Genre: Biography
1298 content found
Pele 2021

Looks back at the extraordinary 12-year period in which Pelé, the only man to win three World Cup titles, went from young superstar in 1958 to national hero in 1970; a radical yet turbulent era in Brazil’s history.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Pelé

7,7 IMDB Rating 3,427 Views
De Gaulle 2020

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet

5,9 IMDB Rating 3,642 Views
The Dig 2021

An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James

7,1 IMDB Rating 4,053 Views
Unbroken 2014

The life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who joined the armed forces during the second world war. Only to be captured by the Japanese navy after a plane crash in the Pacific. During his capture, Louie must continue his fight by surviving through the war.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Jack O'Connell,Domhnall Gleeson,Garrett Hedlund,Miyavi

7.2 IMDB Rating 11,169 Views
A Beautiful Mind 2001

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Russell Crowe,Ed Harris,Jennifer Connelly,Christopher Plummer

8.2 IMDB Rating 11,286 Views
Invictus 2009

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Morgan Freeman,Matt Damon,Tony Kgoroge,Patrick Mofokeng

7.4 IMDB Rating 7,749 Views
Walk the Line 2005

While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter. Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix,Reese Witherspoon,Ginnifer Goodwin,Robert Patrick

7.9 IMDB Rating 11,911 Views
The Glorias 2020

The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem's itinerant childhood's influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights worldwide.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Janelle Monáe, Bette Midler

5.4 IMDB Rating 3,799 Views
Mank 2020

Follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941).

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried

4,228 Views
Serpico 1973

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire

7.7 IMDB Rating 5,869 Views
Hamilton 2020

The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson

8.6 IMDB Rating 7,263 Views
Target Number One 2020

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Josh Hartnett, Stephen McHattie, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie

7,4 IMDB Rating 5,655 Views
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 2020

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: David Attenborough

3,673 Views
The Young Victoria 2009

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,804 Views
Men of Honor 2000

The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence and ultimately triumph.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis

7.2 IMDB Rating 8,625 Views
Moneyball 2011

Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright

7.6 IMDB Rating 11,520 Views
The Sound of Music 1965

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. Austria is about to come under the control of Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family, Kids

Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn

8.0 IMDB Rating 9,121 Views
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl 2020

Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi, Viineet Kumar

3,847 Views
True History of the Kelly Gang 2019

Based on Peter Carey's novel. The story of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from authorities during the 1870s.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Orlando Schwerdt

6.6 IMDB Rating 5,401 Views
The Doors 1991

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,343 Views