Biographical films
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- 0506hk wu lang cheng shi
- 100 men
- 12 years a slave
- 12 years a slave
- 127 hours
- 2 turntables and a microphone : the life and death of Jam Master Jay
- 20 feet from stardom
- 20,000 days on earth
- 21 years : Richard Linklater
- 39 pounds of love
- 41 : his family, his triumphs, his legacy : inside the life of George H.W. Bush, an American leader
- 42 : the Jackie Robinson story
- 49 Up
- 8 1/2
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A bigger splash
- A brief history of time
- A constant forge : a film
- A decadent desolation : David Bowie 1976-1979
- A life ascending
- A life in dirty movies
- A man for all seasons
- A matador's mistress
- A mighty heart
- A model for Matisse
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A poem is a naked person
- A quiet passion
- A quiet passion
- A sense of wonder
- A single woman
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, revolutionary war double agent
- A state of mind
- A united kingdom
- A united kingdom
- A united kingdom
- A woman called Golda
- AKA Doc Pomus
- Abel raises Cain
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : sixteenth president
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adele #1 : one and only : the hits, her life, the story : unauthorized documentary
- Adele : chasing stardom
- Adele : fire and rain, the story
- Afro-Latino music
- After Tiller
- Afternoon of a faun : Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Ai Weiwei : the fake case
- Ai weiwei : never sorry
- Ain't in it for my health
- Al Capone
- Alexander
- Alexander Nevsky
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander the Great
- Ali
- Ali
- Alien boy : the life & death of James Chasse
- Aligarh
- All creatures great & small, Series 1
- All creatures great & small, Series 3
- All creatures great & small, The complete series 2 collection
- All eyez on me
- All eyez on me
- All eyez on me
- All eyez on me
- All good things
- All my babies : a midwife's own story
- All that jazz
- All that jazz
- All the money in the world
- All the money in the world
- All the way
- Amadeus
- Amadeus
- Amadeus : director's cut
- Amazing grace
- Amazing journey : the story of the Who
- Amelia
- Amelia
- Amelia
- Amelia Earhart : queen of the air
- America : the birth of freedom
- American : the Bill Hicks story
- American Jihadist
- American Sniper
- American made
- American radical : the trials of Norman Finkelstein
- American sniper
- American sniper
- American sniper : Tireur d'Ʃlite AmƩricain
- Amy
- Amy
- An American journey
- An affair of the heart : an up-close look at the man, his music, and the fans he inspires
- An angel at my table : a trilogy
- An evening with Quincy Jones
- An honest liar
- And everything is going fine
- Andersen : zhiznŹ¹ bez liļø uļø”bvi : kinoversiļø iaļø”
- Andy Warhol : the complete picture
- Angels in the dust
- Angry monk : reflections on Tibet
- Anita O'Day : the life of a jazz singer
- Ann Rule presents The stranger beside me : the Ted Bundy story
- Anna and the King of Siam
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank's holocaust
- Anne of the thousand days : Mary, Queen of Scots
- Annie Leibovitz : life through a lens
- Annie Oakley
- Anthropoid
- Anthropoid
- Anthropoid : OpƩration Anthropoid
- Antonio GaudĆ
- Around the world in 72 days : the audacious adventures of Nelly Bly
- Art Tatum : the art of jazz piano
- AsĆ era Pedro Infante
- Audubon
- Author : the JT LeRoy story
- Autumn Gem
- Awake : the life of Yogananda
- Awakenings
- Ayn Rand : in her own words
- BB King, The life of Riley
- Babbleonia : a documentary
- Bach's fight for freedom
- Bakhita : from slave to saint
- Bandit queen
- Barack Obama : the story of our 44th president
- Barrymore
- Battle of the sexes
- Be here to love me
- Beatles stories
- Beatrix Potter : artist, storyteller and countrywoman
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of a tribe called Quest
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of a tribe called quest
- Beau Brummell : this charming man
- Beauty is embarrassing
- Beauty mark
- Becoming Jane
- Becoming Jane
- Becoming Jane : Jane Eyre
- Bee Gees : in our own time
- Before night falls
