Essential movies of the 1970s, from ‘Jaws’ and ‘Star Wars’ to ‘Network’ and ‘Being There,’ in a look back at one of the most pivotal decades in movie history ...

Rocky, Apocalypse Now, and Star Wars are some of the most entertaining films to come out of the 1970s.

In terms of connecting the movie industry's past to the present, perhaps no decade better embodies the line of demarcation than the 1970s.