Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Andrei Popov, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Daniil Khrabrovitsky,

About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.

Actors : Vasilis Kolovos, Nikos Kapios, Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas,
Directors : Nikos Koundouros,

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing ...

Actors : Vlasta Fabiánová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vladimír Mensík, Blazena Holisová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie (Hana Buresová) to ...

Actors : Antanas Surna, Algimantas Masiulis, Eugenija Pleskyte, Stasis Petronaitis,
Directors : Marijonas Giedrys,

Historical costume drama about the medieval wars of Old Prussians and Teutonic Crusaders. Hercus Monte (Latin: Henricus Montemin, German: Heinrich Monte, Lithuanian: Herkus Mantas) was the ...

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 : Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirô Mifune, Hisaya Morishige, Teruhiko Aoi,
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 : 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 : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

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

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

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 : Massimo Ranieri, Frank Wolff, Ottavia Piccolo, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th ...

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.

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 : Ossi Aronen, Asser Fagerström, Lauri Arajuuri, Olavi Ahonen,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

Rhapsodic story from a small Finnish town in the 1920s. The wounds of the civil war in 1918 are not yet fully healed. The current ban legislation on alcohol triggers a diligently moon-shining.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Ruggero Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius...