Anthropoid is a 2016 UK-French-Czech historical thriller film directed by Sean Ellis, from a screenplay by Ellis and Anthony Frewin, starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, and Bill Milner. It tells the story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak exile soldiers on 27 May 1942.
Anthropoid had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on 1 July 2016. Bleecker Street released the film on 9 September 2016 in the United Kingdom and on 12 August 2016, in the United States.