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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Neil Coleta, Derrick Monasterio, Ping Medina, Patani Daño,
Directors : Peter Allan Mariano,

The story then takes our characters Lawrence, Joyce, Agnes and Caloy on a journey to the Babaylan apprentice's hometown to find definitive answers for their quest of knowledge and a ...

Actors : Rick Shapiro, Harry Lennix, Angus Macfadyen, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Alexander Tuschinski,

One day in 1932, Arnold Richter disappears, only to re-appear moments later in a totalitarian future. And that's only the beginning of a travel through time, space and emotion, exposing the...

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 : Dee Herlihy, Mirjam Egeris Karstoft, Mark Robert Ryan, 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 : 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 : Denise Donovan, Lauren Lopez, Lauren Walker, Meredith Stepien,

Meet Jemilla and her tribe of stone-age pals. Every day, they work hard collecting nuts and berries. Every night, they take cover in their cave, hiding from the most fearsome predator alive...

Actors : Ye Liu, Gigi Lau, Paul Philip Clark, Ye Qing,
Directors : Oxide Chun Pang,

Historical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US where they experienced life and death and established profound revolutionary feelings.

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 : Andre Jacobs, Greg Kriek, Charlotte Salt, Josh Myers,
Directors : Sean Else,

Set during the Anglo Boer War, prisoners of war take a stand against their captors

Actors : Seung-won Cha, Ji-hyun Nam, In-Sook Kim, In-kwon Kim,
Directors : Woo-Suk Kang,

At a time when maps weren't readily accessible for the public, 'Gosanja KIM Jeong-ho' (CHA Seoung-won) sets out to walk across the Korean peninsula to make the Daedongyeojido - the Great ...

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 ...