Biography Movies

Jean-Marc Boivin had chosen the natural elements as his playground. In his quest for extremes and discoveries. By turns mountaineer, skier, hang-glide...

Eleven time Fiddler of the Year and even a Grammy nominee, but that's just part of the story. Though born with disabilities that left him blind and pa...

The story of the life of the monk (Andrew Samuel),who grew up in the province of Beni Suef at the end of the nineteenth century, lost his sight at th...

The legendary life of José Teixeira da Silva, José do Telhado, married to his cousin Aninhas, defeated his father's resistance, due to the fame of his...

For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker and...

Following years of abuse while being raised in the Children Of God cult, Ricky Rodriguez seeks revenge against the cult's leader - his mother.

Two Loves is a poem written by Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie", Lord Alfred Douglas. This documentary depicts the love and war between these two men, brin...

The film tells the story of Sister NIvedita, a Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and a disciple of Swami Vivekananda.

A young Slovenian girl arrives in Brazil right before the outbreak of World War II. She is alone, single, has left the family and her great love back...

Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the guys from Gangrena Gasosa, the first and only Sarav...

A tribute to a humble but great man in the film industry.

Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying...

Hearing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for the first time changed Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser’s life forever, and in this inspiring documentary, we see him—...

Lou Reed interviews his cousin, Shirley Novick (Shulamit Rabinowitz),on the eve of her 100th birthday. Shirley recalls growing up in a small village...

Remembering the miserable end of his father who had died a drunkard's death, George resolves to conquer the terrible craving he has inherited.

The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several promine...

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.

Four young gay guys investigate how Hungarian society and the state have been treating gays and how gays' personal experiences of social and political...