List of epic films: 1970s

A list of epic films released during the 1970s.

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 1970 • 1971 • 1972• 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 ! Title !! Director !! Cast !! Country !! Notes
 * | 1970
 * Patton||Franklin J. Schaffner||Karl Malden,Michael Bates,George C. Scott||🇺🇸||War
 * Tora! Tora! Tora!||Richard Fleischer||Martin Balsam,Joseph Cotten,Jason Robards||🇺🇸🇯🇵||War
 * Ryan's Daughter||David Lean||Sarah Miles,John Mills,Robert Mitchum||||Romance
 * Waterloo||Sergei Bondarchuk||Rod Steiger,Christopher Plummer,Orson Welles,Jack Hawkins||🇮🇹||Historical/War
 * Cromwell||Ken Hughes||Alec Guinness,Richard Harris,Robert Morley,Nigel Stock||||Historical/War
 * The Flight||Aleksandr Alov||Lyudmilla Savelyeva,Aleksey Batalov,Mikhail Ulyanov||||War
 * | 1971
 * Nicholas and Alexandra||Franklin J. Schaffner||Ian Holm,Janet Suzman,Laurence Olivier||||Historical
 * King Lear||Grigori Kozintsev||Jüri Järvet,Oleg Dahl,Regimantas Adomaitis||||Shakespearean drama
 * | 1972
 * The Godfather||Francis Ford Coppola||Marlon Brando,Al Pacino,Robert Duvall||🇺🇸||Crime
 * Ruslan and Ludmila||Aleksandr Ptushko||Andrei Abrikosov||||Fantasy Adventure
 * | 1973
 * | 1974
 * At Home Among Strangers||Nikita Mikhalkov||Anatoly Solonitsyn||||Ostern
 * | 1975
 * They Fought for Their Country||Sergei Bondarchuk||Vasily Shukshin,Vyacheslav Tikhonov,Sergei Bondarchuk||||War
 * Barry Lyndon||Stanley Kubrick||Ryan O'Neal,Marisa Berenson,Patrick Magee||||Historical/War
 * Dersu Uzala||Akira Kurosawa||Maxim Munzuk,Yuri Solomin||🇯🇵||Adventure
 * | 1976
 * 1900||Bernardo Bertolucci||Dominique Sanda,Robert De Niro||🇮🇹||Historical/War
 * | 1977
 * Soldiers of Freedom||Yuri Ozerov||Mikhail Ulyanov,Evgeniy Matveyev,Vasily Lanovoy||||War
 * Ruslan and Ludmila||Aleksandr Ptushko||Andrei Abrikosov||||Fantasy Adventure
 * | 1973
 * | 1974
 * At Home Among Strangers||Nikita Mikhalkov||Anatoly Solonitsyn||||Ostern
 * | 1975
 * They Fought for Their Country||Sergei Bondarchuk||Vasily Shukshin,Vyacheslav Tikhonov,Sergei Bondarchuk||||War
 * Barry Lyndon||Stanley Kubrick||Ryan O'Neal,Marisa Berenson,Patrick Magee||||Historical/War
 * Dersu Uzala||Akira Kurosawa||Maxim Munzuk,Yuri Solomin||🇯🇵||Adventure
 * | 1976
 * 1900||Bernardo Bertolucci||Dominique Sanda,Robert De Niro||🇮🇹||Historical/War
 * | 1977
 * Soldiers of Freedom||Yuri Ozerov||Mikhail Ulyanov,Evgeniy Matveyev,Vasily Lanovoy||||War
 * Barry Lyndon||Stanley Kubrick||Ryan O'Neal,Marisa Berenson,Patrick Magee||||Historical/War
 * Dersu Uzala||Akira Kurosawa||Maxim Munzuk,Yuri Solomin||🇯🇵||Adventure
 * | 1976
 * 1900||Bernardo Bertolucci||Dominique Sanda,Robert De Niro||🇮🇹||Historical/War
 * | 1977
 * Soldiers of Freedom||Yuri Ozerov||Mikhail Ulyanov,Evgeniy Matveyev,Vasily Lanovoy||||War
 * 1900||Bernardo Bertolucci||Dominique Sanda,Robert De Niro||🇮🇹||Historical/War
 * | 1977
 * Soldiers of Freedom||Yuri Ozerov||Mikhail Ulyanov,Evgeniy Matveyev,Vasily Lanovoy||||War
 * | 1977
 * Soldiers of Freedom||Yuri Ozerov||Mikhail Ulyanov,Evgeniy Matveyev,Vasily Lanovoy||||War
 * Soldiers of Freedom||Yuri Ozerov||Mikhail Ulyanov,Evgeniy Matveyev,Vasily Lanovoy||||War