Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Yasuo Miyake, Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Kurano, Tadahiko Sugano,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, John McEnery, Ray Lovelock, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Antonio Calenda,

Based on Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.

Actors : Anton Diffring, Lukas Ammann, Erika Blanc, Percy Hoven,
Directors : Adrian Hoven,

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

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 : 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 : Károly Kovács, Lucyna Winnicka, András Bálint, Margit Makay,
Directors : István Szabó,

Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of it's destruction.

Actors : Anatoliy Papanov, Lyudmila Maksakova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Oleg Dal,
Directors : Iosif Kheifits,

Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing...

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Shima Iwashita, 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 : 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 : Giancarlo Giannini, Tina Aumont, Fernando Rey, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, ...

Actors : Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Firouz Behjat-Mohamadi,
Directors : Bahman Farmanara,

Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of...

Actors : Nikiforos Naneris, Spyros Kalogirou, Christos Tsagas, Nikos Kourkoulos,
Directors : Panos Glykofrydis,

A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Irfan Mensur, Florinda Bolkan, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

Historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. A World War would...

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

The story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Roy Chiao, Ying Bai, Chia-Hsiang Wu, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

The emperor dispatches an officer and a small band of men to deal with pirates.

Actors : Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Pavle Vuisic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic,
Directors : Vatroslav Mimica,

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to ...

Actors : Bhatti Mahadevappa, Manjula, Balkrishna, Ashwath,
Directors : Vijay,

The movie presents the story of a saintly boy who realises his royal connections and his return to his rightful place

Actors : André Mélançon, Jacques Thisdale, Rachel Cailhier, Serge L'Italien,
Directors : Clément Perron,

In 1942 even after a formal promise from the Liberal Party of Canada in the last election: "Never the Conscription", the Canadian Government vote a Conscription Law. In Quebec where the ...

Actors : Claudio Obregón, Gian Maria Volontè, Eduardo López Rojas, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Miguel Littin,

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

Actors : Analía Gadé, Ángela Molina, Ismael Merlo, Vicente Parra,
Directors : Jaime Camino,

In the summer of 1936, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, a bourgeois family with many children, spending their holiday near Barcelona, tries to remain neutral between the Republicans and the supporters of General Franco.