Best History movies of 2016

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

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

Actors : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûdai Chiba, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Céline Sallette, Grégory Gadebois, Romain Duris, Julie-Marie Parmentier,
Directors : Emmanuel Courcol,

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Dee Herlihy, Mark Robert Ryan, Mirjam Egeris Karstoft, Melissa Navia,
Directors : Ryan Andrew Balas,

Three women living together during a war time crisis, defy standard gender roles to try and form a nuclear family, with mixed results.

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 : 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 : 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.