Biographical films
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- 100 men
- 12 years a slave
- 2 turntables and a microphone : the life and death of Jam Master Jay
- 200 cadillacs
- 8 1/2
- 90 South
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Life : the story of Lady Bird Johnson
- A ballerina's tale
- A beautiful mind
- A boatload of wild Irishmen
- A brief history of time
- A man for all seasons
- A man named Pearl
- A matador's mistress
- A mighty heart
- A murder in the park
- A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
- A poem is a naked person
- A river runs through it
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, revolutionary war double agent
- A taboo identity : the [r]evolution of Kay Taylor Parker
- A united kingdom
- Above and below
- Above and beyond : the incredible escape of Jewish-American B-17 pilot Burce Sundlun from Nazi-occupied Europe in WWII
- Above ground level : dubfire
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Adele and everything after
- Afternoon of a faun : Tanaquil Le Clercq
- Ai Weiwei : never sorry
- Ain't in it for my health
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great
- Ali
- Ali : a living legend
- Ali : the director's cut
- Ali in action : the man, the moves, the mouth
- Alice Neel
- All eyez on me
- All good things
- All that jazz
- All the money in the world
- All the way
- Amadeus
- Amazing grace
- Amazing journey : the story of the Who
- Amelia
- America's journey through slavery, The life of an enslaved person in America
- American : the Bill Hicks story
- American Jihadist
- American Sniper
- American experience : America's first lady, Dolley Madison
- American made
- American promise
- American radical : the trials of Norman Finkelstein
- Amy
- An apple for Harriet Tubman
- An audience with Charles Dickens
- Andy Paris : bubblegum king
- Anita : speaking truth to power
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank's holocaust
- Annie Leibovitz : life through a lens
- Anthropoid
- Apollo 13
- Architects of civil rights
- Audubon
- Awakenings
- Ayn Rand : in her own words
- BB King : the life of Riley
- Ballerina
- Barack Obama : the story of our 44th president
- Barrymore
- Bearden plays Bearden
- Beats, rhymes & life : the travels of A Tribe Called Quest
- Becoming Jane
- Becoming Warren Buffett
- Becoming more visible
- Behind the Candelabra
- Being Elmo : a puppeteer's journey
- Being Evel
- Beloved sisters
- Beneath Hill 60
- Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson : taking the stage as the first black-and-white jazz band in history
- Beuys
- Bhutto
- Big eyes
- Big in Bollywood
- Bill Nye : science guy
- Bird
- Birdman of Alcatraz : the story of a real and living man--
- Birth of the dragon
- Black like me
- Black mass
- Black wings
- Blackkklansman
- Blaise Pascal
- Bleed for this
- Blue caprice
- Bob Dylan : in his own words : interviews & contributions
- Bolero : In search of Cezanne
- Bombshell
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Born to be blue
- Bowie : the man who changed the world
- Boys don't cry
- Brakhage
- Brave girl : Clara and the shirtwaist makers' strike of 1909
- Breathe
- Bridge of spies
- Bright Lights
- Bright star
- Bronx Obama
- Bruce Springsteen : between the lull and the storm
- Buck
- Buscando a Gastón : Finding Gaston
- By the people : the election of Barack Obama
- Cameraman : the life and work of Jack Cardiff
- Cantinflas
- Capote
- Carmen & Geoffrey : the extraordinary lives of dancers Carmen de Lavallade & Geoffrey Holder
- Cartesius
- Catch a fire
- Catching Salinger
- Cesar Chavez
- Champs
- Chantal Ackerman, de cá
- Chaplin
- Charged : the Eduardo Garcia story
- Chariots of Fire
- Charles Drew : revolutionized medical science
- Charlie Wilson's war
- Charlotte Forten's mission
- Chasing Trane : the John Coltrane documentary
- Che
- Che : el Argentino
- Che, el guerrillero
- Chuck Close
- Churchill
- Coal miner's daughter
- Coco avant Chanel : Coco before Chanel
- Colored frames
- Colosio, el asesinato
- Concrete love : the architecture of the Böhm family
- Confirmation
- Conor McGregor : notorious
- Constelaciones
- Crazysexycool : the TLC story
- Crumb
- Cruz Reynoso : sowing the seeds of justice
- Cry freedom
- Cutie and the boxer
- Dali's greatest secret
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Dance crazy in Hollywood : with Hermes Pan
- Dancer
- Dancing child
- Darkest hour
- David Bowie : in his own words
- David Bowie : the calm before the storm : under review 1969-1971
- David Hockney : a bigger picture
- David Lynch : the art life
- Dealt
- Denial
- Deux de la vague
- Diana
- Dietro gli occhiali bianchi
- Digna : hasta el último aliento
- Directed by John Ford
- Documented : a film by an undocumented American
- Dolly Parton's coat of many colors
- Dolores
- Don't blink, Robert Frank
- Don't look back
- Down there
- Dr. Daniel Hale Williams : first Black heart surgeon in America
- Dream boat
- Drew : the man behind the poster
- E.O. Wilson : of ants and men
- Eddie the Eagle
- Edie & Thea : a very long engagement
- Elie Wiesel goes home
- Elizabeth R
- Elizabeth, the golden age
- Ella Brennan : commanding the table
- Elton John : tantrums and tiaras
- Embrace of the serpent
- Emiliano Zapata : el amor a la tierra
- Emma Amos : action lines
- Enlighten up!
