Best Biography movies of 1970s

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 : Alan Bates, Alan Badel, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier...

Actors : Evert Anderson, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Thommy Berggren,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.

Actors : Richard Burton, Valentina Cortese, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an ...

Actors : Renato Romano, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Carol Kane, Michelle Phillips, Rudolf Nureyev,
Directors : Ken Russell,

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide - that actor was Rudolph Valentino. ...

Actors : Cleavon Little, Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Michael Schultz,

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Lloyd Haynes, John Marley, Muhammad Ali,
Directors : Tom Gries,

Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of ...

Actors : Peter Kern, Heinz Schubert, Rainer von Artenfels, Hellmut Lange,
Directors : Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,

Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ...

Actors : Ray Barrett, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor, Tommy Lewis,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

Actors : Jacqueline Giroux, Erik Estrada, Jo-Ann Robinson, Pat Boone,
Directors : Don Murray,

Crusading minister gets involved in the lives of members of a New York street gang.

Actors : Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Ken Goodlet, Mark McManus, Mick Jagger,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback, he turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw ...

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Lindsay Kemp, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

Actors : Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Stephen Archibald, Karl Fieseler,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the ...

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Charles Cioffi, Gian Maria Volontè, Silverio Blasi,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Robert DoQui, Luke Askew, John Davis Chandler,
Directors : Earl Bellamy,

Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.

Actors : Orson Welles, Strother Martin, Petar Bozovic, Oja Kodar,
Directors : Krsto Papic,

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

Actors : Maria Schell, Christopher Lee, Hans Hass Jr., Leo Genn,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of 17th century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.