BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 82

Drummer Artimus Pyles experience as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the tragically fateful day that the plane they rented crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, MS on October 20th ,1977

Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich

Ayudia Vanesha Prescilla and Ditto Adipati Dolken have been best friends for 12 years And for all those times, Ditto has been secretly in love with her Until one day, Ayudia told him that shes gonna get married

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

How Frans Afman, a banker from the Netherlands, developed a new system for film financing, revolutionized independent filmmaking in Hollywood, but could not prevent it all from crashing down, when ambition of others turned into greed

Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan

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

Its been said that the first 21 years defines the career of an artist Few directors have single handedly shaken up the film establishment like the godfather of indie, Richard Linklater From the groundbreaking SLACKER to his innova

The untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their journeys from the late 1930s to the present day

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey Debuting in 1974, the LA based channels eclectic slate of movies

A film about real life musician Augustin Barrios Mangore, an influential and important composer and classical guitarist from Paraguay

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully rounded portrait of their brash and free sp

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber

While Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud wait for news from Huldrych Zwingli from the bloody battle of Kappel am Albis, the young Bullinger learns from Jud how things could get this far When Zwingli begins to preach as a priest in Zurich, the plague atta

An in depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa

The parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola Both left their hometown to conquer the art scene in Paris

George Adamson fights to save Kenyas wildlife Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn, he battles to keep the animals on his game reserve, and Kora, from dangerous poachers

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethovens life

The first film in forty years to be co produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent He joined the freedom fighters lead by Che Guevara in 1966 and was martyre

In 1897 Swedish engineer S A Andree with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon Eagle

The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research

A bio hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donors, a controversial and dangerous technique

Follows the highs and lows Wendy has experienced throughout the years, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show

Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made for TV movie previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother

The stirring true story of Franklin D Roosevelts battle with polio in 1921

The Brooklyn native street basketball legend Jackie Ryan

Documentary about notorious punk rock performer GG Allin

Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk h

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane 1941

A pseudo documentary on the life of Yves Montand, who plays himself, in this tribute to his long career During a musical tour, Montand returns to Marseille and revisits the many highlights of his life, meeting figures from his past

Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution

When an out of work actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that hes been wildly famous in a faraway land for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why

RB singer Natalie Cole narrates this docudrama about her life, adapted from her autobiography

Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found home at a Santa Monica laundromat Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimis passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywoods red carp

For the first time on the big screen, the film tells the fascinating story of one on the worlds most famous wines and how it exploded as a world phenomenon