- Erin Brockovich
- Escapes
- Europa Europa
- Eva Hesse
- Eva Perón
- Everest
- Every child is born a poet : the life and work of Piri Thomas
- Everybody knows... Elizabeth Murray
- Exile nation : the plastic people
- Experimenter : the Stanley Milgram story
- Extraordinary measures
- Facing Ali
- Fair game
- Famous activists : Paul Robeson, Richard Wright
- Farmer/veteran
- Fear no fruit
- Fernando Bujones : a portrait of a dance legend
- Fidel : un filme
- Fidel Castro : an unauthorised biography
- Film stars don't die in Liverpool
- Finding Fela
- Finding Vivian Maier
- First ladies revealed
- First person singular : I.M. Pei
- Five minutes of heaven
- Flash of genius
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Fold crumple crush : the art of El Anatsui
- Foo Fighters : back and forth
- For us, the living : the Medgar Evers story
- Foxcatcher
- Frame by frame
- Frances
- Francesco
- Frank Serpico
- Free Angela and all political prisoners
- Free state of Jones
- Freedom flyers of Tuskegee
- Freeheld
- From poverty to purpose : the Ben Carson story
- Frontline, Long walk of Nelson Mandela
- Frost/Nixon
- Fruitvale Station
- Funny bones : Posada and his day of the dead calaveras
- Funny girl
- Gainsbourg : vie héroïque
- Game face
- Gauguin : maker of myth
- Genius within : the inner life of Glenn Gould
- George Washington Carver : his life and his work
- Get on Up
- Gilbert : a Gilbert Gottfried story
- Gleason
- Glen Campbell : I'll be me
- Glory road
- Gonzo : the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- Good night, and good luck
- Goodbye Christopher Robin
- Gordon Parks "visions" : the images, words and music of Gordon Parks
- Gospel according to Al Green
- Goya : awakened in a dream
- Goya, or, the hard way to enlightenment
- Grace of Monaco
- Gray matters
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Grey Gardens
- Gus : an American icon
- Guyana tragedy : the story of Jim Jones
- Handel's last chance
- Hands of stone
- Harlem Street singer : the Reverend Gary Davis story
- Harmonies from Heaven
- Harold and Lillian : a Hollywood love story
- Harper Lee, from Mockingbird to Watchman
- Harry & snowman
- Have a little faith
- Hawaizaada
- Hawking
- Henson's place : the man behind the muppets
- Hey, Boo : Harper Lee & To kill a mockingbird
- Hickok
- Hidden figures
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : some girls are born to lead
- Historical icons, Famous African Americans
- Hit so hard : the life & near death story of Patty Schemel
- Hitler on trial : the true story
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1930s, Dancing away the Great Depression
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1940s, Stars, stripes and singing
- Hollywood singing and dancing, The 1950s, The golden era of the musical
- Hollywoodland
- Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry : the life and times of American tattoo master Norman K. Collins
- Howard Zinn : you can't be neutral on a moving train
- Howl
- Hunger
- Huxley on Huxley
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- Hysteria
- I am Big Bird : the Caroll Spinney story
- I am Bolt
- I am Heath Ledger
- I am Michael
- I am Sam Kinison
- I am another you
- I am not your Negro
- I have never forgotten you : the life and legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
- I know a woman like that
- I saw the light
- I want to live!
