70's WWII Movies
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- DirectorNikos FoskolosStarsAliki VougiouklakiDimitris PapamichaelKostas KarrasAfter two decades, the poisoned memories of WWII still haunt a selfless patriot. Will she ever forget her former conservatoire classmate and relentless SS leader; the tortures, or her Resistance fighter husband? Can she forgive and forget?
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsStephen BoydRobert HooksSusan OliverA racist officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Germans.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsAlan ArkinMartin BalsamRichard BenjaminA military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane during World War II so that he can be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
- DirectorMaurizio PradeauxStarsRichard HarrisonPilar VelázquezGiacomo Rossi StuartThe mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam, by bringing in commandos led by the twin brother of the German commander.
- DirectorValentino OrsiniStarsGiuliano GemmaTina AumontAntonio PiovanelliThe real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari. He starts his career killing publicly one of his friends that was a fascist. Than, he set up a band of partisans in north Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines, leave his husband to join the band and became Silvio's lover. Silvio Corbari succeeded also to set up a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from the Nazi occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano. But the opponent Nazi-Fascist army is too much for any kind of resistance, especially if not included in the organized CNL. All his partisan friends are captured and sentenced to death, Ines, close to be captured, suicides. Corbari, even if survives to a first hanging, can't escape to a second one. After WWII he deserved a gold medal to the memory from the Italian Republic.
- DirectorSergio GarroneStarsHorst BuchholzSylva KoscinaWilliam BergerAn undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
- DirectorJerzy PassendorferStarsBarbara SoltysikAleksandr BelyavskiyJanusz BukowskiPolish resistance and Soviet partisans in Poland, 1944.AKA: Day of Purification
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsFabijan SovagovicNikola-Kole AngelovskiGiuseppe AddobbatiGroup of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsBud SpencerFranco NeroRichard JohnsonAt the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Germans.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsMikhail NozhkinNikolay OlyalinMikhail UlyanovThis five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames FranciscusElizabeth ShepherdRonald AllenAn 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.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio FantoniIn 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.
- DirectorEwa PetelskaCzeslaw PetelskiStarsAndrzej KopiczynskiWladyslaw KowalskiAndrzej LapickiEpic about the Battle of Kolberg on the Eastern Front in 1945, where Polish soldiers united with the Soviet army to battle the Germans.AKA: Red Rowan
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsClint EastwoodTelly SavalasDon RicklesA group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiStanislawa CelinskaAleksander BardiniThe 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 Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, and still feels hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men, who quickly revert to petty enmities.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsStuart WhitmanJohn CollinMartin JarvisDuring 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.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsPaul BurkeDovie BeamsBroderick CrawfordBased on the World War II adventures of Ferdinand Marcos, who fought against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.AKA: Guerrilla Strike Force
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsBrian KeithHelmut GriemIan HendryDuring WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
- DirectorBent ChristensenStarsEbbe RodeHelle VirknerJane SeymourA Jewish family tries to escape from Denmark in October 1943 during the German occupation.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
- DirectorGeorgi NatansonStarsYuliya BorisovaAnatoli KtorovGunars CilinskisIn the center of the plot of the film is Elena Koltsova, the prototype of which was Alexandra Kollontai, the world's first female ambassador.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediJason RobardsPeter FalkIn WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.AKA: Operation Snafu
- DirectorJun'ya SatôStarsKôji TsurutaKen TakakuraShin'ichi ChibaWith World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. A Kamikaze squad leader has second thoughts about the suicide runs.AKA: The Last Kamikaze
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsVince EdwardsRichard BasehartWilliam ShatnerThis story is loosely based on the discovery of the B-24 "Liberator" bomber the "Lady Be Good" that was found in the Libyan desert after the crew got lost on their 1st bombing mission to Italy.