Home
Collection of movies in the Biography genre on our website. Have fun!
Country: India
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2022
Based on the life of Indian Space Research Organization scientist Nambi Narayanan who was framed for being a spy and arrested in 1994. Though free he continues to fight for justice against the officials who falsely implicated...
HD
2022
157 min
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 1981
Filmmaker Ron Peck narrates this exploration of the world and work of Edward Hopper with Gail Levin curator of the Edward Hopper Collection at New Yorks Whitney Museum of American...
1981
51 min
Edward Hopper
Country: France, West Germany, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Year: 1968
Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the...
1968
99 min
The Wild Wild World Of Jayne Mansfield
Country: Italy, France, United States
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Year: 1958
Love takes precedence over art and politics as Spanish painter Goya pines for an aloof...
1958
111 min
The Naked Maja
Country: Australia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2021
Wash My Soul in the Rivers Flow is a cinematic reinvention of a legendary concert that premiered in 2004. Kura Tungar-Songs from the River was a collaboration between First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter...
2021
90 min
Wash My Soul In The River's Flow
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
On June 25 1983 the Lords Cricket Ground witnessed 14 men beat the two times World Champions West Indies putting India back onto the cricket world...
162 min
'83
A biopic on the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J...
153 min
Thalaivi
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
A biopic detailing the 2 decades that Punjabi Sikh revolutionary Udham Singh spent planning the assassination of the man responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh...
164 min
Sardar Udham
Country: Canada, France, Belgium
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
An account of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomons life in the south of France between 1941 and 1943 before she was sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Inspired by her memoir Life? or...
92 min
Charlotte 2021
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Looking at the former congresswomans courage and perseverance in the aftermath of the 2011 assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and with a language impairment...
98 min
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
Country: N/A
Billy Graham explores the life and career of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. From modest beginnings on a North Carolina farm Graham rose to prominence with a fiery preaching...
N/A
American Experience Billy Graham
Year: 2018
Tracing the movement to breed a better American race which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization...
2018
115 min
American Experience The Eugenics Crusade
Country: Spain, United Kingdom, Colombia, France, United States
Year: 2015
Gabo The Magic of Reality is a story about the incredible power of human imagination which follows the interwoven threads of Gabriel García Márquezs life and work - Gabo to all of Latin America - with the narrative tension...
2015
Gabo: The Creation Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Country: Canada
Year: 2020
BROKEN VOWS: Stories of Separation is an award winning documentary that was produced over a four year period. Initially starting as a team of one Sunnie McFadden-Curtis built a small but dedicated team of creatives around...
2020
Broken Vows: Stories Of Separation
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
An unlikely author who helped shape American ideas of the frontier. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling Little House...
American Masters Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie To Page
Genre: Biography
Year: 2013
Explore the life of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist Philip Roth often referred to as the greatest living American...
2013
84 min
Philip Roth: Unmasked
Country: Australia, Germany, France, United States
Year: 2016
An epic adventure starring artists werewolves heroes Nazis a comic book & baguettes ....with lashings of French...
2016
95 min
Monsieur Mayonnaise
Country: Finland, France, Germany, South Africa
Year: 2011
Documentary about Miriam...
2011
Mama Africa
Country: Poland
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynskis story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland...
140 min
Prorok
Country: Finland, United States
A renewed interest is emerging in mid-20th century architects and artists who exploded the comfortable constraints of the past to create a robust and daring modernist America. Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future...
70 min
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw The Future
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Composer conductor genius mensch Marvin Hamlisch was as close to a modern day Da Vinci as it gets. Hit after hit...The Way We Were Nobody Does It Better The Sting Chorus Line Marvin was irrepressible and prolific....
85 min
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
Year: 2019
I Am Richard Pryor tells the story of the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended race and social barriers by delivering his honest irreverent and biting humor to Americas stages and living rooms until...
2019
I Am Richard Pryor
Follows the journey of enigmatic Australian musician Jeremy Oxley lead singer of Sunnyboys as he emerges from a 30-year battle with schizophrenia. An inspiring story of hope survival & the healing power of unconditional...
The Sunnyboy
Year: 2017
Life and career of legendary blues musician Paul...
2017
Horn From The Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story
A documentary about internationally renowned film editor Jill Bilcock that charts how an outspoken arts student in 1960s Melbourne became one of the worlds most acclaimed film...
78 min
Jill Bilcock: Dancing The Invisible
Year: 2014
Impossible Light follows Internationally renowned artist Leo Villareal and his dedicated team as they set out to install 25000 LED lights on the side of San Franciscos Bay Bridge for an abstract fine art sculpture known as...
2014
71 min
Impossible Light
Year: 2023
The story of how one of the worlds most popular video games found its way to players around the globe. Businessman Henk Rogers and Tetris inventor Alexey Pajitnov join forces in the USSR risking it all to bring Tetris to the...
2023
120 min
Tetris (2023)
Country: Germany
A look at the relationship between Seneca and Nero the infamous Emperor he mentored since childhood and who accused him of plotting his...
