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1970s Historical Movies

Public list by WPS with 69 movies or TV shows/series

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The First Great Train Robbery(1978)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 145 votes)

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

Death on the Nile(1978)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 20min | Mystery
3.6/5 (with 319 votes)

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Midway(1976)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 12min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 120 votes)

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

Chisum(1970)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 51min | Western
3.4/5 (with 75 votes)

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Ludwig(1973)

FSK: 12+ years
| 3h 58min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 60 votes)

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 Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

The Hunting Party(1971)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 51min | Action, Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

Zulu Dawn(1979)

1h 57min | Adventure, Drama, History, War
3.0/5 (with 45 votes)

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

One Sings, the Other Doesn't(1977)

2h | Drama, Music
3.7/5 (with 36 votes)

In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a middle-class city girl, at odds with her very conventional family. Suzanne is several years older, a country girl with two illegitimate children and another (whom she cannot support) on the way. Pauline loans Suzanne money for an abortion. At this point, the two separate and communicate mainly through postcards. Some years later, they meet at an abortion rally, and they have many adventures and stories to share with one another.

Directed by Agnès Varda - With Francis Lemaire, François Wertheimer, Gisèle Halimi, Marion Hänsel, Mathieu Demy, Thérèse Liotard, ...

The Last Hard Men(1976)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 38min | Western
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yuma Territorial Prison and come gunning for Burgade.

Young Winston(1972)

2h 29min | Action, Adventure, Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

The Thirty Nine Steps(1978)

1h 42min | Mystery
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...

Flavia the Heretic(1974)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 36min | Drama, Horror
3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

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The Devil(1988)

2h 5min | Horror, Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 32 votes)

Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.

Ned Kelly(1970)

1h 46min | Drama, Action, Western
2.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

Julius Caesar(1970)

1h 57min | War, Drama, History
2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

Let Joy Reign Supreme(1975)

1h 54min | War, History, Drama
3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion lead by a Breton squire (Pontallec) and of the famine to become archbishop... Description of the life of the court in this period of transition where the French Revolution smoulders.

Treasure Island(1972)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

Black Snake(1973)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 22min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.

Savage Messiah(1972)

1h 43min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”.

Michael the Brave(1971)

3h 23min | War, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.

Joseph Andrews(1977)

2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

Henry VIII and His Six Wives(1972)

2h | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.

Guyana: Crime of the Century(1979)

1h 47min | Drama, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. When Jim Jones becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana, where he plans to create a utopia. But Jim Jones' utopia consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, one that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. Ultimately, Jim Jones' paranoia reaches a fevered pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against his own congregation. (VCI Home Video)

The Guerrilla(1973)

1h 29min | Drama, History

Adaptation of the text of Azorin theater play. In 1808, Napoleon's troops invaded a village in the Sierra de Madrid. Love triangle between a girl, guerrilla leader and French officer who falls in love with the girl.

Touha Sherlocka Holmese(1972)

1h 37min | Comedy, Crime

Sherlock Holmes likes to play violin and expects a great career in music. He gets a place in a spa orchestra, but he is again and again distracted by criminal cases. Therefore he is the only one who does not see that his violin has no future. He solves the criminal mysteries in passing but the final test shows that the famous detective is tone-deaf.

The Assassination of Ryoma(1974)

1h 58min | Drama, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).

The Winds of Autumn(1976)

1h 40min | Western
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.

Directed by Charles B. Pierce

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death(1972)

1h 43min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.

Passion(1977)

1h 50min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

1846. Edward Dembowski takes part in the Krakow Uprising.

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