- I will : a tribute to African American woman
- I'm not ashamed
- I'm not there
- I, Tonya
- Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein : My name was Sabina Spielrein
- Ida B. Wells : a passion for justice
- Ida B. Wells : crusader for human rights
- If a tree falls : a story of the Earth Liberation Front
- In a dream
- In my father's house
- In the heart of the sea
- In the realms of the unreal
- Ingrid Bergman : in her own words
- Instrument
- Into the wild
- Invictus
- Iris
- Iris
- Iris
- Irving Stone's The agony and the ecstasy
- It is no dream : the life of Theodor Herzl
- It's about you
- It's always about the story : conversations with Alan Ladd Junior
- It's not yet dark
- J. Edgar
- J.C. Chavez : el último héroe mexicano
- JFK : the private President
- Jackie
- Jacob Lawrence : the glory of expression
- Jamel Shabazz : street photographer
- James Dean : the first American teenager
- Jane
- Jeremiah Tower : the last magnificent
- Jersey boys
- Jimi Hendrix Experience : Electric Church : Atlanta Pop Festival, July 4, 1970
- Jimmy's hall
- Joan Miró : the ladder of escape
- Joan Rivers : a piece of work
- Jobs
- Joe Frazier : when the smoke clears
- John Muir in the new world
- John Rabe
- Johnnie Cochran
- Julia
- Julian Schnabel : a private portrait
- Julie & Julia
- Justin Bieber : never say never
- Keep quiet
- Keith Richards : in his own words
- Kill the Irishman
- King Georges
- L'amour fou
- L'ennemi public no 1
- LBJ
- La Bamba
- La glace et le ciel : Antarctica: ice and sky
- Lady sings the blues
- Larry Kramer : in love & anger
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Le métis de Dieu : the Jewish cardinal
- Le scaphandre et le papillon
- Legend
- LennoNYC
- Leonard Cohen : under review, 1978-2006
- Leonardo da Vinci : the universal genius
- Libertador : The liberator
- Life
- Life after life
- Life is strange
- Life itself
- Limelight
- Lincoln
- Little ashes
- Llévate mis amores : All of me
- Long distance revolutionary : a journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Louie Bluie
- Love & mercy
- Loving
- Loving Vincent
- Low down
- Lucky
- Lumumba
- M.S. Dhoni : the untold story
- Machine gun preacher
- Machine gun preacher
- Magician : the astonishing life and work of Orson Welles
- Malcolm X
- Malcolm X
- Man in red bandana
- Man on wire
- Mandela, long walk to freedom
- Manjhi : the mountain man
- Mar adentro : The sea inside
- March on! : the day my brother Martin changed the world : -- and more stories about African American history
- Marcus Garvey : a giant of Black politics
- Marie Antoinette
- Marie Antoinette
- Marlene
- Marley
- Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mary Cassatt
- Mary McLeod Bethune : champion for education
- Mary White
- Matt Shepard is a friend of mine
- Maudie
- Maurizio Cattelan : be right back
- Me Jane & more stories about girl power
- Meeting David Wilson
- Megan Leavey
- Men with beards
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
- Michael Collins
- Michael Jackson : searching for Neverland
- Miles ahead
- Milk
- Million Dollar Arm
- Miracle man : the story of Jesus
- Miracles from Heaven
- Misdirection : the real magic
- Miss Hill : making dance matter
- Miss Potter
- Miss Sharon Jones!
- Molière
- Molly's game
- Momentos con Fidel
- Mommie dearest
- Moms Mabley
- Monet : shadow & light
- Moneyball
- Monkey business : the adventures of Curious George's creators
- Moulin Rouge
- Mr. Devious, The First : My Life
- Mr. Dynamite : the rise of James Brown
- Mr. Turner
- Muhammad Ali : fighting spirit : the unauthorized story
- Muhammad Ali : in his own words
- Mully
- My Left Foot : the Story of Christy Brown
- My all American
- My friend Dahmer
- My name is Bill W.
