Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Graham Faulkner, Kenneth Cranham, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Actors : Cicely Browne, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarpitta, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Sven-Olof Bern, Max von Sydow, Eddie Axberg,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. ...

Actors : James Mason, Perry King, Richard Ward, Susan George,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

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 : Jovan Jovanovic, Ninetto Davoli, Vincenzo Amato, Franco Citti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

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 : 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 : Richard Harris, Dorothy Tutin, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Joseph Blatchley, Bruce Robinson, Isabelle Adjani, Sylvia Marriott,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...

Actors : Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather...

Actors : Alice Sapritch, Louis de Funès, Karin Schubert, Yves Montand,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, George C. Scott,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, 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 : Stacy Keach, David Carradine, Ned Beatty, Charlton Heston,
Directors : David Greene,

A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.

Actors : Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever ...

Actors : Gene Wilder, Jack MacGowran, Hugh Griffith, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

Two mismatched sets of identical twins - one aristocrat, one peasant - mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.