Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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biographical film, drama film, family film, historical film
The story is set in 1844 when a group of working-class people from the town of Rochdale came together to change the unfair society they were living in. Fed up with dishonest and corrupt shopkeepers selling poor quality products at high pri…
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biographical film, documentary film, drama film
Spring Hill College Professor Doug James rescues an abused puppy and sets out on a mission to change the laws in Alabama on domestic animal abuse. Teaming with local legislators, it took James six years to see the "Gucci Bill" finally pass…
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Biographical documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William S. Burroughs' bunker until his nephew Aaron Brookner unearths his s…
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biographical film, documentary film, historical film
biographical film, documentary film
Documentation, biographical film, documentary film
biographical film, documentary film, historical film
biographical film, drama film, musical film
biographical film, drama film
The Duke of Wellington goes to meet an elderly Maria Fitzherbert to inform her of George IV's death and she recalls how she had rebuffed George at their first meeting, in which he saved her from a Protestant rioter on the night on the Gord…
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biographical film
Biographical documentary
Biographical documentary, autobiographical film, documentary film
biographical film
biographical film, documentary film
biographical film
The story of famed Houston Astros baseball Pitcher J.R. Richard, from his early life in Louisiana, to his beginnings as a major baseball player in 1969, leading up to the massive stroke he suffered in 1980, leaving his only true Resurrecti…
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documentary film
The film explores the lives and relationships of five couples married for fifty years or longer. The couples discuss the issues that inform every long-term relationship. They recount stories of their shared journeys, from living room jazz …
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biographical film, romantic comedy
Linda is a single woman who must re-enter the dating world after undergoing a mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery due to cancer.
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biographical film, drama film, historical film
The film depicts the nuclear arms race that developed among the major powers during World War II, ultimately setting the stage for the Cold War. The story begins with the 1945 Meeting at the Elbe between American and Soviet forces and the …
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biographical film, drama film
The film revolves around Poppie Nongena, an Afrikaans/Xhosa South African whose life revolves around her family and finding stability in a period of immense upheaval in apartheid South Africa where women were forced by arrests. When Poppie…
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biographical film, documentary film
A Summer in the Cage is filmmaker Ben Selkow's feature-length documentary chronicling his friend Sam's battle with manic-depressive illness. The film follows Sam for seven years as he suffers delusional manic episodes, battles paralyzing d…
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biographical film, documentary film, historical film, sport film
Keoghan is seeking advice from Jonathan and Simon Kennett about re-enacting Harry Watson's 1928 ride in the Tour de France on period bicycles. Jonathan Kennett's advice to Keoghan is: I don't think that you know what you are letting yourse…
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biographical film, documentary film
American football film, biographical film
biographical film, musical film, romance film, war film
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from (assumed) alcoholism.
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