Genre: Biography
1404 content found
Wild Bill’s Run 2012

This is the strange but true story of snowmobiling outlaw Wild Bill Cooper. After attempting to lead an expedition from Minnesota to Moscow across the polar ice, Cooper returned home and embarked upon an audacious life of crime. Part Arctic adventure and part crime caper, WILD BILL'S RUN is an unforgettable ride with a true American folk hero.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Documentary

8.5 IMDB Rating 4,022 Views
The Color of Time 2012

The Color of Time is based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet CK Williams' collection of the same name. The film blends together adaptations of 11 of the poems to create a poetic road trip through CK William's life. The film takes us on a journey through several decades of American life from CK's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s to the early 1980s: CK and his wife Catherine are married with their son Jed. CK prepares for a reading of 'Tar' in New York City, and spends his nights struggling to write new poems, haunted by memories of his past. As CK drives to his reading in New York City, he remembers central moments of his life: we come to experience and understand both his relationship to love and loss, and how he found his calling as a poet through the women in his life. The film takes us back and forth between past and present, punctuated by voice-over from CK Williams' poems, recreating the experience of memory and exploring how the fragments of one's man life can be turned into poetic expression: his loving relationship to his mother, his first sexual experiences as a teenager, his first love and the struggle to preserve a form of innocence and wonder, the illness and loss of a close friend, and finally his life together with Catherine.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: James Franco,Mila Kunis,Jessica Chastain,Zach Braff

4.5 IMDB Rating 4,321 Views
Tracks 2013

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Lily Pearl,Mia Wasikowska,Philip Dodd,Fiona Press

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,108 Views
Seymour: An Introduction 2014

Director Ethan Hawke explores the life and lessons of piano teacher Seymour Bernstein.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Seymour Bernstein,Jiyang Chen,Ethan Hawke,Junko Ichikawa

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,414 Views
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 2013

Nelson Mandela is a South African lawyer who joins the African National Congress in the 1940s when the law under the Apartheid system's brutal tyranny proves useless for his people. Forced to abandon peaceful protest for armed resistance after the Sharpeville Massacre, Mandela pays the price when he and his comrades are sentenced to life imprisonment for treason while his wife, Winnie, is abused by the authorities herself. Over the decades in chains, Mandela's spirit is unbowed as his struggle goes on in and beyond his captivity to become an international cause. However, as Winnie's determination hardens over the years into a violent ruthlessness, Nelson's own stature rises until he becomes the renowned leader of his movement. That status would be put to the test as his release nears and a way must be found to win a peaceful victory that will leave his country, and all its peoples, unstained.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Idris Elba,Naomie Harris,Tony Kgoroge,Riaad Moosa

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,366 Views
Antarctica: A Year on Ice 2013

This feature-length film reveals what it is like to live and work at the bottom of the planet, in Antarctica, for a full year. The story is not from the point of view of scientists, but of the people who spend the most time there; the everyday workers who keep the stations running in the harshest place on the planet. Filmed over 15 years by Frozen Planet photographer Anthony Powell, the film features a unique insiders point of view, with unparalleled access, and never before seen stunning footage of the deep Antarctic winters.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Documentary

Stars: Genevieve Bachman,William Brotman,Michael Christiansen,Tom Hamann

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,168 Views
Sommeren ’92 2015

The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Ulrich Thomsen,Mikkel Boe Følsgaard,Cyron Melville,Esben Smed Jensen

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,319 Views
Jimi: All Is by My Side 2013

A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: André Benjamin,Hayley Atwell,Imogen Poots,Ruth Negga

5.6 IMDB Rating 4,181 Views
Ragamuffin 2014

Based on the life of Rich Mullins, a musical prodigy who rose to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation. An artistic genius, raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a callous father, Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel in the church, Rich refused to let his struggles with his own darkness tear him away from a God he was determined to love. As he struggled with success in Nashville and depression in Wichita, Rich desired most of all to live a life of honest and reckless faith amidst a culture of religion and conformity.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Michael Koch,David Leo Schultz,Mel Fair,Carson Aune

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,421 Views
The Perfect Wave 2014

The Perfect wave is a LOVE STORY, with four key pillars, a young mans love for surfing, adventure, a mothers love for her son, a young man falling in love for the first time, Gods love. The film takes the audience on a journey, as our hero searches for his 'perfect wave'. The journey has many unexpected turns, and twists, as our hero falls in-love and loses his way, but as fate would have it, jealousy ensues, and seeking to reconcile our hero travels to Mauritius where one event changes his life forever.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Scott Eastwood,Cheryl Ladd,Patrick Lyster,Rachel Hendrix

4.7 IMDB Rating 3,932 Views
Admiral 2015

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by the great Kingdom of England, France and Germany and the country itself is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the country's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.

Category: Action, Adventure, Biography

Stars: Frank Lammers,Sanne Langelaar,Barry Atsma,Lieke van Lexmond

7.1 IMDB Rating 4,460 Views
Yves Saint Laurent 2014

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Pierre Niney,Guillaume Gallienne,Charlotte Le Bon,Laura Smet

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,792 Views
Harry & Snowman 2015

Dutch immigrant, Harry deLeyer, journeyed to the United States after World War II and developed a transformative relationship with a broken down Amish plow horse he rescued off a slaughter truck bound for the glue factory. Harry paid eighty dollars for the horse and named him Snowman. In less than two years, Harry & Snowman went on to win the triple crown of show jumping, beating the nations blue bloods and they became famous and traveled around the world together. Their chance meeting at a Pennsylvania horse auction saved them both and crafted a friendship that lasted a lifetime. Eighty-six year old Harry tells their Cinderella love story firsthand, as he continues to train on today's show jumping circuit.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Harry DeLeyer,Harriet DeLeyer,Andre DeLeyer,Marty DeLeyer

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,715 Views
Paparoti 2013

Based on the true story of Kim Ho-Joong, who first appeared on Korean TV show STARKING on July 18, 2009. During the program, Kim Ho-Joong surprised people with his vocal abilities and also made people cry because of his background story. He grew up as a troubled kid who joined gangs, but because of his grandmother he began to sing in earnest.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Suk-kyu Han,Jin-woong Jo,So-ra Kang,Do-Yeon Lee

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,131 Views
Dare to Be Wild 2015

Irishwoman Mary Reynold's journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Emma Greenwell,Tom Hughes,Alex Macqueen,Janie Dee

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,523 Views
The Masked Saint 2016

"The Masked Saint" is based on a true story about one pastor's mission to help his community by risking his identity and returns to his former life as a wrestler. The triumphant story follows one man's journey and struggle between helping others and the consequences he faces doing this.

Category: Action, Biography, Crime

Stars: Brett Granstaff,Lara Jean Chorostecki,T.J. McGibbon,Diahann Carroll

4.7 IMDB Rating 3,325 Views
Marie’s Story 2014

Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Isabelle Carré,Ariana Rivoire,Brigitte Catillon,Noémie Churlet

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,367 Views
Trumbo 2015

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) recounts how Dalton used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice under the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Bryan Cranston,Michael Stuhlbarg,David Maldonado,John Getz

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,839 Views
Son of God 2014

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Diogo Morgado,Greg Hicks,Adrian Schiller,Darwin Shaw

5.7 IMDB Rating 6,147 Views
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz 2014

The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Tim Berners-Lee,Cindy Cohn,Gabriella Coleman,Cory Doctorow

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,693 Views