BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 17

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs

Teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton overcomes the odds and her own fears of returning to the water after losing her left arm in a shark attack

Based on writer Susanna Kaysens account of her 18 month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally

After a near fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before hes caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner of war camp

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Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIAs role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contrasfreedom fighters in Nicaragua

Story of singer Fanny Brices stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful

A young teacher inspires her class of at risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school

A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi occupied Netherlands

Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960s Tennessee

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos

Biography of pro basketball player Pistol Pete Maravich, who died suddenly in 1988 at age 40 from a heart attack

The untold true American story of an orphan boy from the heart of the Mississippi Delta who rose to music stardom around the world and inspired a generation of fans against all odds

A mans coerced confession to an I R A bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well An English lawyer fights to free them

The life and times of Richard Pryor

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus

Behind every great mouse there is a man Armed with an ever growing imagination and eternal optimism, Walt begins to develop skills as an animator early in life He overcomes a variety of hardships to become one of the biggest icons

A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma

The story of how Benjamin Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas

1183 A D King Henry IIs three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he wont commit to a choice They and his wife variously plot to force him

A fictional story inspired by North Americas most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport

In 1890, a down and out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race

Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at 13 when sold as 4th wife Shes maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then McDonalds, where shes discovered and becomes intl top model 1997, she speaks up against female genital mutil

A documentary encompassing the lives of world heavyweight boxing champions, Vitali amp Wladimir Klitschko The first time in history two brothers have shared all the heavyweight world titles, this film explores their humble beginnings

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a citys water supply

In 1956, Ernesto Che Guevara and a band of Castro led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista

The story of Rubin Hurricane Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence

The story of the final years of the respected World War II German general, Erwin Rommel

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes

Boxer Rocky Grazianos biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947