BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 79

Eddie Cantor and his wife Ida arrive at Warner Bros studios in Burbank, California, for a private screening of The Eddie Cantor Story Just before the film rolls, Cantor whispers, Ida, Ive never been so nervous in all my life T

A gripping story of a three month long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next

Legendary British rock band The Rolling Stones mark their 50th year together

A young woman tries to keep a positive attitude while battling breast cancer

A unique examination of the life long existential journey taken by a self made musician, his unforgiving ambition and self destructive determination to express himself

Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of Americas first shock jock, Washington D C radio personality Ralph Petey Greene

In some parts of the world, children whose parents are sent to prison and who lack other guardians are locked away along with their parents This eye opening documentary tells the story of what it means for a child to grow up in pris

This documentary looks at architecture and design team Diller Scofidio + Renfro through the lens of two important urban projects the High Line and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

A documentary on the life of comedian, Chris Farley

The Hip Hop Fellow follows Grammy Award winning producer 9th Wonders tenure at Harvard University as he teaches The Standards of Hip Hop course, conducts research for his thesis and explores the importance of hip hops history cul

In 1960s, a British playwright attempts to reconstruct the life of real life 17th century English composer Henry Purcell even though little is known about him Purcells life is reenacted and his music performed

The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger

Sara is a a 13 year old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identi

In 1796, Captain George Bryan Beau Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Princes personal advisor

Singer boy makes good woos initially reluctant lass who then in behind every successful man theres a tough woman way, pushes and stands by his struggle to success and standard to Finn singing star success, through alcoholism prob

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt Sir Dirk Bogarde, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences

When a teenager reveals that she is gay to her devout Mormon parents, they decide to send her to a conversion therapy home in Utah

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note

Story about Amber Hagerman who was 9 years old when she was abducted while riding her bicycle, prompting her mother to seek out a system that alerts the nation of abducted children, we know that to be called an Amber Alert today

Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962 Eight years later, he died but friends questioned the cause of his death

Chris Bertishs pursuit of paddling into giant waves culminates in the worlds premier big wave surfing competition at Mavericks, in Half Moon Bay, CA Moments after nearly drowning, Bertish takes the world by storm

A documentary on legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan

The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow

The true story of Don Smiths heroic experience at the Battle of the Bulge while with the 94th Infantry

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native lan

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on dea

The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the childrens book author and creator of the fantasy world Oz

The tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong, two low end porn actors who sought fame but gained infamy

Composer Gustav Mahlers life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife discuss their failing marriage during a train journey

The untold story of Mahendra Singh Dhonis journey from ticket collector to trophy collector the world cup winning captain of the Indian Cricket Team

The story of the man who brought high ranking German Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice

A killer bandit decides to become a politician in order to avenge deaths in his family

The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgans 3D documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Raus

The story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991

A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J P Morgans daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light

Long before faith based films became a regular feature of mainstream movie theaters, there was The Cross and The Switchblade The story of Pastor David Wilkerson and gang member, Nicki Cruz