Genre: Biography
1344 content found
Invictus 2009

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Morgan Freeman,Matt Damon,Tony Kgoroge,Patrick Mofokeng

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,698 Views
Walk the Line 2005

While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter. Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix,Reese Witherspoon,Ginnifer Goodwin,Robert Patrick

7.9 IMDB Rating 10,775 Views
The Glorias 2020

The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem's itinerant childhood's influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights worldwide.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Janelle Monáe, Bette Midler

5.4 IMDB Rating 3,002 Views
Mank 2020

Follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941).

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried

3,368 Views
Serpico 1973

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire

7.7 IMDB Rating 4,948 Views
Hamilton 2020

The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson

8.6 IMDB Rating 6,382 Views
Target Number One 2020

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Josh Hartnett, Stephen McHattie, Jim Gaffigan, J.C. MacKenzie

7,4 IMDB Rating 4,681 Views
Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You 2020

Behind-the-scenes look at Springsteen's creative process with full performances from The E Street Band, in-studio footage, and never-before-seen archival material.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Roy Bittan, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa

Thom Zimny IMDB Rating 2,813 Views
Bad Boy Billionaires: India 2020–

This investigative docuseries explores the greed, fraud and corruption that built up - and ultimately brought down - India's most infamous tycoons.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

5,193 Views
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 2020

One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: David Attenborough

2,950 Views
Becoming 2020–

Becoming chronicles the origin stories of entertainers and athletes in their own words. Each subject takes a trip down memory lane for an intimate look at the struggles and successes that led them to where they are today.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Colbie Caillat, Nick Cannon, Anthony Davis, Rob Gronkowski

8,029 Views
The Young Victoria 2009

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,984 Views
A Love Song for Latasha 2019

The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Short

Stars: Brittany Hudson

2,243 Views
Men of Honor 2000

The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence and ultimately triumph.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis

7.2 IMDB Rating 7,780 Views
Moneyball 2011

Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright

7.6 IMDB Rating 10,412 Views
Kalashnikov 2020

Wounded as tank driver in 1941 during WWII, Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts looking for improvements and in 1947 ends up with AK-47 assault rifle.

Category: Biography

Stars: Yuriy Borisov, Olga Lerman, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov

6.4 IMDB Rating 4,101 Views
Howard 2018

The story of songwriter Howard Ashman who penned the lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS at the height of the AIDS crisis in 1991.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Music

Stars: Howard Ashman, Sarah Gillespie, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bill Lauch

8.4 IMDB Rating 2,408 Views
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens 2020

John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search he makes a different connection here on Earth.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Short

Stars: John Shepherd

6,7 IMDB Rating 2,636 Views
The Sound of Music 1965

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. Austria is about to come under the control of Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family, Kids

Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn

8.0 IMDB Rating 7,797 Views
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl 2020

Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi, Viineet Kumar

3,064 Views