1970s
| Year | Film | Subject(s) | Lead actor or actress |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | A Bullet for Pretty Boy | Pretty Boy Floyd | Fabian |
| 1970 | Chisum | John Chisum | John Wayne |
| 1970 | Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell | Richard Harris |
| 1970 | The Cross and the Switchblade | David Wilkerson | Pat Boone |
| 1970 | The Honeymoon Killers | Martha Beck | Shirley Stoler |
| Raymond Fernandez | Tony Lo Bianco | ||
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | Charlton Heston |
| 1970 | Michael the Brave (film) | Michael the Brave | Amza Pellea |
| 1970 | Ned Kelly | Ned Kelly | Mick Jagger |
| 1970 | Patton | George S. Patton | George C. Scott |
| 1970 | Song of Norway | Edvard Grieg and Rikard Nordraak | Toralv Maurstad and Frank Poretta |
| 1970 | Szerelmi álmok – Liszt | Franz Liszt | Imre Sinkovits |
| 1970 | Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | Rip Torn |
| 1970 | The Wild Child | Victor of Aveyron | Jean-Pierre Cargol |
| 1971 | Brian's Song | Brian Piccolo | James Caan |
| 1971 | The Devils | Urbain Grandier | Oliver Reed |
| 1971 | Doc | Doc Holliday | Stacy Keach |
| 1971 | Evel Knievel (film) | Evel Knievel | George Hamilton |
| 1971 | Macbeth | Macbeth of Scotland | Jon Finch |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England | Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson |
| 1971 | The Music Lovers | Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Richard Chamberlain |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia | Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman |
| 1971 | 10 Rillington Place | John Reginald Christie | Richard Attenborough |
| 1972 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | Spike Milligan | Jim Dale |
| 1972 | The Assassination of Trotsky | Leon Trotsky | Richard Burton |
| 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Lope de Aguirre | Klaus Kinski |
| 1972 | Antony and Cleopatra | Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII | Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil |
| 1972 | Brother Sun, Sister Moon | St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Assisi | Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker |
| 1972 | Dirty Little Billy | Billy the Kid | Michael J. Pollard |
| 1972 | The Great Waltz (1972 film) | Johann Strauss II | Horst Buchholz |
| 1972 | Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn | Keith Michell and Charlotte Rampling |
| 1972 | Lady Caroline Lamb (film) | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sarah Miles |
| 1972 | Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday | Diana Ross |
| 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Judge Roy Bean | Paul Newman |
| 1972 | The Life of Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo Da Vinci | Philippe Leroy |
| 1972 | Living Free | George Adamson | Nigel Davenport |
| Joy Adamson | Susan Hampshire | ||
| 1972 | Ludwig | Ludwig II of Bavaria | Helmut Berger |
| 1972 | Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King | Ludwig II of Bavaria | Harry Baer |
| 1972 | The Mattei Affair | Enrico Mattei | Gian Maria Volonté |
| 1972 | Pancho Villa | Pancho Villa | Telly Savalas |
| 1972 | Pope Joan | Pope Joan | Liv Ullmann |
| 1972 | Savage Messiah | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska | Scott Antony |
| 1972 | Tadas Blinda | Tadas Blinda | Vytautas Tomkus |
| 1972 | The Valachi Papers | Joseph Valachi | Charles Bronson |
| 1972 | Young Winston | Winston Churchill | Simon Ward |
| 1973 | Dillinger | John Dillinger | Warren Oates |
| 1973 | Edvard Munch | Edvard Munch | Geir Westby |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Adolf Hitler | Alec Guinness |
| 1973 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Jesus | Ted Neeley |
| 1973 | The Last American Hero | Junior Johnson | Jeff Bridges |
| 1973 | Lucky Luciano (film) | Lucky Luciano | Gian Maria Volonté |
| 1973 | Maurie | Maurice Stokes | Bernie Casey |
| Jack Twyman | Bo Svenson | ||
| 1973 | Papillon | Henri Charrière and Louis Dega | Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Pat Garrett | James Coburn |
| Billy the Kid | Kris Kristofferson | ||
| 1973 | Serpico | Frank Serpico | Al Pacino |
| 1973 | Walking Tall | Buford Pusser | Joe Don Baker |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Kaspar Hauser | Bruno S. |
