Type: Movies
Genre: Biography
1153 content found
Free State of Jones 2016

Set during the Civil War, Free State of Jones tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Matthew McConaughey,Gugu Mbatha-Raw,Mahershala Ali,Keri Russell

6.7 IMDB Rating 8,852 Views
Kilo Two Bravo 2014

In September 2006, a 3 man patrol of Paras sets off from their outpost overlooking Kajaki Dam in southern Afghanistan, to engage the Taliban. As they make their way across a dried out river bed one of them steps on a mine left from the Russian occupation some 25 years before. His colleagues rush to his aid only to find they are surrounded by mines and every move threatens serious injury or death.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: David Elliot,Mark Stanley,Scott Kyle,Benjamin O'Mahony

7.1 IMDB Rating 4,110 Views
An American Crime 2007

Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children. Times are tough, and Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to a breaking point. What transpires in the next three months is both riveting and horrific.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Ellen Page,Hayley McFarland,Nick Searcy,Romy Rosemont

7.4 IMDB Rating 7,294 Views
One Night with the King 2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble

6.0 IMDB Rating 5,278 Views
Cadillac Records 2008

Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,473 Views
Three Identical Strangers 2018

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. Then they discover why.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Stars: Silvi Alzetta-Reali, Eddy Galland, Ron Guttman

7,8 IMDB Rating 7,940 Views
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 2017

detail the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth, a psychologist and inventor in her own right, and Olive Byrne, a former student who became an academic. This relationship was key to the creation of Wonder Woman, as Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals were ingrained in the character from her creation. Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive remained a couple and raised their and Marston's children together. The film is said to focus on how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding Wonder Woman's creation.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Luke Evans,Rebecca Hall,Bella Heathcote,Connie Britton

7.2 IMDB Rating 8,531 Views
Freedom Writers 2007

It's 1994 in Long Beach, California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program, Erin is unprepared for the nature of her classroom, whose students live by generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on. The only person the students hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death that she fully begins to understand what she's up against. And it isn't until she provides an assignment of writing a daily journal - which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless they so choose - that the students begin to open up to her. As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources provided to teach properly (which often results in her needing to pay for them herself through working second and third jobs), she seems to face greater resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as Margaret Campbell, her section head, who lives by regulations and sees such resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own idealistic way in life.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Hilary Swank,Patrick Dempsey,Scott Glenn,Imelda Staunton

7.5 IMDB Rating 13,074 Views
The Disaster Artist 2017

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Dave Franco,James Franco,Seth Rogen,Ari Graynor

8.2 IMDB Rating 8,222 Views
Agora 2009

Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slavery. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Although her former slave doesn't see it that way.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Rachel Weisz,Max Minghella,Oscar Isaac,Ashraf Barhom

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,927 Views
Kill the Irishman 2011

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,335 Views
The Great Debaters 2007

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,862 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,112 Views
Glory Road 2006

In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Josh Lucas,Derek Luke,Austin Nichols,Jon Voight

7.2 IMDB Rating 6,359 Views
The Jesus Film Project – The Story of Jesus – According to the Gospel of Luke 1979

Filmed on location in Israel at authentic biblical sites, this inspirational drama and commercial success retells the life of Christ.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Alexander Scourby

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,963 Views
Cornelis 2010

Cornelis is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden's greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist's intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Hans Erik Dyvik Husby,Malin Crépin,Helena Af Sandeberg,David Dencik

6.3 IMDB Rating 6,007 Views
Charlie Wilson’s War 2007

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,477 Views
Nowhere Boy 2009

The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,722 Views
Elvira Madigan 1967

Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships. Moreover, while on the run, Sixten meets a friend who tries to convince him to come back to his country and family.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Pia Degermark,Thommy Berggren,Lennart Malmer,Cleo Jensen

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,930 Views
The Post 2017

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks,Sarah Paulson,Bob Odenkirk

7.5 IMDB Rating 7,652 Views