Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore biographical films about the lives of notable people.
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biographical film, drama film
The movie begins with the captions: "The life of Cecil Rhodes is a drama of the man who set out single-handed to unite a continent. In the pursuit of this task, he spared neither himself nor others. By some he was hailed as an inspired lea…
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biographical film, documentary film
biographical film, documentary film
Directed by British journalist Ruaridh Arrow, the film follows the use of Gene Sharp's work across revolutionary groups throughout the world. There is particular focus on Sharp's key text From Dictatorship to Democracy which has been trans…
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science fiction film
The film opens by following a moody goth named Reese, who befriends three other outcasts like him: Zack, a rich nerd; Ashley, Zack's sister; and Phoebe, a flower child. They go to a forest and find a glowing rock. They gain powers from jus…
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Drama, biographical film
A young boy dreams of playing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Honus Wagner. Eventually the boy assists Wagner in his 1909 World Series duel with fellow hall-of-famer Ty Cobb.
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action film, adventure film, biographical film, fantasy film
biographical film, drama film
Raised in the Northeastern Pennsylvania mining town of Nanticoke, Pete Gray loses his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his immigrant parents, Antoinette and Peter Wyshner Sr., and the constant coaching of…
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drama film
Chicago street cleaner and Swedish immigrant Paul Kroll is ambitious and unscrupulous. When a fellow employee is fired as result of Kroll's scheme, Kroll convinces his foreman to allow him to remain on the payroll so that they can split hi…
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biographical film
Biographical documentary, Musical
The documentary exhibits how a music underdog rises to the top of the industry by staying true to their beliefs, through team collaboration, and the healing power of music. The documentary centers mental health, perseverance, vulnerability…
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biographical film, drama film
Historie, biographical film, drama film
When Father Dick Ball in San Diego, California, recalls his childhood friend, John Joseph Montgomery, he recounts the story of the first American to ever fly a glider in 1883. As early as 1879, John told his girlfriend Regina Cleary about …
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Documentation, biographical film, documentary film, drama film
biographical film, musical film
Biographical documentary, documentary film
Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, drama film
Yevgeny Petrov, the Soviet Union writer and journalist has an unusual hobby: since the age of six, he writes fake letters to other countries. Every time, he chooses different fake names for his addresses. The envelopes come back, but beaut…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Biographical documentary, documentary film
blaxploitation film, documentary film
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like F…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film
Documentation, Political Documentary, Travel documentary, biographical film, documentary film
Biographical documentary, documentary film
biographical film
In 1907, when Amelia Earhart is nine years old, growing up on a Kansas farm, she is an intelligent and precocious child. She builds a play aircraft with her sister "Pidge." Later, as America enters World War I in 1917, Amelia, now a colleg…
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Western, Western film, biographical film
Set in 1775, during the American War of Independence, the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky, is besieged by both hostile Shawnee Indian tribes and the British. Frontiersman Daniel Boone and his family must fight for survival when overt…
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