- Before you know it
- Behind the candelabra
- Behind the wall
- Believe
- Belle
- Beloved sisters
- Beneath Hill 60
- Benjamin Latrobe : America's first architect
- Bernadette
- Bessie
- Betty Ford : the real deal
- Between heaven & ground zero
- Beuys
- Beyonce : life is but a dream
- Beyond the barbed wire : an artist's view of the Holocaust
- Bhutto
- Big Sur
- Big eyes
- Big joy : the adventures of James Broughton
- Biggie and Tupac
- Bird
- Bird by bird with Annie : a portrait of writer Anne Lamott
- Birth of the dragon
- Birth of the dragon
- Birth of the dragon
- Black August
- Black mass
- Black mass
- Black mass
- Black sun
- Black wings
- Blaise Pascal
- Bleed for this
- Bleed for this
- Bleed for this
- Blood and bones
- Blood brother
- Blue caprice
- Bob Dylan : revealed
- Bob Marley : stations of the cross
- Bob Ong's ABNKKBSNPLAko?! : (Aba, Nakakabasa na pala ako)
- Bob Ross : the happy painter
- Bobby
- Bobby
- Bobby fischer against the world
- Bolero : In search of Cezanne
- Bonhoeffer
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Borg vs. McEnroe
- Born on the fourth of July
- Born to be blue
- Born to royalty
- Boxers + ballerinas
- Brakhage
- Breaking a monster : the story of Unlocking the Truth
- Breathe
- Bridge of spies
- Bridge of spies
- British cinema collection : 8 acclaimed films
- Bronson
- Bruce Springsteen : glory days
- Buck
- Budhia Singh : born to run
- Bugsy
- Bugsy
- Bukowski : born into this
- Burroughs
- Burroughs
- Buster Keaton collection
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- By the people : the election of Barack Obama
- C.S. Lewis Beyond Narnia
- Calder : sculpteur de l'air
- California of the past : digital stories from the golden state 2007-2010
- Caligula
- Call me lucky
- Call the midwife, Season two
- Cameraman : the life and work of Jack Cardiff
- Camila
- Camille Claudel 1915
- Cantinflas
- Cantinflas : Āæno que no, Chato?
- Capote
- Carbine Williams
- Carmen & Geoffrey : the extraordinary lives of dancers Carmen de Lavallade & Geoffrey Holder
- Carrington
- Cartesius
- Cat dancers
- Catch a fire
- Catherine the Great
- Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker
- Center stage : Ruan Lingyu
- Cesar Millan : the real story
- Chaplin
- Charles Dicken's London, Works
- Charles Dickens : a concise biography
- Charles Dickens' London : the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era and the city that shaped him, Age
- Charlie Wilson's war
- Chase the stars : the cast of the motion picture The hunger games
- Chasing the dragon
- Chasing the dragon
- Chavela
- Che
- Che
- Che
- Che : Partie deux, guƩrilla, Part two, guerrilla
- Che : Partie un, l'Argentin, Part one, the Argentine
- Che, el Argentino
- Chely Wright : wish me away
- Chicano rock! : the sounds of East Los Angeles
- Chicken with plums
- Chris & Don : a love story
- Christine
- Chuck
- Chuck Close
- Churchill
- Churchill
- Circo
- Citizen Jane : battle for the city
- City of Gold
- Classic literature, Jane Austen
- Clinton
- Coat of many colors
- Cocaine godmother : the Griselda Blanco story
- Cocalero
- Coco Chanel
- Codebreaker
- Composing outside the Beatles : Lennon and McCartney 1967-1972
- Composing outside the Beatles : Lennon vs McCartney : 1973-1980
- Composing outside the Beatles : Lennon vs McCartney : 1973-1980
- Confirmation
- Constelaciones
- Control
- Convicts 4
- Cooper & Hemingway : the true gen
- Copenhagen
- Copying Beethoven
- Crazy wisdom : the life and time of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
- Creation
- Cross Creek
- Crown heights
- Crumb
- Cutie and the boxer
- D.W. Griffith : father of film
- Dalida
- Dallas buyers club
- Dallas buyers club
- Dallas buyers club
- DalĆ in New York
- Dancer
- Dangal
- Dangerous intimacy : untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Danielson : a family movie
- Danny says
- Danton
- Daredevil : the daring life of Betty Skelton
- Darkest hour
- Darkest hour
- David Bowie & Lou Reed : the Thin White Duke vs. the King of New York
- David Bowie, floating in a tin can : the missing years 1968-1972
- David Copperfield
- David Hockney : a bigger picture
- De-Lovely
- Dealt
- Death in El Valle
- Deceptive practice : the mysteries and mentors of Ricky Jay
