Biography Movies

PT 109 is a movie starring Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, and Ty Hardin. President John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.

Seven Up! is a TV short starring Douglas Keay, Bruce Balden, and Jacqueline Bassett. A group of seven-year-old British children from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects.The original intention was...

The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a movie starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, and Ed Begley. A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic...

The story of Joaquin Murrieta, a real life Mexican bandit who terrorized California with his gang of raiders and cutthroats during the first half of the 19th century. Some saw him as a murderous outlaw, others as the Mexican Robin Ho

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a movie starring Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, and Charlton Heston. An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

The Sound of Music is a movie starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, and Eleanor Parker. A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Il vangelo secondo Matteo is a movie starring Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, and Susanna Pasolini. The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore...

A somewhat different take on Custer's motivation that changed him from a defender of Native-American rights into a politically-driven , headlines-seeker chastiser of the Sioux during the 1870s.

Andrey Rublev is a movie starring Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, and Nikolay Grinko. The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Bonnie and Clyde is a movie starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Michael J. Pollard. Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the...

In Cold Blood is a movie starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, and John Forsythe. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality...

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.

Funny Girl is a movie starring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, and Kay Medford. The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her...

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse.

An intentionally noncommittal version of the Cuban revolution told through flashbacks, the film recounts Che's switch from doctor to politico in Castro's campaign.

Sayat Nova is a movie starring Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, and Vilen Galstyan. A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.

Sir Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of seventeenth century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.

L'enfant sauvage is a movie starring François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, and Françoise Seigner. In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and...

The Cross and the Switchblade is a movie starring Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, and Jacqueline Giroux. Long before faith-based films became a regular feature of mainstream movie theaters, there was The Cross and The Switchblade. The...

Chisum is a movie starring John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, and Christopher George. Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

Song of Norway is a movie starring Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad, and Christina Schollin. Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's...

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

10 Rillington Place is a movie starring Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, and John Hurt. Based on the real-life case of the British serial killer John Christie, and what happened to his neighbors Tim and Beryl Evans.

Von Richthofen and Brown is a movie starring John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, and Barry Primus. The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German...

Brian's Song is a TV movie starring James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, and Jack Warden. Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is...

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native lan

Fratello sole, sorella luna is a movie starring Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, and Leigh Lawson. Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope,...

The second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - a

Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes is a movie starring Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, and Helena Rojo. In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Walking Tall is a movie starring Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, and Leif Garrett. Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a...

CIAO! MANHATTAN parallels Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick's glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a movie starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Richard Jaeckel. Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the...

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Jimi Hendrix is a movie starring Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, and Stella Benabon. This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix's untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but...

A Bigger Splash is a movie starring David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger, and Celia Birtwell. Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to...

My Ain Folk is a movie starring Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, and Jean Taylor Smith. Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all...

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Papillon is a movie starring Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, and Victor Jory. A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

The Dove is a movie starring Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin, and John McLiam. The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who sailed alone around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his...

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.