Genre: Biography
Year: 2021
85 content found
The Last Execution 2021

Life of Werner Teske, the last man to be executed in former East Germany in 1981 before the death penalty was finally abolished in 1987.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Lars Eidinger, Devid Striesow, Luise Heyer

6.7 IMDB Rating 141 Views
Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime 2021

The crime shocked Brazil: Elize Matsunaga shot and dismembered her rich husband. Featuring her first interview, this docuseries dives deep into the case.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary, Mystery

Stars: Stephanie Sherry, Thaís Nunes, Luciano Santoro

6.0 IMDB Rating 2,986 Views
Skandalen på Huseby 2021

Florence Stephens inherited one of Sweden's richest estates. Her home was visited by royalty and nobility. As heir to her large estate, she appoints, herself unmarried and childless, the young extravagant Prince Carl Bernadotte trustee. A well-known family secret suggests that Florence Stephens might have blood ties to the Royal family.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Florence Stephens, Carl Bernadotte, Lena Ebervall

6.1 IMDB Rating 186 Views
Benny och Kulturhuset 2021

A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Benny Fredriksson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Per Ahrbom

8.0 IMDB Rating 84 Views
Alice Guy, 1st Female Filmmaker 2021

In the early days of film-biz Alice joined the company of pioneer Gaumont, rose in the ranks and directed more than 400 films. But the company eventually erased her from her credits, she was forgotten, even experts have to redisco...

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Gustave Eiffel, Léon Gaumont, Alice Guy

69 Views
Exposing Muybridge 2021

Exposing Muybridge tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Marta Braun, Philip Brookman

6.8 IMDB Rating 98 Views
Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind 2021

Joyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Joyce Carol Oates, Laura Dern

6.4 IMDB Rating 100 Views
Jim Morrison, derniers jours à Paris 2021

When Jim Morrison mourned the world - but the cause of death remains shrouded in obscurity. Was it a heart attack? An overdose? A CIA operation? Through exclusive interviews, the truth about the artist's mysterious death is now revealed.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Jim Morrison

6.7 IMDB Rating 173 Views
The Scars of Ali Boulala 2021

Ali Boulala, a skateboarding legend of the 1990s. The poignant story of a skateboarding genius's staggering career and the tragic turn it took.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Ali Boulala, Amanda Boulala, Omar Boulala

7.2 IMDB Rating 163 Views
The Fourth Window 2021

Behind the international success story of Amos Oz, a symbol of the Israeli conscience and a writer translated into 45 languages, lurked a double tragedy. When he was 12-years-old his mother committed suicide, and a few years before his death his daughter accused him of being physically and mentally violent, ending all communication with him.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Amos Oz

6.7 IMDB Rating 97 Views
Världens vackraste pojke 2021

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Kristina Lindström, Luchino Visconti, Mario Tursi

6.8 IMDB Rating 156 Views
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner 2021

After a failed attempt in 1972, Caitlyn Jenner made it her mission to win decathlon gold in Montreal in 1976.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Caitlyn Jenner, Esther Jenner, Chrystie Scott

6.5 IMDB Rating 192 Views
Manhunt 2019–2021

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton tracks down a serial killer.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Martin Clunes, Claudie Blakley, Matthew Gravelle

7.6 IMDB Rating 10,972 Views
Black Mafia Family 2021–

Two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Tyshon Freeman, Da'Vinchi, Demetrius 'Lil Meech' Flenory

7.5 IMDB Rating 36,320 Views
Becoming Cousteau 2021

A look at the life, passions, achievements and tragedies surrounding the famous explorer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau, featuring an archive of his newly restored footage.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Documentary

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Carol Burnett, Louis Malle

7.1 IMDB Rating 390 Views
Adrienne 2021

As the muse of Hal Hartley's indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitress, Adrienne Shelly was a shining star in the indie film firmament.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Sara Bareilles, Robert John Burke, Nathan Fillion

7.4 IMDB Rating 376 Views
Life of Crime 1984-2020 2021

A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Deliris, Freddy, Robert

8.4 IMDB Rating 544 Views
Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord 2021

Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)."

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Maximilian Schmidt

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,951 Views
Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell 2021–

The powerful, connected, and mysterious Ghislaine Maxwell, takes a sordid downturn when she meets Jeffrey Epstein, the serial sex offender.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Christopher Mason, Victoria Hervey, Maria Farmer

6.7 IMDB Rating 2,900 Views
Leonardo 2021–

The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Aidan Turner, Matilda De Angelis, Freddie Highmore

7.2 IMDB Rating 11,970 Views