Biographical films
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- 12 years a slave
- 2 turntables and a microphone : the life and death of Jam Master Jay
- 39 pounds of love
- 49 Up
- 8 1/2
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful mind
- A beautiful mind
- A man for all seasons
- A matador's mistress
- A mighty heart
- A model for Matisse
- A quiet passion
- 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 woman called Golda
- Abel raises Cain
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln : sixteenth president
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- After Tiller
- Afternoon of a faun : Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Ai weiwei : never sorry
- Al Capone
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander the Great
- Ali
- Aligarh
- All eyez on me
- All eyez on me
- All good things
- All that jazz
- All the money in the world
- All the way
- Amazing grace
- Amazing journey : the story of the Who
- Amelia
- Amelia Earhart : queen of the air
- American : the Bill Hicks story
- American Jihadist
- American Sniper
- American radical : the trials of Norman Finkelstein
- American sniper
- Amy
- An evening with Quincy Jones
- Andersen : zhiznʹ bez li︠u︡bvi : kinoversi︠ia︡
- 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
- Anne Frank
- Anne of the thousand days : Mary, Queen of Scots
- Annie Leibovitz : life through a lens
- Anthropoid
- Antonio Gaudí
- Art Tatum : the art of jazz piano
- Así era Pedro Infante
- Author : the JT LeRoy story
- Autumn Gem
- Ayn Rand : in her own words
- BB King, The life of Riley
- Barack Obama : the story of our 44th president
- Barrymore
- Be here to love me
- Beatrix Potter : artist, storyteller and countrywoman
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of a tribe called quest
- Beau Brummell : this charming man
- Beauty mark
- Becoming Jane
- Before night falls
- Behind the candelabra
- Beloved sisters
- Beneath Hill 60
- Benjamin Latrobe : America's first architect
- Bhutto
- Big Sur
- Big eyes
- Bird by bird with Annie : a portrait of writer Anne Lamott
- Birth of the dragon
- Black August
- Black mass
- Black sun
- Black wings
- Blackkklansman
- Blaise Pascal
- Bleed for this
- Blue caprice
- Bob Marley : stations of the cross
- Bobby fischer against the world
- Borg vs. McEnroe
- Born to be blue
- Boxers + ballerinas
- Bridge of spies
- Buck
- Budhia Singh : born to run
- Bugsy
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- C.S. Lewis Beyond Narnia
- Calder : sculpteur de l'air
- Call me lucky
- Call the midwife, Season two
- Cameraman : the life and work of Jack Cardiff
- Camila
- Camille Claudel 1915
- Cantinflas
- Capote
- Carbine Williams
- Carmen & Geoffrey : the extraordinary lives of dancers Carmen de Lavallade & Geoffrey Holder
- Cartesius
- Catch a fire
- Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker
- Center stage : Ruan Lingyu
- 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
- Che
- Che : Partie deux, guérilla, Part two, guerrilla
- Che : Partie un, l'Argentin, Part one, the Argentine
- Chicken with plums
- Chris & Don : a love story
- Christine
- Chuck
- Chuck Close
- Churchill
- Circo
- City of Gold
- Clinton
- Cocaine godmother : the Griselda Blanco story
- Cocalero
- Coco Chanel
- Colette
- Composing outside the Beatles : Lennon and McCartney 1967-1972
- Composing outside the Beatles : Lennon vs McCartney : 1973-1980
- Confirmation
- Conor McGregor : notorious
- Control
- Convicts 4
- Copying Beethoven
- Creation
- Crown heights
- Crumb
- Cutie and the boxer
- Dallas buyers club
- Dalí in New York
- Dangerous intimacy : untold story of Mark Twain's final years
- Danny says
- Danton
- David Copperfield
- David Hockney : a bigger picture
- De-Lovely
- Dealt
- Death in El Valle
- Deep web
- Denial
- Desert flower
- Deux de la vague
- Diana
- Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten : The woman with the 5 elephants
- Dina
- Directed by John Ford
- Discover Ireland & Scotland
- Don't look back
- Don't stop believin' : everyman's journey
- Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
- Dream boat
- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music
- Dusty Springfield : once upon a time, 1964-1969
- 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
- El abrazo de la serpiente / [videorecording] : Embrace of the serpent
- El cantante : The singer
- El lute
- El noa noa
- Elaine Stritch : shoot me
- 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
- Emiliano Zapata : el amor a la tierra
- Emily Dickinson : a concise biography
- Endless poetry
- England is mine
- England, my England
- Erin Brockovich
- Ernest Hemingway : a concise biography
