Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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With a lightly humorous approach, the film explores human advances in the field of sciences. Both Apted and Paul G. Allen, director and film financer respectively, deploy segments of interviews with several scientists and researchers about…
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biographical film, documentary film
biographical film, documentary film
biographical film
Biographical documentary, documentary film
The film features discussions with Hayden concerning his life and career, intercut with clips and stills from his films. It follows the actor through several long and digressive afternoon conversations with the German filmmakers aboard the…
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biographical film, historical film, thriller film
Badamasi tells the story of Babangida from his origin in the village of Wushishi in Northern Nigeria to his joining the army and time as a Nigerian military head of state. It also portrays significant events in Babangida's life including t…
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Biographical picture, drama film
Amidst the protection of a fortified palace perched on the top of a mountain, a democratically elected president and his closest collaborators are getting ready for a commemorative celebration dinner. Foreign chiefs of state and dignitarie…
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In 1929, 25-year-old Brooklyn native Moss Hart lives with his parents and works through the summer so he can devote the winter months to writing plays. He is encouraged by his friend Joe Hyman, who provides both moral support and occasiona…
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Documentation, association football film, biographical film, documentary film
Adventure, Drama, biographical film, drama film
Leaving an arranged marriage to Reverend Rankin Barnes (James Stephens), Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes (Bertinelli) takes an interest in flying light planes in the 1920s, and soon rivals Amelia Earhart (Nance Williamson), breaking world sp…
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biographical film
In 1941, Ralph Lazo is a 16-year-old student at Belmont High School, an ethnically mixed school in downtown Los Angeles. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, Ralph's Japanese American friend, Jimmy Matsuoka, and his family are forced to sell their…
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Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Biographical picture
Monica makes it from a telephone operator to a national celebrity. But fame and party life take their toll.
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Biographical picture, Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
In the documentary, Berlin narrates his own life in various candid interviews. Many other artists (porn stars, photographers, writers, contemporaries) comment on his legacy in gay culture. John Waters says in the documentary that Berlin is…
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Biographical documentary
adventure film, biographical film, drama film
In 1567, Francis Drake and his cousin John Hawkins set sail from Plymouth, watched by Elizabeth Sydenham, soon to be a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth. The following year, the queen is most displeased when Drake brings news that the exp…
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Romance Film, biographical film, romance film
As described in a film magazine review, Nell Gwyn is first seen as an orange girl at the Old Drury Theatre in London. She attracts the eye of the King and he makes her one of the players at His Majesty's Theatre. She succeeds and winning t…
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The film tells the story of the first Hungarian Academy Award winner, Michael Curtiz (originally known as Mihály Kertész), who won the Best Director Oscar for Casablanca, a romantic film that film critics consider to be one of the best in …
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biographical film, drama film
In the opening minutes of the film, Richard Kelly (played by Cedric Sanders), is behind bars, having been arrested during the infamous Watts Riots for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Though he maintains that he is innocent, Kelly is…
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Political Documentary, documentary film
Jordana Horn in The Jewish Daily Forward states that: Budrus [is] a documentary by Julia Bacha that examines one West Bank town’s reaction to Israel’s construction of the security barrier. The town, with a population of 1,500, was set to b…
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LGBTQ-related film, documentary film
Having been born and grown during the Cuban Revolution, in 1980, Zaldívar was a 13-year-old jeering in the streets at the thousands of "Marielitos" leaving the island by boat for the United States. However, within weeks, he had become a Ma…
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Biographical documentary
Seeing Allred provides a biographical portrait of one of the most public women's rights attorneys, Gloria Allred, through archival footage and interviews with both her supporters and critics.
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Biographical documentary
In 1895, Theodore Roosevelt becomes New York City's police commissioner, where he radically reforms the police force and aggressively combats corruption despite resistance from powerful political bosses. U.S. President William McKinley app…
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