- Decline of an empire
- Deep web
- Denial
- Denial
- Denial
- Denishawn : the birth of modern dance
- Denzel Washington spotlight collection
- Desert flower
- Deux de la vague
- Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929 : when art danced with music
- Diana
- Diana Vreeland : the eye has to travel
- Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten : The woman with the 5 elephants
- Die geliebten Schwestern : Beloved sisters
- Dina
- Directed by John Ford
- Discover Ireland & Scotland
- Django
- Documented : a film by an undocumented American
- Dolley Madison : America's first lady
- Don't look back
- Don't look back
- Don't stop believin' : everyman's journey
- Downfall : La chute
- Dragonslayer
- Drib
- Drifter : Henry Lee Lucas
- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music
- Dusty Springfield : once upon a time, 1964-1969
- Dwight D. Eisenhower : commander-in-chief
- Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood
- Eat pray love
- Eddie the Eagle
- Eddie the Eagle
- Eddie the Eagle
- Edgar Allen Poe : a concise biography
- Edie & Thea : a very long engagement
- Edward II
- Edward R. Murrow : voice of America
- Effie Gray
- Eight days a week : the touring years
- Eight days a week : the touring years
- Eisenstein in Guanajuato
- El Presidente : General Emilio Aguinaldo Story and the First Philippine Republic
- El abrazo de la serpiente / [videorecording] : Embrace of the serpent
- El cantante
- El cantante : The singer
- El charro inmortal
- El lute
- El mural
- El noa noa
- Elaine Stritch : shoot me
- Elis
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth I : the virgin queen
- Elizabeth R
- Elizabeth, the golden age
- Ella Fitzgerald : the legendary first lady of song
- Elle s'appelle Sabine : Her name is Sandrine
- Elton John : tantrums and tiaras
- Elvis by the Presleys
- Elvis thru the years
- Embrace of the serpent
- Emiliano Zapata
- Emiliano Zapata : el amor a la tierra
- Emily Dickinson : a concise biography
- Empire of silver
- Endless poetry
- England is mine
- England, my England
- Entertaining angels : the Dorothy Day story
- Erin Brockovich
- Ernest Hemingway : a concise biography
- Ernest Shackleton : to the end of the Earth
- Escapes
- Ethel & Ernest
- Eva Hesse
- Everest
- Everest
- Every little step
- Everyday sunshine : the story of Fishbone
- Everyone stares : the Police inside out
- Experimenter
- Extraordinary measures
- Factory girl
- Fall to grace
- Famous Nathan
- Far out isn't far enough : the Tomi Ungerer story
- Fat, sick, & nearly dead
- Ferlinghetti : a rebirth of wonder
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Finding GastĆ³n
- Finding Vivian Maier
- Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
- First person singular : I.M. Pei
- First position
- Five minutes of heaven
- Flic story
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Fold crumple crush : the art of El Anatsui
- Foo Fighters : back and forth
- For the love of Spock
- Forbidden Hollywood collection, Volume three
- Force of nature : the David Suzuki movie
- Foxcatcher
- Francesco, giullare di Dio : The flowers of St. Francis
- Francis : the pope from the new world
- Francisco : la elecciĆ³n
- Frank Serpico
- Franz Kafka : a concise biography
- Franz Schubert
- Frederick Douglass
- Free Angela, and all political prisoners
- Free state of Jones
- Free state of Jones
- Free state of Jones
- Freeheld
- Freeheld
- Frida
- Frida Kahlo
- Frisbee : the life and death of a hippie preacher
- From poverty to purpose : the Ben Carson story
- Frontline, Long walk of Nelson Mandela
- Frontrunner
- Frost/Nixon
- Frost/Nixon
- Fruitvale Station
- Fruitvale Station
- Fruitvale Station
- Fu cheng : Floating city
- Fu ping : Duckweed / a film by Peng Hui
- Funny girl
- Gable and Lombard
- Gainsbourg : vie hĆ©roĆÆque
- Gainsbourg, a heroic life
- Game face
- Garrison Keillor : the man on the radio in the red shoes
- Gaudi's La Familia Sagrada
- Genghis Khan : to the ends of the earth and sea
- Genghis Khan : to the ends of the earth and sea
- Genius on hold
- Genius within, The inner life of Glenn Gould
- George Harrison : living in the material world
- George Washington : first President
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gerhard Richter painting
