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Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,019 films · Page 72.

The Day After Trinity (1981)

Biographical documentary, documentary film

The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. It features interviews with several Manhattan Pr…

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The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)

Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, war film

Dr. Wassell is a missionary doctor from Arkansas, who had in the past worked in China (which is shown in the first half of the film as a series of flashback (narrative)s) and after the Japanese invasion of Batavia (Dutch East Indies) finds…

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Eroica (2003)

Drama, biographical film, musical film

The film is set in Vienna on 9 June 1804, the date of the private, first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, later to be known as the 'Eroica'. The performance, and most of the action in the film, takes place at the palace of one of…

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The Hitler Gang (1944)

biographical film, documentary film, drama film, war film

In 1918 a young soldier called Adolf Hitler recovers from being gassed during World War I. At the behest of the German Army, he joins German nationalistic parties, espousing theories that Germany lost the war because they were stabbed in t…

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Ring of Fire (2013)

biographical film

This is the story of the decades-long love affair between June Carter and her husband, Johnny Cash, a love that was stretched to the breaking point by Johnny's addiction to pills.

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Rabindranath Tagore (1961)

biographical film, documentary film

Narrated by Satyajit Ray, the film begins with the funeral procession of Rabindranath Tagore. Briefly mentioning about Kolkata, then known as "Calcutta", the documentary explains the Tagore lineage, starting with Dwarkanath Tagore. While d…

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Rembrandt (1936)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

The film is set in mid 17th-century Amsterdam. Rembrandt's wife Saskia dies after a long illness. She was not only his great love, but also his only model.

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Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, musical film

In the 1890s, Sergeant Major John Philip Sousa, director of the United States Marine Band, leaves the Marine Corps after his enlistment expires to form his own band. He must do so because he is not paid enough by the Corps to provide for h…

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Tom of Finland (2017)

Biographical picture

Touko Laaksonen returns home after serving in World War II. In post-war Helsinki, he makes a name for himself with his homoerotic drawings of muscular men. Before finding fame, he finds challenges from his sister and Finnish society due to…

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Młyn i krzyż (2011)

Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film

The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. It consists of a series of vignettes depicting everyday peasant life, interspersed with monologues from some of the principal characters, including Bruegel e…

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The Chameleon (2010)

Drama, drama film

A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story i…

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Remando al viento (1988)

Drama, biographical film, drama film, horror film, mystery film

In the summer of 1816, English poet Percy Shelley, his soon to be wife Mary Shelley (daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician…

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The President's Lady (1953)

Biographical picture, biographical film, historical film

In 1789, Rachel Donelson Robards meets Tennessee's attorney general, Andrew Jackson, for the first time when he seeks room and board at her mother's farm near Nashville. John Overton, Andrew's law partner and Rachel's cousin, had recommend…

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My Life So Far (1999)

Biographical picture, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film

The film tells the story of how the Pettigrew family, living in their family estate Kiloran House in Scotland, deal with changes brought by the end of World War I, told through the point of view of one of the Pettigrew children, Fraser. Th…

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Breaking the Code (1996)

Biographical picture, documentary film, drama film

The story focuses on the life of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped decode the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. He also was one of the key contributors to the developme…

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