Best War movies of 1970s

Actors : Abdur Razzak, Suchanda, Shaukat Akbar, Rosy Samad,
Directors : Zahir Raihan,

A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jerzy Golinski,
Directors : Andrzej Zulawski,

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ...

Actors : Pierre Mondy, Pierre Tornade, Henri Guybet, Jean Lefebvre,
Directors : Robert Lamoureux,

French army's seventh company experiences severe setback during world war 2 when it gets separated from other members of the army.They disguise as army officers to escape death when they are caught by German soldiers.

Actors : Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Stuart Burge,

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both ...

Actors : Jacques Dufilho, Jean Carmet, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they ...

Actors : Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques,
Directors : Fernando Arrabal,

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ljuba Tadic, Irene Papas,
Directors : Stipe Delic,

The Battle of Sutjeska known as ''Fifth offensive'' is the hardest, most tragic and the greatest battle that was led Yugoslav Partisans in World War II. Chaos, hell, fates, suffering, ...

Actors : James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

During WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.

Actors : Macha Magall, Xiro Papas, Edilio Kim, Gino Turini,
Directors : Luigi Batzella,

This is one of many so called Video Nasties about fictionalized World War 2 Nazi POW camp atrocities. A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Klaus Löwitsch, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.

Actors : Gyöngyi Bürös, Mari Csomós, Erzsi Cserhalmi, Andrea Drahota,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Actors : Bryan Brown, John Hargreaves, Graham Kennedy, John Jarratt,
Directors : Tom Jeffrey,

In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.

Actors : Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, John Steiner, Leo McKern,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the ...

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Dragan Nikolic, Vladan Holec, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic,
Directors : Aleksandar Djordjevic,

Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's ...

Actors : Jan Murray, John Wood, Jerry Lewis, Steve Franken,
Directors : Jerry Lewis,

Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's fight against Hitler. However, Byers is not the kind of man who takes "No" ...

Actors : Alain Cuny, Giampiero Albertini, Gian Maria Volontè, Mark Frechette,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.

Actors : Rüdiger Kirschstein, Marc Eyraud, Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Actors : Maristella Greco, Fulvio Ricciardi, Adriano Micantoni, Daniela Poggi,
Directors : Cesare Canevari,

Lise Cohen is taken to a special prisoner-of-war camp for female Jews, a camp run as a bordello to entertain the German officers and troops going in to battle. The camp is run with an iron ...

Actors : Giovanna Mainardi, Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni,
Directors : Sergio Garrone,

Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the Arian race.