- Ernest Shackleton : to the end of the Earth
- Ethel & Ernest
- Everest
- Every little step
- Everybody knows... Elizabeth Murray
- Extraordinary measures
- Factory girl
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Final portrait
- Finding Gastón
- 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
- For the love of Spock
- Forbidden Hollywood collection, Volume three
- Force of nature : the David Suzuki movie
- Foxcatcher
- Franz Kafka : a concise biography
- Frederick Douglass
- Free state of Jones
- Freeheld
- Frida
- Frida Kahlo
- Frisbee : the life and death of a hippie preacher
- Frost/Nixon
- Fruitvale Station
- Fu ping : Duckweed / a film by Peng Hui
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- 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
- Genius within, The inner life of Glenn Gould
- George Washington : first President
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gerry & the Pacemakers : it's gonna be all right, 1963-1965
- Get on Up
- Ghostlight
- Gimme danger
- Gleason
- Good morning, Vietnam
- Good night, and good luck
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Goya
- Goya, or, the hard way to enlightenment
- Grace Kelly : the American princess
- Grandma Moses
- Great Indian leaders & nations
- Great Native American warrior chiefs
- Great adventurers, Sir Francis Drake
- Great masters, Robert & Clara Schumann, their lives & music
- Great women writers, Jane Austen
- Grey Gardens
- Guang yao yi sheng
- Gustave Courbet
- H.H. Holmes : America's first serial killer
- Handel's last chance
- Hands of stone
- Hannah Arendt
- Harlan : in the shadow of Jew Süss
- Harley and the Davidsons
- Harper Lee : from Mockingbird to Watchman
- Harry & Meghan : a royal romance
- Harry and snowman
- Hemingway & Gellhorn
- Henrik Ibsen
- Her majesty, Mrs. Brown
- Herb and Dorothy
- Hickok
- Hidden figures
- Hilary and Jackie
- History for kids, Abraham Lincoln
- History kids, Alexander Graham Bell
- History kids, George Washington
- History kids, Sacagawea
- History kids, The Wright brothers
- Hitchcock
- Hitlerjunge Salomon : Europa Europa
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1940s, Stars, stripes and singing
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1950s, The golden era of the musical
- Hollywoodland
- Hollywoodland
- Horace Pippin : there will be peace
- Hotel terminus : the life and times of Klaus Barbie
- Howl
- Howl
- Huang jin shi dai : The golden era
- Hunger
- Huxley on Huxley
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- I am Bolt
- I am Elizabeth Smart
- I am Michael
- I called him Morgan
- I can only imagine
- I remember Nelson
- I saw the light
- I will : a tribute to African American woman
- I'll cry tomorrow
- I'm not ashamed
- I'm not there
- I'm still here
- I, Tonya
- Il divo : la spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti = the spectacular life of Giulio Andreotti
- In Nelson's footsteps
- In a dream
- In my father's house
- In the heart of the sea
- In the heart of the sea
- Infamous
- Into the storm
- Invictus
- Invincible
- Ip Man 3
- Isaac Bashevis Singer : "--about a hidden God--"
- Itinerario de una pasión
- J. Edgar
- Jack Kerouac, King of the beats
- Jack London
- Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills
- Jackie
- Jackie Chan : kung fu master
- Jane
- Jane Austen, novelist, 1775-1817
- Jane's journey
- Jim : the James Foley story
- Jimi : all is by my side
- Jimmy's hall
- Jing xiong nü xia Qiu Jin
- Jiro dreams of sushi
- Jobs
- John Muir in the new world
- John Steinbeck
- John Wayne : American legend
- Jojo Siwa : my world
- Jon Stewart
- Julie & Julia
- Julius Caesar
- Just gender
- Justin Bieber : never say never
- Justin Bieber's believe
- Kabei : Our mother
- Kassim : the dream
- Ken Russell : at the BBC
- Killer queens
- Killing Kennedy
- Killing Lincoln
- King Georges
- Klimt
- Kundun
- Kurt Cobain : montage of heck
- L'amour fou
- LBJ
- La Bamba
- La vie en rose
- Landslide : a portrait of President Herbert Hoover
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Le métis de Dieu : the Jewish cardinal
- Le scaphandre et le papillon, the diving bell and the butterfly
- Legend
- Legends of Wimbledon, Pete Sampras
- Lennon naked
- Leonie
- Les Blank : always for pleasure
- Li kai Lei Feng de ri zi : Life after departure of Lei Feng
- Libertador : The liberator
- Lichnoe delo Anny Akhmatovoy : The Anna Akhmatova file
- Life in a day
- Life itself
- Limelight : [the rise and fall of New York's greatest nightclub empire]
- Lincoln
- Linsanity
- Lion
- Little ashes
- Lizzie
- Lomax, the songhunter
- Long day's journey into night
- Long strange trip : the untold story of the Grateful Dead
- Look at us now, Mother!
