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Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Year: 1988
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat...
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1988
90 min
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Year: 2011
Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge examines the life of serial killer and rapist Carl Panzram who lived from 1891 to 1930. It examines how his life hardened him into a psychotic murderer. It also examines how a prison guard Henry Lesser forged a friendship with him and encouraged him to write an...
2011
Carl Panzram: The Spirit Of Hatred And Revenge
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 1995
The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch to the undisputed title of Heavyweight Champion of the World and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly never focusing for long on anything in...
1995
104 min
Tyson (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, War
Year: 1989
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to...
1989
120 min
Triumph Of The Spirit
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History, Musical
Year: 2000
When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by...
2000
75 min
Joseph: King Of Dreams
Country: New Zealand, United States, Switzerland, Japan
Year: 2005
For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand Burt Munro 1899-1978 has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s heart disease threatens his life so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles buys an old car builds a makeshift trailer...
2005
127 min
The World's Fastest Indian
Country: Canada
In the late 1930s a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as an ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the...
124 min
The Rocket: The Legend Of Rocket Richard
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 2012
At the end of 1952 with the best years of Hank Williamss career behind him he hires a local kid to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Years shows in West Virginia and...
2012
102 min
The Last Ride (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Romance, Sport
Year: 1942
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous Luckiest Man speech at his farewell day in...
1942
87 min
The Pride Of The Yankees
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Year: 1980
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci who discovered among others Frankie Avalon and...
1980
117 min
The Idolmaker
Year: 1951
Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso 1873-1921. He loves Musetta in his home town of Naples and then Dorothy the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Operas patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both womens fathers: to one because he sings; to Dorothys because he is a peasant. To New York patricians Caruso is short barrel chested loud emotional unrefined. Their appreciation...
1951
109 min
The Great Caruso
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Year: 1954
The biography of the Bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944 with a lot of his arangements partly in an authentic...
1954
115 min
The Glenn Miller Story
Genre: Biography, Western
Year: 1970
As one of the founders of the town of Lincoln John Chisum is increasingly worried as Lawrence Murphy moves in on the local stores bank and land by questionable means. Chisum and fellow honest ranch owner Henry Tunstall try and use the law but Murphy owns that too. Confrontation threatens and Tunstalls man Billy Bonney is not slow to get...
1970
111 min
Chisum
Year: 1959
The story of legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa. Since his youth all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Genes father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesnt belong there and leaves to join his friend Eddies band. Ethel Eddies girlfriend convinces...
1959
101 min
The Gene Krupa Story
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Year: 2008
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who at the age of eleven became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year...
2008
94 min
The Longshots
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2010
Its San Francisco in 1957 and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl the film recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist societys reaction the obscenity trial and animation that echoes the poems surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a...
2010
84 min
Howl
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Year: 2007
In the early 1980s legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day an Iowan who runs Funspot an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks...
2007
79 min
The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters
Year: 1950
Biography of Jackie Robinson the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...
1950
76 min
The Jackie Robinson Story
Year: 1999
This film tells the story of Rubin Hurricane Carter an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography...
1999
146 min
The Hurricane
THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination he uses his perceived disability as an asset and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and...
108 min
The Hammer (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Thriller, Western
Year: 1993
Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story which is then related to the...
1993
95 min
Cannibal! The Musical
Year: 1978
The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled from the days when Peggy Sue was Cindy Lou a song about his first girlfriend to the meteoric run of Thatll Be the Day up the charts to his marriage breakup with the Crickets reunion with the Crickets and untimely...
1978
114 min
The Buddy Holly Story
The Fighter is a drama about boxer Irish Micky Wards unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KOd by drugs and...
116 min
The Fighter
Genre: Biography, History, Romance, Western
Year: 1940
The true story of the famous Mormon leader Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two of his people Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the...
1940
Brigham Young
Country: Turkey
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Having been one of the most eminent scholars of the recent past Bediuzzaman Said Nursis Barla...
God's Faithful Servant: Barla
Country: United States, Germany
This biopic focuses on the relationship of Ernie Davis 1939-1963 a gifted African-American athlete and his coach from 1958 to 1962 at Syracuse University Ben Schwartzwalder 1909-1993. Schwartzwalder recruits Davis with the help of All-American running back Jim Brown. The civil rights movement is gaining steam; Davis experiences prejudice on campus in town and on the field sometimes...
130 min
The Express
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, War
The true life story of Ralph Waldo Petey Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s in Washington D.C. vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and tell it like it is. With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell...
118 min
Talk To Me
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family, Sport
Year: 2013
Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks until Kevin crashes on a Park City half-pipe barely surviving. As Kevin recovers from his injury Shaun wins Gold. Now all Kevin...
2013
The Crash Reel
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Year: 1985
Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thirty-two years after her untimely death in a plane crash in Tennessee her Greatest Hits album sold over six million copies. Loved by her fans today as much - if not more - than she was at the height of her fame the life the loves and most of all the voice of Patsy Cline is legendary. This film...
1985
Sweet Dreams
Year: 2009
Based on the true story of Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American Michael Big Mike Oher. Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne soon takes charge however as is her nature ensuring that the young man has every opportunity to succeed. When he...
2009
129 min
The Blind Side
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gangs leader he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far beyond the law will Saxon go?...
