Best History movies of 2016

Actors : Haldun Boysan, Kenan Bal, Altan Akisik, Sinan Albayrak,
Directors : Kürsat Kizbaz,

Based on a real life story of sufi dervish Somuncu Baba, who lived in Aksaray in Turkey.

Actors : Nicolas Bro, Danica Curcic, Jakob Cedergren, David Dencik,
Directors : Nicolo Donato,

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.

Actors : Meto Jovanovski, Petre Arsovski, Slavko Stimac, Jana Stojanovska,
Directors : Goran Trenchovski,

Maki, Kata and Jiji are loyal friends who believe in their youthful ideals. However, when Maki and Kata announce their engagement, Jiji becomes jealous. In the period of communist ...

Actors : Julian Sands, Henry Goodman, Hannah Murray, Alfonso Herrera,
Directors : Antonio Chavarrías,

A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940,claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon Trotsky's secretaries. But nobody...

Actors : Porgy Franssen, Roeland Fernhout, Lize Feryn, Jeroen Spitzenberger,
Directors : Rudolf van den Berg,

The life story of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, from his beginnings as a rebellious young artist in 1920s Amsterdam to his rise to infamy as one of the most ingenious art forgers of all time.

Actors : Jana Civzele, Edvins Mekss, Sabine Timoteo, Baiba Broka,
Directors : Viesturs Kairiss,

In the early morning of June 14, 1941, under Stalin's orders, over 40 000 people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were arrested, shoved into cattle cars and dispatched to permanent exile ...

Actors : Yûdai Chiba, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Yoshihiro Nakamura,

It is eighteenth century Japan and the residents of a poor town lead a typically meagre life. Then nine residents, which include Juzaburo, hatch a scheme to improve their lots by running a ...

Actors : Arly Jover, Karel Roden, Hanns Zischler, Oldrich Kaiser,
Directors : Julius Sevcík,

A period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the country's minister of foreign affairs and is believed by many to have been killed by the Communists in 1948.

Actors : Noah Saavedra, Valerie Pachner, Maresi Riegner, Marie Jung,
Directors : Dieter Berner,

At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two ...

Actors : Evan Williams, Elizabeth Rice, Eric Roberts, Nicole Arianna Fox,
Directors : Carolyn Cavallero,

During the height of the social revolution, a young dancer searches for salvation when she chooses to leave paradise.

Actors : Mike Ostroski, Matthew Broussard, Brittany Faith Rosoff, Joe Coffey,
Directors : David Zuckerman,

The zombified leaders of the free world rise from the dead to hunt down a group of ill-fated teens and give them a lethal lesson in American history. Their only hope for survival is to summon the demonic spirit of John Wilkes Booth.

Actors : Harry Lennix, Kevin McNally, Angus Macfadyen, Taylor Roberts,
Directors : Angus Macfadyen,

This is a modern interpretation of the bard's tragedy, set in the claustrophobic confines of a stretch limousine which prowls the streets of a contemporary landscape as its agoraphobic ...

Actors : Yuna Shin, Leo Ashizawa, David Yip, Meg Kubota,

The true story of Dr. Takashi Nagai, scientific pioneer, war hero, Christian convert and survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, who worked tirelessly in his efforts to heal the wounds of a country utterly devastated by war.

Actors : Jia Ali, Noor Bukhari, Saleem Albela, Afzal Khan,
Directors : Umair Fazli,

A historical glimpse into the history of Pakistan India Partition and war's of 1965 and 1971 and present day of the new conflict in Pakistan.

Actors : James Karen, Bruce Davison, Linda Purl, Buck Taylor,
Directors : John Alexander,

The unsettling true story of America's first serial killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters the Benders, homesteaders trapped by a life of unspeakable sin.

Actors : Timothy Paul Coderre, Bill Lake, Stephen MacDonald, Tommie-Amber Pirie,
Directors : Kyle Portbury,

In 19th Century New England, the lives of a diverse group of people collide through interweaving stories of despair, identity, faith, hope and trust.

Actors : Mariano Bertolini, Sergio Surraco, Florencia Torrente, Fabio Di Tomaso,
Directors : Rodrigo Fernández Engler,

The story is centered on the human drama of three young people from a small town in Traslasierra, Córdoba, who from very different ideological places are forever transformed by the Malvinas Argentinas (Fakland Islands)

Actors : Keith David, Christopher Livingston, Morgan Auld, Lamman Rucker,

It's 1967 and Eli Rosenberg has a problem; only one medical school in the country will accept him: Meharry Medical College, an all-black medical school in Tennessee, a considerable distance...

Actors : Irène Jacob, Ari Albarrán, Eugenia Tempesta, Kaori Momoi,

Eight different stories that take place in the same room and in a different period of modern Mexican history.

Actors : Katie Pengra, Rob Gagnon, Lisa Friedrich, Pat Dean,
Directors : Lex Lybrand,

A Texas tech start-up breaks every crowdfunding record in the books, but they lose it all when a patent troll shuts them down. Refusing to go down without a fight, our heroes use a legal ...