein Parvaresh,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

When Mr. Esalat is looking for a topic for his TV show, he notices an advertisement in the newspaper about a missing girl. The picture of the missing girl is very familiar to him and he ...

Actors : Henryk Bista, Czeslaw Byszewski, Marek Walczewski, Zdzislaw Mrozewski,
Directors : Jerzy Kawalerowicz,

Set at the historic moment of rebirth of Poland after World War I. The newly organized National Assembly elected Gabriel Narutowicz, a professor returning home from Switzerland to enter ...