Best History movies of 1970s

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick McGoohan, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Lom, Udo Kier,

Udo Kier is a witch hunter apprentice to Herbert Lom. He believes strongly in his mentor and the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom committing a crime. Kier slowly ...

Actors : Michel Vitold, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. ...

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Stratos Pahis, Aliki Georgouli,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

Greece 1939 - 1952 Fascist, Nazi, Communist conflict as seen through a family of travelling provincial players

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 : 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 : Daniel Olbrychski, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Malgorzata Braunek,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town....

Actors : Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice,
Directors : Don Sharp,

In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.

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 : Stefania Sandrelli, Beba Loncar, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Actors : Jeannette Clift, Robert Rietty, Arthur O'Connell, Julie Harris,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...

Actors : Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In 1942, Britain sends a group of British-trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services.

Actors : Alan Bates, Malcolm McDowell, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Richard Lester,

Ne'er-do-well Harry Flashman is coerced by Otto von Bismark into impersonating a prince.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Jacques Perrin, Helmut Griem, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Valerio Zurlini,

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

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

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 : Oleg Tabakov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov, Yuriy Bogatyryov,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' ...