Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Katia Dandoulaki, Dimitris Papamichael, Alekos Alexandrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou,
Directors : Dimis Dadiras,

The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the ...

Actors : Tito Junco, Aarón Hernán, Bruno Rey, Juan Ángel Martínez,
Directors : Gabriel Retes,

A story of a priest set in the 16th century Mexico who converted the local pagan population to Christianity by making a statue of Virgin Mary resembling a native woman.

Actors : Gloria Carlin, Chris Wiggins, Stacy Keach, Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Directors : Lionel Chetwynd,

The story of the problems caused by what became known as the Conscripton Crisis in 1917 Canada, which threatened to divide the country.

Actors : Jaroslav Radimecky, Bohus Pastorek, Jirí Pleskot, Gunnar Möller,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the ...

Actors : Aynur Aydan, Tugay Toksöz, Fatma Girik, Ramazan Akboga,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Based on the life of female Muslim saint Rabia Basri.

Actors : Manher Desai, Nalin Dave, Dhinu, Rajni Bala,
Directors : Chandrakant,

Bhagwan Shri Narad approaches Bhagwan Shri Shivji with a proposal to get married to Devi Maa Sati. Initially Shivji refuses but when he is told that even Bhagwans Brahmaji and Vishnuji have...

Actors : Helmut Käutner, Käthe Gold, Attila Hörbiger, Kristina Söderbaum,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Elio Marconato, Giulio Brogi, Stefano Satta Flores,
Directors : Ennio Lorenzini,

Historical drama that deals with Carlo Pisacane's revolutionary campaign in southern Italy during the Risorgimento.

Actors : Igli Villani, Ira von Fürstenberg, Fred Robsahm, Sydney Chaplin,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of ...

Actors : Vandana Pandit, Rajani Chavan, Mohan Agashe, Om Puri,

This was the first movie made by this group (see Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), a collective effort in direction and cinematography. The story tells the tale of Nanasaheb Phadnavis, ...

Actors : Domitila de Chungara, Eusebio Gironda, Federico Vallejo, Felicidad Coca García,
Directors : Jorge Sanjinés,

A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners and their families at the Siglo XX Mines in 1967 in Bolivia.

Actors : Horst Drinda, Horst Schulze, Barbara Adolph, Irma Münch,
Directors : Horst E. Brandt,

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.

Actors : Andrew McFarlane, Sara Kestelman, John Bell, Ingrid Mason,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.

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

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

Actors : Arati Das, Anjali Debi, Mita Chatterjee, Samar Kumar,
Directors : Shakti Chattopadhyay,

Meghnad Badh is a dramatic representation of a chapter from the Epic Mahabharata. It tells the story of the life and death of Ravan's son, great warrior Meghnad. The movie shows how Meghnad...

Actors : Nikos Apergis, Lakis Komninos, Ketty Papanika, Giannis Argyris,
Directors : Filippos Fylaktos,

The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. ...

Actors : Renji Ishibashi, Rie Nakagawa, Yoshio Harada, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Kazuo Kuroki,

The last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate.

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 : 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.

Actors : Dusan Janicijevic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljerka Drazenovic,
Directors : Djordje Kadijevic,

Set just before the end of WWI on the abandoned farm in Vojvodina, the story follows the wife of an Austo-Hungarian colonel of a battered battalion who pays him a visit, only to experience ...