- My own man
- My transgender life
- Nasser's republic : the making of modern Egypt
- Na̋o pare na pista : a melhor história de Paulo Coelho = Paulo Coelho's best story
- Neerja
- Nelson Mandela : ...and more inspiring stories
- Neruda
- No crossover : the trial of Allen Iverson
- No subtitles necessary : Laszlo + Vilmos
- Nothing left unsaid : Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper
- Notorious
- Nowhere boy
- Of men and war
- One Direction : this is us
- One cut, one life
- One nation under Trump
- Only the brave
- Operation filmmaker : a film
- Otto Frank, father of Anne
- Our last tango
- Out of Africa
- Papirosen
- Patton
- Paul Robeson : 20th century Renaissance man, entertainer and activist
- Paul Robeson : songs of freedom
- Paul, apostle of Christ
- Pawn sacrifice
- Pearl S. Buck : a life, a legacy
- Persepolis
- Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
- Phil Ochs : there but for fortune
- Phil Spector
- Piñero
- Portraits of America
- Princes of the palace : the House of Windsor's royal princes
- Princess Kaʻiulani
- Prodigal sons
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
- Public Enemy : welcome to the Terrordome : 20 years of rap, rock, and revolution
- Public enemies
- Purple rain
- Queen of Katwe
- RBG
- Race
- Raging Bull
- Ray
- Rebel in the rye
- Red army
- Redemption : for robbing the dead
- Reds
- Rem Koolhaas : a kind of architect
- Requiem for the American dream
- Restless creature : Wendy Whelan
- Richard Mayhew : spiritual landscapes
- Riding my way back
- Risen : the rise of a true British champion
- Robin Williams remembered
- Romare Bearden
- Romare Bearden : visual jazz
- Romare Bearden : visual jazz ; Faith Ringgold : the last story quilt
- Ronald Reagan : an American journey
- Ronaldo
- Rosa
- Rosewater
- Rudy
- Run boy run
- Rush
- Saint Laurent
- Salvador Allende
- Sam Klemke's time machine
- Satchmo : Louis Armstrong
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Schindler's list
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Se busca Neruda
- Seabiscuit
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Searching for Victor 'Young' Perez : the boxer of Auschwitz
- Secundaria
- Senna
- Sergeant York
- Serpico
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- Shattered Glass
- Shirley Chisholm : first African American congresswoman
- Silver screen icons, [Disc 1], Cary Grant
- Sinatra : all or nothing at all
- Sing your song
- Sit down and fight : Walter Reuther and the rise of the auto workers union
- Slingshot
- Smash his camera
- Snowden
- Soul surfer
- Sound of redemption : the Frank Morgan story
- Southside with you
- Spartacus
- Spotlight
- Stand and deliver
- Stand and deliver
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs : the man in the machine
- Steve McQueen : American icon
- Straight outta Compton
- Suffragette
- Sully
- Tab Hunter confidential
- Take every wave : the life of Laird Hamilton
- Tales from the script
- Talihina sky :, the story of Kings of Leon
- Talk to me
- Tatsumi
- Te Ata
- Tell them Willie Boy is here
- Tesla : born in light
- Testament of youth
- The 15:17 to Paris
- The 33
- The 33
- The Aviator
- The B-side : Elsa Dorfman's portrait photography
- The Blind Side
- The Danish girl
- The Eleanor Roosevelt story
- The Express
- The German doctor
- The Jackie Robinson story
- The Jackie Robinson story
- The Jackie Robinson story
- The Jackie Robinson story
- The Joe Louis story
- The Josephine Baker story
- The King and I
- The Life of Emile Zola
- The Loving story
- The Marva Collins story
- The Miles Davis story
- The Post
- The Queen
- The Red Baron
- The Runaways
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Woodmans
- The actress
- The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
- The aviator
- The barefoot artist
- The birth of a nation
- The butler
- The cartoonist : Jeff Smith, Bone and the changing face of cartoons
- The case for Christ
- The circle : der Kreis
- The color of freedom
- The conjuring
- The dance goodbye
- The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
- The diplomat
- The disaster artist : based on a true story
- The duchess
- The edge of love
- The elephant man
- The fear of 13
- The fifth estate
- The first grader
- The founder
- The glass castle
- The gospel of Luke
- The great British train robbery : a tale of two thieves
- The great Ziegfeld
- The great debaters
- The greatest ears in town : the Arif Mardin story
- The greatest game ever played
- The greatest showman
- The happy film
- The horse boy
- The hurricane
- The imitation game
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- The impressionists and the man who made them
- The infiltrator
- The inventor's secret : what Thomas Edison told Henry Ford
- The iron lady
- The king's speech
- The last emperor
- The last king of Scotland
- The last station
- The letters
- The lost city of Z
- The madness of King George
- The man nobody knew : in search of my father, CIA spymaster William Colby
- The man who invented Christmas
- The man who walked between the towers
- The miracle season
- The miracle worker
- The monuments men
- The mystery of Charles Dickens
- The night James Brown saved Boston
- The pearl