Best History movies of 1973

Actors : Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.

Actors : Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Trevor Howard, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Gilbert Green, Will Geer,
Directors : David Miller,

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Diane Cilento, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Ennio De Concini,

A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.

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 : Reha Yurdakul, Kazim Kartal, Cüneyt Arkin, Birsen Ayda,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

After his family is killed in front of his eyes, little Seyit Battal grows up to be the nightmare of Byzantine's Black Knighthood.

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Mathieu Carrière, Renato Scarpa, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, ...

Actors : Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Yelena Samarina, Lou Castel,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older ...

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Halit Akçatepe, Kartal Tibet, Hakki Kosar,
Directors : Mehmet Aslan,

Attila the Hun, to add power to power, assigns Tarkan to seize the Golden Sword in China land. In order to do that, he must defeat Wang Yu.

Actors : Marcel Cuvelier, Philippe Léotard, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Claude Jutra,

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska ...

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, Michael Jayston, Glenda Jackson, 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 : Barbara Hershey, Ralph Meeker, Ward de Ravet, Sandy van der Linden,
Directors : Nikolai van der Heyde,

An American returns to his native Dutch village in the nineteen thirties and causes a sensation there. When his pregnant daughter starts an affair with the son of the local cheese-factory ...

Actors : Shivaji Ganesan, Varalakshmi S.,
Directors : A.P. Nagarajan,

Emperor Raja Raja Chozan seems to count a little too much on his newly-appointed, deceptive minister. But he knows what he is doing.

Actors : Helena Rojo, Mario Almada, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Julián Pastor,

Benito Juárez' fight during the 'National Decade' (1857-1867) against conservatives and French Intervention.