Beyond The Law
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music
Year: 1952
In the 1890s Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa leader of the Marine Corps Band meets Private Willie Little inventor of an instrument he calls the Sousaphone...and Littles girlfriend shapely showgirl Lily. To support his growing family Sousa leaves the Marines and forms his own band; Willie and Lily go along. Though hed rather write ballads Sousas marches bring him increasing fame; from their...
1952
Stars And Stripes Forever
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carrolls epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad Jims life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia a coach Swifty who takes unacceptable liberties...
The Basketball Diaries
Country: Brazil
Genre: Biography, Music
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Somos Tão Jovens
In February 2006 young Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high-school team practice. In a severe case of irresponsible and reckless teen-age driving and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles-per-hour spinning off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below. Luke...
The 5th Quarter
Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice...
103 min
Sing Your Song
Year: 2006
In 2003 the female country band The Dixie Chicks are at the top of their game being one of the most successful bands of all time. However with the US invasion of Iraq about to begin over frustrated worldwide objections about this needless war one of the Chick vents off the cuff in concert about being ashamed of US President George W. Bush. This statement sparks a firestorm of organized and...
2006
93 min
Shut Up & Sing
Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in Shine A Light a look at The Rolling Stones. Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary...
122 min
Shine A Light
Country: New Zealand
For over 20 years Shihad has defined New Zealand rock music. From their roots in Wellingtons furious 90s punk metal scene to the wild Berlin days the tragic overdose of their manager the international explosion of The General Electric and the infamous American name-change Shihad: Beautiful Machine asks- what went wrong?...
Shihad: Beautiful Machine
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised Doin What Comes Naturally. Frank Butler the star sharpshooter in Colonel Buffalo Bills show however knows full well thats not how The Girl That I Marry must be. Anyway not at least until he finds that My Defences are Down. Though Annie defiantly says Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better she realizes that You Cant Get a Man With...
107 min
Annie Get Your Gun
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Year: 2003
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa Antonio Banderas finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empires press campaign against him. To counter both of these he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles....
2003
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself
Year: 1997
The film tells the story of the life of Mexican Tejano style singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez and the progress of her career resulting in her No. 1 US...
1997
Selena
Country: Sweden, United Kingdom
In the early 1970s Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their heros...
86 min
Searching For Sugar Man
Year: 1956
Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime when hes finally caught and arrested. In jail he is undisciplined always getting into trouble. When he gets out after many years he has decided to start a new life. However he is immediately drafted to the army. But they cant keep him and he goes AWOL. Rocky discovers boxing as a way of earning quick money and is discovered as a new...
1956
113 min
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Based on an incredible true story of one mans fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War USA Solomon Northup Chiwetel Ejiofor a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty personified by a malevolent slave owner portrayed by Michael Fassbender as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive but to retain...
134 min
12 Years A Slave
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low his athletic skills were poor and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the...
Rudy
Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nations capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over...
Remember The Titans
Year: 1996
A dramatization of the life of Earl The Goat Manigault Don Cheadle with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after...
1996
Rebound: The Legend Of Earl The Goat Manigault
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent hes a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way hes a ticking time bomb ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his familys love something always seems to come between them. Perhaps its his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ but in...
Raging Bull
Country: Canada, United States
The story of World heavyweight champion boxer Charles L. Sonny Liston who was knocked down 2 minutes into a championship fight by a seemingly harmless right hook from Muhammad Ali. It would forever be known as the Phantom Punch. Liston later died under mysterious...
Phantom Punch
Country: India
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Sport, Thriller
Paan Singh Tomar is a Hindi-language film based on the true story of a runner employed by the Army and has won Gold medal at Indian National Games but forced to become notorious baaghi. It is directed by Tigmanshu...
135 min
Paan Singh Tomar
The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of...
Mr Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story
Country: France, United Kingdom
Year: 1992
In this up-close and personal portrait of vocalist and musician Nina Simone the singer herself and a number of friends relatives and connaisseurs tell excerpts of her path in music and life. Remarkably the documentary was able to follow Simone on a visit back to her childhood home and her mother and siblings are interviewed. Simone also discusses her participation in the civil rights movement...
1992
54 min
Nina Simone: La Légende
Country: South Korea
Based on the true story of Kim Ho-Joong who first appeared on Korean TV show STARKING on July 18 2009. During the program Kim Ho-Joong surprised people with his vocal abilities and also made people cry because of his background story. He grew up as a troubled kid who joined gangs but because of his grandmother he began to sing in...
My Paparotti
Michael Jordan: His Airness
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Music
Kate and Will Spicers brother Tom has Fragile X Syndrome the most common form of inherited learning disability. He is also a massive fan of Lars Ulrich from Metallica. They made a promise to Tom that they would get him to meet Lars. Toms dream is their promise. Together they went on a Mission to...
74 min
Mission To Lars
Bob Marleys universal appeal impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. The definitive life story of the musician revolutionary and legend from his early days to his rise to international super-stardom. Made with the support of the Marley family there is rare footage incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people...
144 min
Marley
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica California. The Z-Boys as they come to be known perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into...
Lords Of Dogtown
A revealing movie about the tumultuous life of Little Richard Penniman whose groundbreaking music revolutionized rock and roll. Growing up a social misfit in poverty Little Richards passion talent and flamboyance catapulted him into the limelight of rock music. His career was rocked by his homosexuality his fundamental beliefs and the pervasive discrimination within the music industry. We go...
Little Richard