| 1974 | The Great McGonagall | William McGonagall | Spike Milligan |
| 1974 | Lenny | Lenny Bruce | Dustin Hoffman |
| 1974 | Mahler | Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler | Robert Powell and Georgina Hale |
| 1974 | Stavisky | Alexandre Stavisky | Jean-Paul Belmondo |
| 1974 | The Story of Jacob and Joseph | Jacob | Keith Michell |
| Joseph | Tony Lo Bianco | ||
| 1975 | Capone | Al Capone | Ben Gazzara |
| 1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Sonny Wortzik | Al Pacino |
| 1975 | Galileo | Galileo Galilei | Chaim Topol |
| 1975 | The Happy Hooker | Xaviera Hollander | Lynn Redgrave |
| 1975 | The Hiding Place | Corrie ten Boom | Julie Harris |
| 1975 | Lepke | Louis Buchalter | Tony Curtis |
| 1975 | Lisztomania | Franz Liszt | Roger Daltrey |
| 1975 | Moses | Moses | Burt Lancaster |
| 1975 | Murph the Surf | Jack Roland Murphy | Don Stroud |
| 1975 | The Naked Civil Servant | Quentin Crisp | John Hurt |
| 1975 | The Other Side of the Mountain | Jill Kinmont | Marilyn Hassett |
| 1975 | The Story of Adele H. | Adèle Hugo | Isabelle Adjani |
| 1975 | Un prete scomodo | Lorenzo Milani | Enrico Maria Salerno |
| 1976 | Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie | David Carradine |
| 1976 | Bruce Lee and I | Bruce Lee | Danny Lee |
| Betty Ting Pei | Betty Ting Pei | ||
| 1976 | Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth | Bruce Lee | Bruce Li |
| 1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians | Buffalo Bill | Paul Newman |
| 1976 | The Disappearance of Aimee | Aimee Semple McPherson | Faye Dunaway |
| 1976 | Eleanor and Franklin | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Edward Herrmann |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Jane Alexander | ||
| 1976 | Fellini's Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | Donald Sutherland |
| 1976 | Gable and Lombard | Clark Gable and Carole Lombard | James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh |
| 1976 | James Dean | James Dean | Stephen McHattie |
| 1976 | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | Julie Harris |
| 1976 | The Message | Muhammad | Anthony Quinn |
| 1976 | Mohammad, Messenger of God | Muhammad | Anthony Quinn (as Hamza) |
| 1976 | 'The Story of David | King David | Timothy Bottoms |
| 1976 | Sybil | Shirley Ardell Mason | Sally Field |
| 1976 | W.C. Fields and Me | W. C. Fields | Rod Steiger |
| 1977 | The Amazing Howard Hughes | Howard Hughes | Tommy Lee Jones |
| 1977 | Greased Lightning | Wendell Scott | Richard Pryor |
| 1977 | The Greatest | Muhammad Ali | Muhammad Ali |
| 1977 | MacArthur | Douglas MacArthur | Gregory Peck |
| 1977 | The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | J. Edgar Hoover | Broderick Crawford |
| 1977 | Scott Joplin | Scott Joplin | Billy Dee Williams |
| 1977 | Valentino (1977 film) | Rudolph Valentino | Rudolf Nureyev |
| 1977 | Wilma | Wilma Rudolph | Shirley Jo Finney |
| 1978 | American Hot Wax | Alan Freed | Tim McIntire |
| 1978 | The Buddy Holly Story | Buddy Holly | Gary Busey |
| 1978 | Ishi: The Last of His Tribe | Ishi | Eloy Casados |
| 1978 | La Vida y Poesia de Julia de Burgos | Julia de Burgos | Ana Li Diaz |
| 1978 | King (TV miniseries) | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Paul Winfield |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Billy Hayes | Brad Davis |
| 1978 | The Roads of Exile | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | François Simon |
| 1979 | Birth of The Beatles | The Beatles | Stephen MacKenna as John Lennon, Rod Culbertson as Paul McCartney, John Altman as George Harrison, and Ray Ashcroft as Ringo Starr |
| 1979 | The Bronte Sisters | Charlotte Brontë | Isabelle Adjani |
| Emily Brontë | Marie-France Pisier | ||
| Anne Brontë | Isabelle Huppert | ||
| 1979 | Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth | Bruce Lee | Bruce Li |
| 1979 | Caligula | Gaius Germanicus Caligula | Malcolm McDowell |
| 1979 | Elvis | Elvis Presley | Kurt Russell |
| 1979 | Escape from Alcatraz | Frank Morris | Clint Eastwood |
| 1979 | Jesus | Jesus | Brian Deacon |
| 1979 | Les Égouts du paradis-with Patricia Roca] | Albert Spaggiari | Francis Huster |
| 1979 | Meetings with Remarkable Men | George Gurdjieff | Dragan Maksimovic |
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