Best 27 History Movies Must-Watch Released in 1970

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. Info on Patton / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness. See more about Tora! Tora! Tora! / IMDB / YouTube

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France. More about Army of Shadows / IMDB / YouTube

Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties. Info on Woodstock / IMDB / YouTube

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. Read about The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes / IMDB / YouTube

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo. Learn about Waterloo / IMDB / YouTube

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. Get info on Ryan's Daughter / IMDB / YouTube

In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him. More about The Wild Child / IMDB / YouTube

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. Read about The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer / IMDB / YouTube

Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I. Explore Cromwell / IMDB / YouTube

In 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé. Learn about Burn! / IMDB / YouTube

In 1876 Pennsylvania, a group of Irish immigrant coal miners begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment. Read about The Molly Maguires / IMDB / YouTube

Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution. Explore Start the Revolution Without Me / IMDB / YouTube

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects. See more about Witchhammer / IMDB / YouTube

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 sorely underestimated Mark Antony. See more about Julius Caesar / IMDB / YouTube

A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movi. Read about The Last Relic / IMDB / YouTube

The impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming Australia's most notorious bushranger. Explore Ned Kelly / IMDB / YouTube

The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are then herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise means to control the situation. A young poet, who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Je. Find out about Landscape After Battle / IMDB / YouTube

The iron triangle of director Chang Cheh and protégés David Chiang and Ti Lung make The Heroic Ones a quintessential action epic, set during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty and centering on a royal family rife with intrigue. Read about The Heroic Ones / IMDB / YouTube

Follows Martin Luther King's life and decades-long civil rights activism. Explore King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis / IMDB / YouTube

Benito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of epilepsy. Through the region begins to spread the rumor that he is a werewolf and that he is possessed by a demonic spirit. And it will be precisely the stories that people are telling. Details on The Ancines Woods / IMDB / YouTube

The life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship with aristocratic art connoisseur Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck. Find out about Tchaikovsky / IMDB / YouTube

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes of preventing his restoration to the throne. More about Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor / IMDB / YouTube

In the late Spring of 1970, nationwide protests against the war in Vietnam focused in the Wall Street area of New York City and ultimately in a major anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C. A group of New York University film students documented the demonstrations as they happened in both cities. Later, in New York, the massive amount of black and white and color 1. Learn about Street Scenes / IMDB / YouTube

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it. Info on The Adventures of Gerard / IMDB / YouTube

Josefine is a young streetwalker in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. She manages to sleep her way to the top by marrying a British aristocrat, and she delights in telling ribald stories of her sordid past to moralistic prudes. Check out Josefine M. / IMDB / YouTube

John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America. Info on Swing Out, Sweet Land / IMDB / YouTube