Biography Movies

In the wake of a car crash that killed his brother, football player Jon Abbate leads his school's struggling team to its most successful season ever.

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

20 years after Calvin and Hobbes stopped appearing in daily newspapers, filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder has set out to explore the reasons behind the c...

A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a man with a singular, unwavering focus — to elimi...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972),according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts...

The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Born in 1555, he was taken to Burma as a child hosta...

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first...

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940),creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and th...

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.

With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el...

The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and add...

A quiet physician from southern China masters martial arts to protect his son and stop a corrupt governor.

The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as M...

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religi...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85),an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,...

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.