BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 26

The Tillman Story (2010)

IMDb: 7.7
2010

Chronicles the life of the late Pat Tillman, who walked away from a multimillion dollar contract with the NFLs Arizona Cardinals in 2002 to join the Army but died from friendly fire in Afghanistan

My Father and the Man in Black (2012)

IMDb: 6.6
2012

The untold story of bad boy Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend

The Bell Witch Haunting (2013)

IMDb: 3.6
2013

The Robertson County Sheriffs Department released found footage of what was thought at first to be a murder suicide, is now believed to be the return of a centuries old demon responsible for Americas most famous paranormal event

The Conqueror Worm (1968)

IMDb: 6.8
1968

A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancee and kills her uncle

The Josephine Baker Story (1991)

IMDb: 7.1
1991

Born poor in St Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

IMDb: 6.5
2001

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug addicted father

Citizen Jane (2009)

IMDb: 5.5
2009

Jane Alexander, an attractive, athletic San Francisco woman, is enjoying a comfortable life in Pacific Heights with the man she loves, handsome, charismatic Tom ODonnell Janes idyllic

Bettie Page: Dark Angel (2004)

IMDb: 3.7
2004

Tells the story of the last 3 years of her brief career

Mad to Be Normal (2017)

IMDb: 6.0
2017

During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit

Mary Magdalene (2018)

IMDb: 5.9
2018

Twelve men heard and spread the message of Jesus Only one woman understood it

Adrift (2018)

IMDb: 6.6
2018

A true story of survival, as a young couples chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history

Alias Grace (2017)

IMDb: 7.7
2017

In 19th century Canada, a psychiatrist weighs whether a murderess should be pardoned due to insanity

Jimi Hendrix (1973)

IMDb: 7.8
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 revising in the light of new information uncov

The Egyptian (1954)

IMDb: 6.5
1954

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaohs court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets

Walt Disney Part 1 (2015)

IMDb: 8.1
2015

American Experience Walt Disney

Mary Shelley (2017)

IMDb: 6.5
2017

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein

Hillary (2016)

IMDb: 7.3
2016

The biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, as a boy, was raised in a strict family, but eventually has to rebel against his stern fathers backward ideals, to follow his own convictions He wants to climb mountains

Gia (1998)

IMDb: 7.0
1998

The story of the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s, from her meteoric rise to the forefront of the modeling industry, to her untimely death

Andrei Rublev (1966)

IMDb: 8.1
1966

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth century Russian iconographer St Andrei Rublev

Kundun (1997)

IMDb: 7.0
1997

From childhood to adulthood, Tibets fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywo

IMDb: 6.7
2017

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars

The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)

IMDb: 7.1
2010

Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)

IMDb: 6.6
2010

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk rock scene in Britain in the 1970s

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

IMDb: 8.1
2004

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

Reaching for the Moon (2013)

IMDb: 7.0
2013

A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares

Don King: Only in America (1997)

IMDb: 6.9
1997

A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bun

IMDb: 7.8
2019

A look inside the mind of serial killer Ted Bundy, featuring interviews with him on death row

Gentleman Jack (2019 )

IMDb: 8.2
2019–

A dramatization of the life of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall

Unplanned (2019)

IMDb: 5.8
2019

All Abby Johnson ever wanted to do was help women As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, she believed in a womans right to choose Until the day she saw something that changed everything

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018 )

IMDb: 8.0
2018

Docuseries looking back on the Jonestown Massacre on the 40th anniversary

Carnera: The Walking Mountain (2008)

IMDb: 5.6
2008

The life of Primo Carnera a k a Ambling Alp, Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob

The Best of Enemies (2019)

IMDb: 7.3
2019

Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C P Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration

ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (201

IMDb: 7.0
2019

A look at the short, mysterious life of blues legend, Robert Johnson, who was said to have made a deal with the Devil at a crossroads in rural Mississippi

Blue (1993)

IMDb: 7.3
1993

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarmans experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an expl

Charlie Says (2018)

IMDb: 5.9
2018

The tragic tale of an all American girl who was transformed into a cold blooded killer in the summer of 1969

Torvill & Dean (2018)

IMDb: 6.5
2018

Biopic of Britains most famous ice skaters