- Looking for Langston : a meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1907) and the Harlem Ranaissance : with the poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) : in memory of James Baldwin (1924-1987) : looking for Langston
- Loot
- Lorenzo's oil
- Los años de Fierro : The years of Fierro
- Louis Armstrong
- Love & mercy
- Love is the devil : a study for a portrait of Francis Bacon
- Love, Cecil : the life of legendy photographer Cecil Beaton
- Lovelace
- Loving
- Loving Pablo, hating Escobar
- Loving Vincent
- M.S. Dhoni : the untold story
- MacArthur
- Machine gun preacher
- Madame Curie
- Magic & Bird : a courtship of rivals
- Magician : the astonishing life and work of Orson Welles
- Magritte, le jour et la nuit
- Maiko : dancing child
- Man of a thousand faces
- Man on wire
- Mandela : long walk to freedom
- Mangore : for the love of art
- Manjhi : the mountain man
- Manson
- March on! : the day my brother Martin changed the world : -- and more stories about African American history
- Marcus Garvey : a giant of Black politics
- Margaret Thatcher : the iron lady
- Margot
- Marjoe
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910
- Marlene
- Marley
- Martin Luther King, Jr
- Marwencol
- Mary Cassatt
- Mary Cassatt
- Mary Kom
- Mary McLeod Bethune : champion for education
- Mary White
- Masterpiece, Churchill's secret
- Maudie
- Maurice Chevalier : a song in my heart
- Max Manus : man of war
- Meditate and destroy : a documentary on punk rock, spirituality, and inner rebellion
- Meet the Patels
- Meeting David Wilson
- Meetings with remarkable men
- Megan Leavey
- Mein Herz-Niemandem! : My heart is mine alone
- Mendelssohn : the Nazis and me
- Meredith Monk : inner voice
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- Meryl Streep
- Mesrine, Killer instinct
- Mesrine: Public enemy number 1 : L'ennemi public no 1
- Michael Jackson : life of a superstar
- Michael Jackson : never surrender
- Michael Jackson : searching for Neverland
- Michael Jackson : the life of an icon
- Michael Jackson : the secrets of a legend
- Miles ahead
- Milk
- Million dollar arm
- Miracle man : the story of Jesus
- Miracles from Heaven
- Mirza Ghalib
- Miss Potter
- Mitzi Gaynor : razzle dazzle! : the special years
- Modigliani
- Molly's game
- Mommie dearest
- Monet : shadow & light
- Monica & David
- Monkey business : the adventures of Curious George's creators
- Monseñor : the last journey of Óscar Romero
- Monsieur Vincent
- Monster
- Morelos
- Mother Teresa : the original, uncut, full-length movie
- Movin' on up : the music and message of Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions
- Mozart's sister : Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart
- Mr. Conservative : Goldwater on Goldwater
- Mr. Turner
- Mr. Untouchable
- Muhammad Ali : in his own words
- Mully
- My all American
- My friend Dahmer
- My run : the Terry Hitchcock story
- My wild Irish rose
- Napoleon's final battle
- Narnia & beyond : the chronicles of C.S. Lewis
- Native American legends
- Neruda
- Neruda
- Nina
- Nise : the heart of madness
- No dress code required : Etiqueta no rigurosa
- Noble
- Noma : my perfect storm
- Notorious
- Obscene : a portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
- One Direction : all for one
- One Direction : reaching for the stars
- One Direction : this is us
- One and not done
- Only the brave
- Oranges and sunshine
- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
- Our last tango
- Out of Africa
- Padre pio : Miracle man
- Papillon
- Papillon
- Papirosen
- Paterno
- Patrick : he ignited a flame of faith in Ireland
- Paul Bowles : the complete outsider ; a film by Catherine Hiller Warnow & Regina Weinreich
- Paul Robeson : world famous singer, actor, activist
- Paulo Coelho's best story
- Pawn sacrifice
- Pedro : the true story of Pedro Zamora
- Pele : birth of a legend
- Persepolis
- Phantom pain
- Phil Ochs : there but for fortune
- Phil Spector
- Philip K. Dick : the penultimate truth
- Pierrepoint : the last hangman
- Pinochet's last stand
- Piñero
- Pollock
- Poor little rich girl : the Barbara Hutton story
- Pope Benedict XVI : a profile
- Primo Levi's journey
- Princess Kaʻiulani
- Prodigal sons
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
- Public enemies
- Public enemy #1
- Queen Margot | La reine Margot
- Queen of Katwe
- Queen of the desert
- Quién diablos es Juliette? : Who the hell is Juliette?