112 min
Seneca - On The Creation Of Earthquakes
Country: Australia, India, United States
A documentary about pop music spirituality and celebrity Ben Lee: Catch my Disease is an acerbic playful yet profoundly intimate portrait of a unique child pop star who stepped through the looking glass of...
86 min
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Country: Italy, Spain
The biography of Neapolitan comic theater legend Eduardo...
133 min
The King Of Laughter
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czech Republic, Poland
1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden Norway and Denmark through her adopted son Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her lifes work: the Kalmar...
Margrete: Queen Of The North
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1965
A true story of Peter Kurten a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression...
1965
89 min
The Secret Killer
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
A biopic based on the life and struggles of Mithali Raj Indian Cricketer and captain of the Indian National Cricket...
156 min
Shabaash Mithu
Country: Italy
A thrilling journey through the world of Renato Casaro one of the most important living illustrators that the worlds film poster industry has ever...
97 min
The Last Movie Painter
Country: Japan
There are several iconic paintings in Japan depicting scenes of nature and the times. Several of these have become famous world-wide. Several of these are the works of Hokusai. However the artist was not always famous or...
129 min
Hokusai 2020
Year: 2004
The story of Z Channel one of the first U.S. pay cable stations and its programming chief Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974 in LA their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable...
2004
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
Country: Germany, Poland
Year: 2008
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War...
2008
131 min
Anonyma - Eine Frau In Berlin
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
When a rock n roll stars life comes crashing down he must fight his past demons to realize his childhood ambition of becoming a...
109 min
Southern Gospel
Country: France
French art documentary about Leonardo da Vinci on the occasion of his 500th birthday 2 May 2019. How is it possible that one and the same man was able to both paint the Mona Lisa invent the ball bearing and be the first to...
52 min
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Universal Man
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Why She Smiles is the true inspirational story of 34-year old Jamie Sorum who is battling Huntingtons Disease. Huntingtons Disease is a rare fatal neurological disease with symptoms being described as having ALS Lou...
40 min
Why She Smiles
The American Diplomat explores the lives and legacies of three African-American ambassadors Edward R. Dudley Terence Todman and Carl Rowan who pushed past historical and institutional racial barriers to reach high-ranking...
53 min
American Experience The American Diplomat
Country: Germany, Italy, Netherlands
Capturing the life of German hip-hop rapper entrepreneur and ex-convict Giwar...
138 min
Rheingold
The film lAmatore the Amateur is a journey within the intimate folds of a well-known architect Piero Portaluppi who worked during the twenty years of Fascism through the discovery of his work in the present and through his...
L'amatore
Country: West Germany, United States
Year: 1969
A fictionalized biography of the worlds most celebrated sexual and physical pervert who was infamous for his erotic behavior - going from woman to woman seeking a love that eluded...
1969
De Sade
Country: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, History, Thriller
A flawed Army General attempts to guide an impossible African country through a viciously strained era in this first of its kind authorised biopic based on real...
135 min
Badamasi
Country: Greece, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Ukraine, United States
A documentary portrait of Brazilian ballet star Marcelo...
80 min
Anatomy Of A Male Ballet Dancer
An underground musician becomes obsessed with Bernie Madoffs massive financial fraud and finds herself inside a real-life meta-musical investigation about trust deception and...
75 min
A Kaddish For Bernie Madoff
Country: Spain
Year: 1987
First part of the history of El Lute a delinquent who became notorious in Spain for his jail escapes in the 60s converting himself in a popular...
1987
123 min
El Lute: Run For Your Life
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
43 years ago Jane Pittman a promising basketball star ran off the court. Coming Back to the Hoop is a film about the transformative power of basketball and the healing it brings when you connect with something larger than...
Coming Back To The Hoop
Sir Doug & The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm the wild man musicians musician and unsung hero of Texas music. A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm & blues dynamo who caused a riot at his...
83 min
Sir Doug And The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove
After climbing Broad Peak mountain Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later he sets out to finish what he...
101 min
Broad Peak
Country: Senegal, United States
Meet Ousmane Sembene the African freedom fighter who used stories as his...
Sembene!
Country: Finland
The story of Eero Ettala a professional snowboarder from Finland. The documentary tells about his career and includes his friends and colleagues...
Ender - The Eero Ettala Documentary
Year: 1999
Documentary based on Owen Hart and his life outside of the ring containing footage of his family after his sudden and tragic...
1999
44 min
Biography The Life And Death Of Owen Hart
Country: Canada, Hungary, United States
After World War II Harry Haft is a boxer who fought against his peers in concentration camps. Haunted by memories he tries to use fighting legends as a way to find his...
The Survivor 2021
Country: Canada, United States
Follow the real life story of Sidney Poitier the Oscar winner of...
Sidney
In 2007 pop-star Britney Spears suffered one of the most public high-profile celebrity breakdowns of all time. Using first-hand accounts from witnesses this documentary reveals the sequence of events that led to that...
45 min
Britney At Breaking Point
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Following the career of singer Sinéad OConnor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop...
Nothing Compares
Love for the world and other people and about the fact that everyone deserves a second chance. When Patryk receives it from a priest Jan Kaczkowski does not even suspect how it will change his...
119 min
Johnny 2022
