Best History movies of 1977

Actors : Sean Connery, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Wazed Ali Shah was the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, had sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the...

Actors : László Csákányi, Péter Geszti, Gábor Agárdi, András Kern,
Directors : Attila Dargay,

Actors : Gila Almagor, Klaus Kinski, Assi Dayan, Yehoram Gaon,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to ...

Actors : Danilo Mattei, Giovannella Grifeo, Carmen Scarpitta, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ...

Actors : Vadim Glowna, Michel Galabru, Romy Schneider, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

The story follows the life of a regular German women Leni Gruyten during 1930s and 1940s. Through her interactions with friends, family and other people she knows, the regular folks' perception of the Nazi era is shown.

Actors : Mikhail Ulyanov, Evgeniy Leonov, Natalya Belokhvostikova, 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 : 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 : 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 : Victor Rebengiuc, Toma Caragiu, Stefan Sileanu, Vasile Nitulescu,
Directors : Constantin Vaeni,

At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.

Actors : Regis Cordic, Sándor Naszódy, Marvin Miller, Rod Colbin,
Directors : Michael Economou,

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

Actors : Susana Kamini, Pablo Corkidi, Gina Morett, Juan Barrón,
Directors : Rafael Corkidi,

The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and ...

Actors : Vasil Kakhniashvili, Imedo Kakhiani, Venera Neparidze, Berta Khapava,
Directors : Eldar Shengelaia,

Impoverished old nobleman Bekina insists on marrying a wife, but his son Platon does not want to have sharer in father's inheritance. Platon finds two times widowed and childless bride for Bekina, but a fate makes fun of him.

Actors : Carmen Roldán, Carles Velat, Amparo Soler Leal, Manuel Galiana,
Directors : Fernando Fernán Gómez,

Based in the novel Aurora de Sangre (Eduardo de Guzman) and in the real events happened during the II Spanish Republic. Aurora Rodriguez goes to police to assume the death of her daughter ...

Actors : Lee Henderson, Tony Haygarth, Roy Henderson, John Harvey,
Directors : Peter Ormrod,

Based on real life events which took place in Berkshire during the 1890s. It concerns the story of a young girl living in Sunninghill who was caught in the struggles between the drinking ...

Actors : Wilfried Gronau, Robert Romat,
Directors : Georg Brintrup,

A political film about the policy of the anabaptists of Münster (1534) and about the 'enemies of constitution' in West Germany (1976).

Actors : Fong Pau, Ching Lee, Hee Ching Paw, Tseng Chang,

The tragedy of great Chinese ancient poet Qu Yuan in Warring States period.

Actors : Ion Caramitru, Mircea Diaconu, Dan Nutu, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.