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Country: United States, Mexico
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1989
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and...
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1989
127 min
Fat Man And Little Boy
Country: Israel, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1975
Louis Lepke Buchalter is head of Murder Inc. the syndicate that spattered the headlines of the day with...
1975
110 min
Lepke
Country: United States, Canada, Germany, Mexico
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2013
Mr. Angel chronicles the extraordinary life of transgender activist and porn pioneer Buck Angel. He survived addiction prostitution and suicide and now tells a moving story of a mans...
2013
68 min
Mr. Angel
Country: United States
Year: 2020
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness...
2020
83 min
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
Year: 1956
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van...
1956
122 min
Lust For Life
Country: United States, Australia
Year: 2014
This is a story about an 84 year-old-woman trying to take down the third largest industry in the world. Jean Hill a self-proclaimed warrior leads historic Concord Massachusetts on...
2014
82 min
Divide In Concord
Country: France, United States
Year: 2007
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isnt...
2007
112 min
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Country: Canada, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2006
In 1458 five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk eighteen cardinals met in Rome to elect a new pope. A 27-year-old Spanish cardinal Rodrigo Borgia learns to play a very dangerous game; how to survive his first...
2006
100 min
The Conclave
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Year: 2019
In the beginning of WWII with Britain becoming desperate Churchill orders his new spy agency - SOE - to recruit and train women as...
2019
123 min
A Call To Spy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2003
A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario Rodney...
2003
94 min
Mayor Of The Sunset Strip
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 1991
A film based on the home-run legends...
1991
99 min
Babe Ruth
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Narrated by Robert Picardo this documentary takes you through the detailed history of an extraordinary paradise known as the Bolsa Chica Wetlands now threatened by real estate developers builders and city...
50 min
Restoration Of Paradise
Country: Portugal
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
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111 min
The Metamorphosis Of Birds
The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinems itinerant childhoods influence on her life as a writer activist and organizer for womens rights...
139 min
The Glorias
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1981
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences the other notices their differing...
1981
My Dinner With Andre
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 2002
The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry...
2002
105 min
Auto Focus
Year: 1965
An all-star large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus...
1965
260 min
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1994
In 1915 T.S. Tom Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Toms poetry...
1994
115 min
Tom & Viv
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1995
The exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague and in the process falls in love with an equally poor...
1995
117 min
Restoration 1995
Country: Italy, Germany, United States, France, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Austria, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
In the foreign land of Canaan lives Isaac son of Abraham with his clever strong-willed wife Rebekah and his twin sons Esau and Jacob. The first-born Esau is a strong and fearless...
91 min
Jacob 1994
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Poland
Year: 2005
Genghis Khan ruthless leader of the Mongols and sovereign over the vastest empire ever ruled by a single man was both god and devil - not just in the Middle Ages but for centuries to...
2005
58 min
Genghis Khan
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1984
Director Michael Apted interviews the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven...
1984
136 min
28 Up
Year: 1970
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...
1970
52 min
7 Plus Seven
Year: 1983
In 1930s Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Floridas backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men editor and confused neighbors but soon she connects and writes The Yearling a classic of American...
1983
Cross Creek
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 2000
Kuki a divorced Italian socialite changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann a man she doesnt know well and she moves to Kenya...
2000
114 min
I Dreamed Of Africa
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Year: 1997
Based on the life of Olympic hopeful Steve Prefontaine a long distance runner who lived in Oregon and died...
1997
106 min
Prefontaine
Country: United Kingdom, India
The movie tells the story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994. For five years she was prosecuted by the Indian police and turned into a...
119 min
Bandit Queen
Year: 2004
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien...
2004
Something The Lord Made
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Genre: Biography | Drama
Year: 2001
2001
Nowhere In Africa
Year: 1973
This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrixs untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done but some of the information in it needs...
1973
98 min
A Film About Jimi Hendrix
Country: West Germany, Mexico, Peru
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1972
In the 16th century the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El...
1972
95 min
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1935
A tyrannical ship captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law...
1935
132 min
Mutiny On The Bounty
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Becoming chronicles the origin stories of entertainers and athletes in their own words. Each subject takes a trip down memory lane for an intimate look at the struggles and successes that led them to where they are...
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Becoming: Season 1
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Year: 1964
The story of a Native American girl abandoned on a tiny island who is protected by a wild...
1964
93 min
Island Of The Blue Dolphins
Year: 1971
In 17th-century France Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed...
1971
The Devils
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 2008
Inspired by the life of Hank Garland CRAZY is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the...
2008
Crazy
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
A new take on the Manson Family murders with a keen focus on Charles Manson...
180 min
Helter Skelter
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Year: 1982
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup détat in September 1973 his wife and father try to find...
1982
Missing 1982
Country: Canada, Belgium, United States, Australia, France
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Year: 2012
Documentary feature following one womans quest to uncover why her biological clock hasnt started ticking before she runs out of time. Armed with insight from those that write and think...
2012
Generation Baby Buster
The biographical story of Michelangelos troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius...
138 min
The Agony And The Ecstasy
Genre: Short, Biography, Drama, Sci-Fi
Universal envoy Valiant Thor meets with President Eisenhower in 1957 and is put on VIP status for 3...
20 min
Stranger At The Pentagon
Year: 2018
Hal Ashbys obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics including Harold and Maude Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola Scorsese and...
2018
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Hal (dub)
Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the Stockholm...
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The Stockholms
Country: Japan, United States, Canada
Year: 1987
The disruptions caused in the life of 13 year old Kenny born with underdeveloped legs removed to replace other missing bones at 6 months old when a French film company comes to do a film...
1987
The Kid Brother 1987
Genre: Biography
59 min
Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Year: 1977
Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico. What Evel doesnt know is that theyre planning to kill him and use his body to ship cocaine into the U.S. His...
1977
Viva Knievel!
Country: Norway
Sonja - The White Swan is the story about Sonja Henie one of the worlds greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a...
113 min
Sonja: The White Swan
Year: 1957
George Babyface Nelson became one of the most important gangsters of 1930s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allied himself with John...
1957
85 min
Baby Face Nelson
Art of Darkness is a feature documentary intimately profiling controversial painter and performance artist Bryan Lewis Saunders. Bryan is renowned for his commitment to producing a self...
Art Of Darkness 2014
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 2016
Through diary entries this documentary follows the life and death of homeless woman Linda Bishop and her struggles with starvation sanity and...
2016
97 min
God Knows Where I Am
Country: India
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil...
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petits daring but illegal high-wire routine performed between New York Citys World Trade Centers twin towers in 1974 what some consider the artistic crime of the...
Man On Wire
The story of Ryan White a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII which was used to control this...
The Ryan White Story
Country: Australia
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
The story of 1970s musician and activist Helen...
116 min
I Am Woman
Genre: Biography, Family, History
HE MADE THOUSANDS OF FANS CHEER BUT NEVER HEARD ONE. William Dummy Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800s. Being Deaf he introduced Hand Signals for...
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The Silent Natural
Country: United Kingdom, France
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible singing...
Fairy Florence (sub)
Fairy Florence (dub)
Year: 2015
A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora...
2015
89 min
Everything Is Copy
