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List of World War II Films in the 70`s

by ferreiracarlos1504 • Created 13 years ago • Modified 12 years ago
List of fiction feature films that present events of World War II in the narrative made ​​in the 70's ..
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  • Patton (1970)

    1. Patton

    19702h 52mPG86Metascore
    7.9 (111K)
    The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen Young
  • Hell Boats (1970)

    2. Hell Boats

    19701h 35mPG-13
    5.5 (580)
    An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.
    DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames FranciscusElizabeth ShepherdRonald Allen
  • Hornets' Nest (1970)

    3. Hornets' Nest

    19701h 50mR
    5.8 (1.2K)
    In 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
    DirectorsPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio Fantoni
  • The Last Escape (1970)

    4. The Last Escape

    19701h 30mG
    5.1 (322)
    During the final days of World War II, an Allied commando team races toward a German rocket base to abduct a German scientist before the quickly advancing Soviet troops can reach him.
    DirectorWalter GraumanStarsStuart WhitmanJohn CollinMartin Jarvis
  • Michael Caine, Lance Percival, and Cliff Robertson in Too Late the Hero (1970)

    5. Too Late the Hero

    19702h 25mPG
    6.6 (4.2K)
    A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.
    DirectorRobert AldrichStarsMichael CaineCliff RobertsonIan Bannen
  • Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Jason Robards, E.G. Marshall, Tatsuya Mihashi, Koreya Senda, Takahiro Tamura, Eijirô Tôno, James Whitmore, and Sô Yamamura in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

    6. Tora! Tora! Tora!

    19702h 24mG46Metascore
    7.5 (39K)
    The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
    DirectorsRichard FleischerKinji FukasakuToshio MasudaStarsMartin BalsamSô YamamuraJason Robards
  • Peter O'Toole in Murphy's War (1971)

    7. Murphy's War

    19711h 47mPG-13
    6.7 (4.2K)
    A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.
    DirectorPeter YatesStarsPeter O'TooleSiân PhillipsPhilippe Noiret
  • Raid on Rommel (1971)

    8. Raid on Rommel

    19711h 39mGP
    5.4 (2.5K)
    In 1942, in Libya, a German-speaking British intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.
    DirectorHenry HathawayStarsRichard BurtonJohn ColicosClinton Greyn
  • Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

    9. Hitler: The Last Ten Days

    19731h 48mPG
    6.5 (2K)
    A dramatization based on eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.
    DirectorEnnio De ConciniStarsAlec GuinnessSimon WardAdolfo Celi
  • Romy Schneider and Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Last Train (1973)

    10. The Last Train

    19731h 35mPG
    6.9 (1.8K)
    Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
    DirectorPierre Granier-DeferreStarsJean-Louis TrintignantRomy SchneiderMaurice Biraud
  • Massacre in Rome (1973)

    11. Massacre in Rome

    19731h 50mPG
    6.5 (1.6K)
    Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
    DirectorGeorge P. CosmatosStarsRichard BurtonMarcello MastroianniLeo McKern
  • Pierre Blaise and Aurore Clément in Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

    12. Lacombe, Lucien

    19742h 18mR
    7.6 (8.1K)
    In 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsPierre BlaiseAurore ClémentHolger Löwenadler
  • Christine Pascal and Christian Rist in Black Thursday (1974)

    13. Black Thursday

    19741h 32mPG
    6.3 (190)
    Paris, 16 July, 1942. Paul, an idealist student, tries to save some people from the huge "Vel d'Hiv Roundup" by police and gendarmes of over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants for deportation to Auschwitz. There he meets one young woman, Jeanne.
    DirectorMichel MitraniStarsChristian RistChristine PascalJudith Magre
  • Operation Daybreak (1975)

    14. Operation Daybreak

    19751h 58mPG
    7.0 (2.5K)
    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.
    DirectorLewis GilbertStarsTimothy BottomsMartin ShawJoss Ackland
  • Special Section (1975)

    15. Special Section

    19751h 50mPG
    7.6 (1.8K)
    In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
    DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsLouis SeignerRoland BertinMichael Lonsdale
  • Overlord (1975)

    16. Overlord

    19751h 23mNot Rated88Metascore
    7.1 (3.6K)
    During World War 2, a young lad's called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training for D-day.
    DirectorStuart CooperStarsBrian StirnerDavyd HarriesNicholas Ball
  • Midway (1976)

    17. Midway

    19762h 12mPG48Metascore
    6.8 (22K)
    A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
    DirectorJack SmightStarsCharlton HestonHenry FondaJames Coburn
  • Alain Delon in Mr. Klein (1976)

    18. Mr. Klein

    19762h 3mPG
    7.5 (10K)
    In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
    DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsAlain DelonJeanne MoreauFrancine Bergé
  • Jenny Agutter, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and Donald Sutherland in The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

    19. The Eagle Has Landed

    19762h 3mPG61Metascore
    6.9 (26K)
    A German plot to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
    DirectorJohn SturgesStarsMichael CaineDonald SutherlandRobert Duvall
  • A Bridge Too Far (1977)

    20. A Bridge Too Far

    19772h 55mPG63Metascore
    7.4 (65K)
    Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
    DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSean ConneryRyan O'NealMichael Caine
  • Cross of Iron (1977)

    21. Cross of Iron

    19771h 59mR64Metascore
    7.4 (30K)
    German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.
    DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsJames CoburnMaximilian SchellJames Mason
  • MacArthur (1977)

    22. MacArthur

    19772h 10mPG
    6.5 (5.4K)
    Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.
    DirectorJoseph SargentStarsGregory PeckDan O'HerlihyEd Flanders
  • Rutger Hauer in Soldier of Orange (1977)

    23. Soldier of Orange

    19772h 45mR
    7.6 (14K)
    During World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.
    DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJeroen KrabbéSusan Penhaligon
  • Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

    24. Force 10 from Navarone

    19781h 58mPG42Metascore
    6.4 (21K)
    During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
    DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsHarrison FordRobert ShawEdward Fox
  • Yanks (1979)

    25. Yanks

    19792h 18mR54Metascore
    6.4 (3.9K)
    Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.
    DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsRichard GereLisa EichhornVanessa Redgrave

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