Films set in 1972

2012 film directed by Ang Lee

2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1975 film directed by Sidney Lumet

1968 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

2006 film by Kevin Macdonald

1978 film directed by Alan Parker

1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1989 film directed by Oliver Stone

2017 film directed by Steven Spielberg

BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It also features Harry Belafonte's last performance before his death in April 2023. Set in the 1970s in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it follows the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux

2012 film by Tim Burton

1973 film directed by Ted Post

2019 film directed by Gary Dauberman

1992 film by Richard Attenborough

1997 film directed by Alan J. Pakula

2023 film directed by J. A. Bayona

1993 film directed by Frank Marshall

1991 film directed by Howard Zieff

1985 film directed by Lance Hool

2021 film directed by Alan Taylor

1980 film by Jeannot Szwarc

2024 film by Tim Fehlbaum

2013 Russian film by Nikolai Lebedev

1972 film by Alan Gibson

2005 film by Atom Egoyan

Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade. The film co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.

1997 television film directed by John Frankenheimer

1978 film by Robert Mulligan

1991 film by Mira Nair

1999 film by Ted Demme

2000 television film directed by Anne Heche

2018 film directed by Brad Anderson

2017 Russian film by Anton Megerdichev

1992 film directed by Bill Duke

1973 film by Douglas Hickox

2000 film by Hugh Hudson

2000 film by Keith Gordon

2003 film

1993 film by Marshall Herskovitz

1994 film directed by Bruce Malmuth

2012 Hindi film series by Anurag Kashyap

2012 film directed by Craig Moss

1999 film directed by Andrew Fleming

1972 film by Emilio Miraglia

2024 film by John Ridley

2011 film by Fred Schepisi

2025 film directed by Ildikó Enyedi

R-Point () is a 2004 South Korean psychological horror war film written and directed by Kong Su-chang. Set in Vietnam in 1972, during the Vietnam War, it stars Kam Woo-sung and Son Byong-ho as members of the South Korean Army in Vietnam. Most of the movie was shot in Cambodia. Bokor Hill Station plays a prominent part of the movie, in this case doubling as a French colonial plantation. In 2011, Palisades Tartan re-released this film on DVD under the title Ghosts of War.

2013 film by Luiz Bolognesi

2018 film directed by Mary Harron

1982 Serbian film by Goran Marković

2000 film by Adam Collis

Deathdream (originally released as Dead of Night) is a 1974 horror film directed and produced by Bob Clark, written by Alan Ormsby, and starring Richard Backus, John Marley, and Lynn Carlin. Inspired by the W. W. Jacobs short story "The Monkey's Paw", the film is about young American soldier Andy Brooks (Backus) who returns home after seemingly being killed in Vietnam, only now as an undead, vampiric creature.

2014 film by Lav Diaz

1988 film by Chris Columbus

2019 film directed by Mark Steven Johnson

1967 film by Michael Cacoyannis

2008 film

2008 television film directed by Paul Ziller

2015 film directed by Doron Paz and Yoav Paz