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1970s War Movies

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom(1976)

1h 57min | Drama, Horror
3.2/5 (with 913 votes)

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Escape to Athena(1979)

PG
| 2h 5min | Adventure, Comedy, War
2.8/5 (with 42 votes)

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

Midway(1976)

PG
| 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.

Patton(1970)

PG
| 2h 52min | War, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 449 votes)

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

The Eagle Has Landed(1976)

PG
| 2h 15min | Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller, War
3.3/5 (with 129 votes)

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.

Kelly's Heroes(1970)

PG
| 2h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, War
3.7/5 (with 296 votes)

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

Force 10 from Navarone(1978)

PG
| 1h 58min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.1/5 (with 119 votes)

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

Tora! Tora! Tora!(1970)

G
| 2h 24min | Drama, History, War
3.6/5 (with 230 votes)

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Zulu Dawn(1979)

PG
| 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.

MacArthur(1977)

PG
| 2h 10min | Drama, History, War
3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

The film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

The Wind and the Lion(1975)

PG
| 1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 68 votes)

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

March or Die(1977)

PG
| 1h 47min | Drama, Adventure, War
2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government….

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Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?(1973)

1h 35min | Comedy, War
3.7/5 (with 146 votes)

1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.

The Old Gun(1975)

1h 43min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 91 votes)

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

Breakthrough(1979)

PG
| 1h 51min | Drama, History, War
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.

Lacombe, Lucien(1974)

2h 18min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 52 votes)

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Too Late the Hero(1970)

PG
| 2h 25min | Drama, Action, War
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle(1973)

G
| 1h 32min | War, Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

They Fought for Their Motherland(1975)

2h 17min | War, History
3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

The Battle of Okinawa(1971)

2h 29min | War, History
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.

Young Winston(1972)

PG
| 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.

Julius Caesar(1970)

G
| 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.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)

PG
| 1h 46min | Drama, War, History
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.

The McKenzie Break(1970)

PG
| 1h 48min | Action, War
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

A German U-Boat commander and 600 prisoners plan a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

The Third Part of the Night(1971)

1h 42min | Drama, Horror
3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.

Siberiade(1979)

3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

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 happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.

Von Richthofen and Brown(1971)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | War, Drama, Action
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.

Officers(1971)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.

Operation: Daybreak(1975)

PG
| 1h 58min | Action, War
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Figures in a Landscape(1970)

R
| 1h 50min | Thriller, Action
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.

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