Best History movies of 1979

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy,

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, Simon Ward,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : Vitali Solomin, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of ...

Actors : Teofil Vâlcu, Emanoil Petrut, Ernest Maftei, Stefan Sileanu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Actors : Jonas Bergström, Catriona MacColl, Christine Böhm, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Jacques Demy,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Adel Imam, Said Abdel Ghani, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

Actors : Zvonimir Crnko, Vladimir Popovic, Charles Millot, Ranko Kovacevic,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to ...

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Niall O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Tony Luraschi,

A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.

Actors : György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Udo Kier, Gábor Koncz,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.

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 : 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 : Hema Malini, Shammi Kapoor, Shreeram Lagoo, Vinod Khanna,
Directors : Gulzar,

Circa Mughal rule in India, the Rajputs get together to discuss the ouster of Badshah Akbar, who is now the Emperor of Hindustan (India). Prominent amongst the Rajputs are Virendev Rathod, ...

Actors : John Irving, Udayan Dixit, Rod Gilbert, Sadashiv Amrapurkar,

Three brothers from the Chapekar family plan and neutralize a tyrant British Commissioner on a backdrop of elements like Old Pune, the bubonic plague, the animosity between different castes.

Actors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri, Nandamuri Bala Krishna, Unnimary, Gummadi,
Directors : Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri,

The story of Anarkali and Saleem retold.

Actors : Detlev Eckstein, Ulli Bauer, Sky du Mont, Raimund Harmstorf,
Directors : Wolfgang Liebeneiner,

Sir Gotz von Berlichingen, a knight who fights for God and his Emperor, is the bitter enemy of the Bishop of Bamberg, who has managed to persuade Gotz's old friend Adalbert of Weislingen to...

Actors : Mieko Harada, Chikako Yuri, Yûko Kotegawa, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Satsuo Yamamoto,

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900's in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The...

Actors : Sunder, Dara Singh, Satish Kaul, Bharat Bhushan,
Directors : Dara Singh,

The epic saga of Sherawali Mata's devotee, Dhyanu Bhagat, and his trials, tribulations, and triumphs. Also features the historic and memorable visit of Akbar Badshah, who traveled barefoot ...

Actors : Piotr Garlicki, Piotr Fronczewski, Tadeusz Plucinski, Tadeusz Borowski,
Directors : Roman Wionczek,

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage ...