Biography Movies

A documentary on Baybie Hoover, a blind New York street musician.

The life story of American Leonard Bernstein who began conducting for the New York Philharmonic at the age of 25.

Story of the singer who came out of the Texas dustbowl to become the king of Honky Tonk. With his Fender Telecaster guitar, no-nonsense style, and lus...

The authors Johannes Unger and Sascha Adamek follow the traces of Ulrike Meinhof's life. In the documentary, contemporary witnesses who knew Ulrike Me...

Upon his return to France, sergeant Bakary claims the bride he had chosen. But she refuses this imposed marriage.

The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan looks at the story’s origins, the roaring 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s interest in writing. It looks at the...

Roy Hiroshi Matsumoto was an American soldier of World War II. A Nisei, Matsumoto was born in Laguna, California. When he was 8 years old, his parents...

Using photographs, interviews, home movies, and footage shot in Philadelphia and abroad, Family Portrait Sittings tells the story of the filmmaker's f...

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-W...

When Jules Verne was a child he used to dream of distant countries and continents, he tried to imagine what it was like there in those faraway places...

Since his discovery by Dr Dre in 1997, Eminem has achieved notoriety and commercial success in equal measures, and subsequently become the biggest Rap...

Biography - Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. did more than dream. Yet behind the glamour, fame and fabulous wealth, there lurked a darker side: a sick, isola...

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' is a 1992 American short documentary film about Margaret Caroline Anderson, who founded t...

Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate privately produced biography of FDR is a cinema and po...

"The Caruso of the trumpet," critics say. "Caruso? The Nakariakov of the tenor voice," they'll say soon. Portrait of the 27-year old genius from Gorki...