- Gerry & the Pacemakers : it's gonna be all right, 1963-1965
- Get on Up
- Get on up
- Get on up : the James Brown story
- Ghostlight
- Gilbert : a Gilbert Gottfried story
- Gimme danger
- Girl model
- Glamourpuss : the Lady Gaga story
- Gleason
- Glen Campbell : I'll be me
- Gloria
- Glory road
- God with us
- Gonzo : the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Good morning, Vietnam
- Good night, and good luck
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goodfellas
- Goya
- Goya, or, the hard way to enlightenment
- Grace Kelly : the American princess
- Grace of Monaco
- Great Indian leaders & nations
- Great Native American warrior chiefs
- Great adventurers, Robert Falcon Scott
- Great adventurers, Sir Francis Drake
- Great adventurers, Sir Walter Raleigh and the Orinoco disaster
- Great masters, Robert & Clara Schumann, their lives & music
- Great women writers, Jane Austen
- Gregory Peck : his own man
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens : The Beales of Grey Gardens
- Guang yao yi sheng
- Gustave Courbet
- H.H. Holmes : America's first serial killer
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Handel's last chance
- Handel's last chance
- Hands of stone
- Hands of stone
- Hangmen also die
- Hannah Arendt
- Harlan : in the shadow of Jew SĆ¼ss
- Harley and the Davidsons
- Harold and Lillian : a Hollywood love story
- Harper Lee : from Mockingbird to Watchman
- Harry Dean Stanton : partly fiction
- Harry and snowman
- Heart of a dog
- Heart of a dog
- Hell to eternity
- Hemingway & Gellhorn
- Henrik Ibsen
- Her majesty, Mrs. Brown
- Herb and Dorothy
- Herman's house
- Heroes de carne y hueso
- Hickok
- Hidden figures
- Hidden figures
- Hidden figures
- Hidden in silence : a true story as heartbreaking and inspiring as Schindler's list
- Hilary and Jackie
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : some girls are born to lead
- Historical icons, Mandela, man of vision
- History for kids, Abraham Lincoln
- History kids, George Washington
- History kids, Sacagawea
- Hit so hard : the life & near death story of Patty Schemel
- Hitchcock
- Hitchcock
- Hitchcock
- Hitler : the untold story
- Hitler on trial : the true story
- Hitlerjunge Salomon : Europa Europa
- Holding the man
- Hollywood biographies : a salute to 50 of Hollywood's greatest leading ladies, The leading ladies
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1920s
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1940s, Stars, stripes and singing
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1950s, The golden era of the musical
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1980s, 1990s & 2000s
- Hollywoodland
- Hollywoodland
- Honor & sacrifice : the Roy Matsumoto story
- Horace Pippin : there will be peace
- Hotel terminus : the life and times of Klaus Barbie
- Howard Zinn : you can't be neutral on a moving train
- Howl
- Howl
- Howl
- Hu$tle
- Hua hun : A soul haunted by painting
- Huang Feihong : ying xiong you meng
- Huang jin shi dai : The golden era
- Huerta y Revueltas : literatura y revoluciĆ³n
- Huey Long
- Hunger
- Hunger
- Huxley on Huxley
- HuƩrfanos
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- I ain't scared of you : a tribute to Bernie Mac
- I am Big Bird : the Caroll Spinney story
- I am Bolt
- I am Bruce Lee
- I am Chris Farley
- I am Michael
- I am Steve McQueen
- I called him Morgan
- I can only imagine
- I can only imagine
- I can only imagine
- I remember Nelson
- I saw the light
- I saw the light
- I will : a tribute to African American woman
- I'll cry tomorrow
- I'll push you
- I'm not ashamed
- I'm not ashamed
- I'm not there
- I'm still here
- I'm your man
- I, Tonya
- I, Tonya
- I, Tonya
- Il bacio di Tosca
- Il divo : la spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti = the spectacular life of Giulio Andreotti
- In Nelson's footsteps
- In a dream
- In her footsteps : the story of Kateri Tekakwitha
- In my father's house
- In search of Blind Joe Death : the saga of John Fahey
- In the footsteps of the Holy Family
- In the heart of the sea
- In the heart of the sea
- In the matter of Cha Jung Hee
- Infamous
- Ingrid Bergman : in her own words
- Into the storm
- Into the wild