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Country: Sweden, Norway
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1974
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894 when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europes most maligned and controversial artist...
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1974
210 min
Edvard Munch
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 2015
An exploration of the life and music of Miles...
2015
100 min
Miles Ahead
Country: India
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2016
Indian biographical sports film directed by Tony DSouza based on the life of the former Indian international cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin. It will star Emraan Hashmi in the lead role...
2016
130 min
Azhar
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Drag Becomes Him provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of internationally acclaimed drag performer Jinkx...
82 min
Drag Becomes Him
Country: Estonia
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 2008
An ethnographic musical drama about a Seto regional ethnic minority in South-Eastern Estonia folk-singer Hilana...
2008
94 min
Taarka
Genre: Biography
The series profiles notable figures of the Old West through interviews with descendants and historians; and archival...
E11
Legends & Lies: Season 2
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Year: 2004
Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife...
2004
125 min
De-lovely
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Year: 1956
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siams...
1956
133 min
The King And I
Country: United Kingdom, Japan, United States
Year: 1991
A film about the life and work of the cosmologist Stephen Hawking who despite his near total paralysis is one of the great minds of all...
1991
80 min
A Brief History Of Time
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal...
123 min
I Saw The Light
Country: Australia, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2014
Marlene Cummins breaks a forty-year silence to tell the story of her abuse in the Australian Black protest movement to overcome her demons of...
2014
53 min
Black Panther Woman
Country: United States, India
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 2012
Krishna Das is on a journey to India to discover legendary spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba through drug addiction and depression to his eventual emergence as a world-famous Kirtan...
2012
74 min
One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das
A retrospective look at the life and work of influential electronic music DJ Adam Goldstein known as DJ...
97 min
As I Am: The Life And Times Of Dj Am
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Year: 1971
Derby is a fascinating look at the world of 1970s professional Roller Derby. Features lots of on-track action as well as an off-track behind the scenes look at the lives of the Roller...
1971
93 min
Derby
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1960
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. Bull Halsey Jr. from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at...
1960
115 min
The Gallant Hours
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1996
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple ambitious youth to her superstar pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness only knowing seduction but not...
1996
139 min
Norma Jean & Marilyn
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
In this sometimes disturbing documentary the drugs and alcohol problems of the American working class are studied from the perspective of an Irish...
Rednecks + Culchies
A document of this artists courageous and sometimes darkly humorous response to a death sentence a diagnosis of ALS. The film traces his life his career and his adaptations switching...
Jon Imber's Left Hand
Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends his love for a girl who doesnt know he exists and a dysfunctional family life he is struggling to find his place in the...
70 min
Memoria
Country: Italy
A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series originally broadcast to mark his...
50 min
Montalbano And Me: Andrea Camilleri
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughters initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment love and...
95 min
The Last Man On The Moon
Year: 1995
Biographical account of Americas President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Trumans rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan...
1995
135 min
Truman (1995)
Country: Brazil, United States
Elena a young Brazilian woman travels to New York with the same dream as her mother to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the...
Elena
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of JFKs assassination and spends his first year in office to quickly pass the Civil Rights...
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All The Way
Country: Bhutan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Year: 2006
Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons magic murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibets greatest...
2006
90 min
Milarepa
Country: France
Genre: Biography, History
Year: 1966
1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarins fiscal advisor Colbert warns against Fouquet the...
1966
The Rise Of Louis Xiv
Country: Norway
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60 min
Inside Pink Floyd: A Critical Review 1975-1996
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
The Winding Stream is a 90-minute High Definition music history documentary-in-progress that tells the story of the American roots music dynasty the Carters and the Cashes. Starting with...
The Winding Stream
Set in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest the film unearths the history of land art during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. Troublemakers is ultimately a story...
72 min
Troublemakers: The Story Of Land Art
Peles meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading to Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical...
107 min
Pelé: Birth Of A Legend
Country: France, Germany, Canada
Jesse Owens quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics where he faces off against Adolf Hitlers vision of Aryan...
134 min
Race
Year: 2000
2000
King Of The World
Churchill's Girl
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy
Year: 1988
This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards one of the thieves involved in The Great Train Robbery of...
1988
91 min
Buster
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Rejected by Hollywood and facing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos happy to create their effects in cinema troubled to suffer them in...
105 min
Eisenstein In Guanajuato
At the height of his fame his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890s Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic...
The Trials Of Oscar Wilde
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist...
122 min
Neerja
Year: 1999
Orson Welles produces his greatest film Citizen Kane 1941 despite the opposition of the films de facto subject William Randolph...
1999
86 min
Rko 281
Country: Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Austria, France
Year: 2007
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s Erik is accepted by the Danish...
2007
The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
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Genre: Biography | Documentary | Music
Year:
This definitive biography is crammed with rare archive footage of Elvis in action in live performances from throughout his career from the USS Hancock to his legendary 68 comeback special and capturing his renowned charm and charisma from famous movies. Encompassing his rise to fame his military service his turbulent home life his triumphant return to the stage and finally his tragic death in...
Elvis Presley - The True Story Of
Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Biography, Family, Sport
A young gymnasts Olympic aspirations are crushed after a debilitating...
Full Out
Year: 2003
Biography of 1940s sex goddess Rita Hayworth. Born Margarita Cansino she studied dancing from the age of 5 and was soon part of the familys night club act. By age 18 she was married and...
2003
59 min
Rita
Year: 1955
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother Katie Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood...
1955
117 min
I'll Cry Tomorrow
MY BEAUTIFUL BROKEN BRAIN is 34 year old Lotje Sodderlands personal voyage into the complexity fragility and wonder of her own brain following a life changing hemorrhagic stroke....
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Country: N/A
Genre: Biography | Crime | Documentary | History | Sport
Team Foxcatcher
Trash is a coming of age drama set amongst the poverty stricken trailer parks of the deep South. In a spiraling tale of hatred love and loyalty two teenage friends realize that the only...
Trash 1999
A personal accessible look at an artist - Kevin Barnes frontman of the endlessly versatile indie pop band of Montreal - whose pursuit to make transcendent music at all costs drives him...
77 min
The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
Friends and colleagues talk about the life and career of the enigmatic and iconic British singer Dusty...
Definitely Dusty
Also known as The Canadian Crippler Chris Benoit is a superstar in amongst the hallowed ranks of WWE. Rising from humble beginnings in the Stampede Wrestling game Benoit has won over a...
360 min
Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story
Its 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty often humorous reminiscences to project a riveting portrait of the lady and her music 4 months before her...
Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill
Genre: Biography, Family
After a near-fatal accident on a horse the experts thought was nothing special a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping...
108 min
A Sunday Horse
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
The story of Eddie Edwards the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter...
106 min
Eddie The Eagle
Genre: Biography, Musical
A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre...
120 min
Shakespeare Live! From The Rsc
A true story of Dr. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who was suspended from his job because of his sexual...
114 min
Aligarh
Country: United Kingdom, France, Spain, United States
Year: 1967
George Armstrong Custers love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big...
1967
143 min
Custer Of The West
Roy Orbison: One Of The Lonely Ones
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Fact-based drama chronicling the story of two determined sisters who battled the prejudice of a male-dominated sport to become world-class drag...
89 min
Right On Track
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton...
Nina
Country: United States, New Zealand
Year: 2010
What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck chance instinct? I Survived allows survivors to explain in their own words...
2010
E2
I Survived...: Season 6
