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) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2017
81 Minutes
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A documentary film exploring the extraordinary lives of Hans and Margret Rey, the authors of the beloved Curious George children's books.
Drama, Comedy
India
2018
140 Minutes
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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.
Anime, Biography, Drama, History
Japan|France|USA
2013
126 Minutes
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A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
Drama
Ireland|UK|Denmark|Spain
2003
98 Minutes
Aidan Quinn Iain Glen Marc Warren Dudley Sutton Alan Devlin Stuart Graham John Travers Chris Newman
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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.
Documentary
Canada
2018
83 Minutes
Alan Dershowitz Benjamin Ferencz General Wesley Clark David Scheffer
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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.
Documentary, Music
USA
2019
83 Minutes
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Live concert performance of Bruce Springsteen singing songs from his album 'Western Stars'.
Documentary
USA
2010
82 Minutes
Jane Beasley
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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 »
Crime, Drama
France|Israel
2017
133 Minutes
Robert De Niro Michelle Pfeiffer Alessandro Nivola Nathan Darrow Kristen Connolly Lily Rabe Hank Azaria Kathrine Narducci Michael Goorjian Kelly AuCoin Geoffrey Cantor
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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 »
Documentary
Canada
2017
90 Minutes
Adrian Buitenhuls
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Friends and family of the late actor Heath Ledger remember his life and career.
Drama, Biography
USA
2014
90 Minutes
Regina King S. Epatha Merkerson Imani Hakim Sydney Mikayla Gabby Douglas Brian Tee David Haydn-Jones Dean Armstrong
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The Great Alone is a feature length independent documentary film that tells the inspiring comeback story of Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey.
Documentary
USA
2015
89 Minutes
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A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.
Documentary
USA
2017
94 Minutes
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A documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.
Biography, Drama
UK
2016
103 Minutes
Luke Treadaway Ruta Gedmintas Joanne Froggatt Anthony Head Caroline Goodall Ruth Sheen Darren Evans Beth Goddard Nina Wadia Franc Ashman
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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.
Documentary, Music
USA
2019
95 Minutes
david crosby musician creative emotional engaging fascinating melancholy moving powerful united states biography music music business life aging adventure quest 2010s
Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Documentary
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Karen Bernstein Julie Delpy
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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 »
Documentary
UK
2017
90 Minutes
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The story of singer Joe Cocker is told through archive footage and interviews for close associates.
War, Biography
UK
1957
123 Minutes
Kenneth More Muriel Pavlow Lyndon Brook Alexander Knox Sydney Tafler Nigel Green Dorothy Alison
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Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.
Documentary
USA|Germany
2020
86 Minutes
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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 »
Documentary, Biography
UK
2014
114 Minutes
george foreman inspiring heartwarming interview biography boxing rise 2010s
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.
Documentary
Italy
2019
90 Minutes
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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.
Crime, Drama
USA
2011
106 Minutes
Ray Stevenson Vincent D'Onofrio Val Kilmer Christopher Walken Linda Cardellini Tony Darrow Robert Davi Fionnula Flanagan Vinnie Jones Tony Lo Bianco Laura Ramsey
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The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.
Drama, Biography, Music
Argentina
2016
83 Minutes
Rhyon Nicole Brown Curtis Hamilton Jamie Kennedy R. Marcos Taylor Kedrick Brown Hank Brock Deric Augustine Donna Biscoe Vonii Bristow
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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 »
Mystery & Thriller, Action
South Korea
2012
119 Minutes
Jae-yeong Jeong Eun-ji Jo Yeong-ae Kim Won-yeong Choi Gwang Jang Ji-a Min Shi-hoo Park
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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.
History, Biography, War, Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
2009
150 Minutes
Francesco Scianna Margareth Madè Raoul Bova Giorgio Faletti Leo Gullotta Nicole Grimaudo Gabriele Lavia Ángela Molina Enrico Lo Verso Nino Frassica Aldo Baglio
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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.
Romance, Drama, History, Biography, Music
Canada|UK
2015
97 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Carmen Ejogo Callum Keith Rennie Tony Nappo Janet-Laine Green Dan Lett Kedar Brown Kevin Hanchard Stephen McHattie
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A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s.
Biography
Australia|UK|USA|France
2013
85 Minutes
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The most famous person you have never heard of
Drama
South Africa|USA|Germany
2016
106 Minutes
Andrea Riseborough Steve Coogan Deon Lotz Robert Hobbs Garion Dowds Marcel van Heerden Nicola Hanekom Eduan van Jaarsveldt Carel Nel
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A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|Germany|USA
2014
149 Minutes
Timothy Spall Dorothy Atkinson Marion Bailey Paul Jesson Lesley Manville Martin Savage Joshua McGuire Ruth Sheen David Horovitch Karl Johnson Sandy Foster
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An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2019
112 Minutes
Nicholas Hoult Lily Collins Colm Meaney Derek Jacobi Anthony Boyle Patrick Gibson Tom Glynn-Carney Craig Roberts Harry Gilby Adam Bregman Albie Marber
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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.