Genre: Biography
Year: Before 2010
363 content found
Dangerous Minds 1995

LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance

6.5 IMDB Rating 13 Views
Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,133 Views
Holy Rollers 2010

In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug cartel.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser

5.9 IMDB Rating 4,048 Views
Assembly 2007

A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,015 Views
You Don’t Know Jack 2010

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Al Pacino, Brenda Vaccaro, John Goodman

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,991 Views
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,702 Views
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles

7.0 IMDB Rating 4,162 Views
Sophie Scholl The Final Days 2005

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,133 Views
Cromwell 1970

Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

7.0 IMDB Rating 180 Views
The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento

7.2 IMDB Rating 154 Views
God afton, herr Wallenberg 1990

A story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Károly Eperjes

6.5 IMDB Rating 291 Views
Restrepo 2010

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, War

Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney

7.4 IMDB Rating 9,290 Views
This Is Elvis 1981

The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Elvis Presley, David Scott, Paul Boensch III

7.6 IMDB Rating 213 Views
Chopper 2000

Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,878 Views
Hip hip hurra! 1987

The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Lene Brøndum, Pia Vieth

5.5 IMDB Rating 1,506 Views
Gandhi 1982

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi

8.0 IMDB Rating 190 Views
1939 1989

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Helene Egelund, Helena Bergström, Per Morberg

6.1 IMDB Rating 291 Views
Chapter 27 2007

A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander

5.6 IMDB Rating 373 Views
Young Andersen 2005

Drama about the difficult early years of Danish writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Simon Dahl Thaulow, Peter Steen, Stine Fischer Christensen

6.2 IMDB Rating 212 Views
Coal Miner’s Daughter 1980

The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm

7.5 IMDB Rating 354 Views