- RBG
- Race
- Real boy
- Rebel in the rye
- Rebirth
- Red army
- Rem Koolhaas : a kind of architect
- Rembetiko
- Renoir
- Requiem for the American dream
- Richard Wright : writing is his weapon
- Rolling thunder and the gospel years : a totally unauthorized documentary
- Romulus, my father
- Ronald Reagan : an American journey
- Rosewater
- Rush
- Sachin : a billion dreams
- Sachin : a billion dreams
- Saint Laurent
- Sally Hemings : an American scandal
- Santoalla
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Sarah Vaughan : the divine one
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Saving face
- Scott Walker : 30 century man
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Selma
- Senna
- Sex positive
- Sgt. Stubby : an American hero
- Shadowman
- Shahid
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- Shidifu Jiabosi : Steve Jobs
- Shine
- Shirley Chisolm [sic] : the leader
- Shock and awe
- Shut up & sing
- Sketches of Frank Gehry
- Smash his camera
- Snowden
- Sobre las olas
- Solomon Northup's odyssey : twelve years a slave
- Song of granite
- Song of the lark
- Sophie Scholl : the final days
- Soul surfer
- Southside with you
- Speed Sisters
- Spotlight
- Stand and deliver
- Stella cadente
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs : one last thing
- Steve Jobs : the lost interview
- Steve Jobs : the man in the machine
- Straight outta Compton
- Stronger
- Suffragette
- Sully
- Summer in February
- Swimming in Auschwitz : survival stories of six women
- Séraphine
- Take every wave : the life of Laird Hamilton
- Talk to me
- Te Ata
- Tell them anything you want : a portrait of Maurice Sendak
- Temple Grandin
- Tennessee Williams : Orpheus of the American stage
- Tesla : born in light
- Testament of youth
- The 15:17 to Paris
- The 33
- The Adderall diaries
- The American presidents, 1945-2010, post war & contemporary United States
- The Beales of Grey Gardens
- The Benny Goodman story
- The Brandon Teena story
- The Brittany Murphy story
- The Danish girl
- The Dutch masters, Vermeer
- The Earp brothers : lawmen of the west
- The Galapagos affair : Satan came to Eden
- The Heineken kidnapping
- The Iceman
- The Iceman
- The Internet's own boy
- The Jesus guy
- The Jewish Cardinal : Le métis de Dieu
- The King and I
- The Martin Luther story
- The Post
- The Queen
- The Red Baron
- The Rookie
- The Runaways
- The Topp Twins : untouchable girls
- The U.S. vs John Lennon
- The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
- The back nine
- The beaches of Agnes
- The best of men
- The betrayal : Nerakhoon
- The better angels
- The birth of a nation
- The brothers Warner
- The case for Christ : one man's journey to solve the biggest mystery of all time
- The catcher was a spy
- The cats of Mirikitani
- The color of freedom
- The color of freedom
- The color of time
- The conquest
- The cultural philosophy of Paul Robeson : great artist, scholar and athelete
- The damned United
- The dark horse
- The death of Louis XIV
- The devil and Daniel Johnston
- The devil's violinist
- The diary of Anne Frank
- The disaster artist
- The duchess
- The edge of love
- The end of the tour
- The fifth estate
- The films of Michael Powell
- The first grader
- The founder
- The general
- The girl king
- The grandmaster
- The greatest love of all
- The greatest showman
- The happy film
- The horse boy
- The house of Suh
- The imitation game
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- The infiltrator
- The iron lady
- The jazz loft, according to W. Eugene Smith
- The killing of John Lennon
- The king
- The king's speech
- The lady
- The lady in the van
- The last emperor
- The last king of Scotland
- The last of Robin Hood
- The last sentence
- The last station
- The life of Emile Zola
- The lost city of Z