Biography Movies, Movies about Biography

Here we've displayed a list of the best Biography films : Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators(2017), Marley(2012), Pad Man(2018), The Wind Rises(2013), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz(2018), Western Stars(2019), Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird(2010), The Wizard of Lies(2017), I Am Heath Ledger(2017), The Gabby Douglas Story(2014), Everything Is Copy(2015) ... ...

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Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George's Creators

A documentary film exploring the extraordinary lives of Hans and Margret Rey, the authors of the beloved Curious George children's books.

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Marley

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

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Pad Man

Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.

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The Wind Rises

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

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Song for a Raggy Boy

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

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Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.

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Western Stars

Live concert performance of Bruce Springsteen singing songs from his album 'Western Stars'.

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Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

It is our national novel. Reading to Kill a Mockingbird is something we all have in common. Harper Lee's first and only novel turns 50 this summer and the author hasn't given an interview ... See full summary »

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The Wizard of Lies

A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his... See full summary »

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I Am Heath Ledger

Friends and family of the late actor Heath Ledger remember his life and career.

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The Gabby Douglas Story

The Great Alone is a feature length independent documentary film that tells the inspiring comeback story of Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey.

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Everything Is Copy

A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.

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Filmworker

A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.

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A Street Cat Named Bob

Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

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David Crosby: Remember My Name

Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.

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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

A feature documentary on the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater. Produced and Directed by Louis Black (founder of SXSW Festivals and the Austin Chronicle) and Karen Bernstein (... See full summary »

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Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul

The story of singer Joe Cocker is told through archive footage and interviews for close associates.

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Reach for the Sky

Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.

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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

The film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both... See full summary »

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I Am Ali

Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.

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Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice

A 90-minutes documentary that celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance, the most unexpected mind that the art of painting has ever produced: Tintoretto.

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Kill the Irishman

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

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Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge and Me

After devoting his life to publish philosophy, history and psychoanalysis, the editor Mario Zavadikner, discontented with the social and intellectual reality, decides to shoot himself at ... See full summary »

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Confession of Murder

Lee Du-seok publishes an autobiography describing murders he committed after the statute of limitations expires. A detective and one of the victim's mothers search for the author while another killer begins a spree of murders.

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Baarìa

Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.

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Born to Be Blue

A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.

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The Last Impresario

The most famous person you have never heard of

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Shepherds and Butchers

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

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Mr. Turner

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.

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Tolkien

The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.

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