Genre: Biography
1352 content found
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women 2017

detail the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth, a psychologist and inventor in her own right, and Olive Byrne, a former student who became an academic. This relationship was key to the creation of Wonder Woman, as Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals were ingrained in the character from her creation. Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive remained a couple and raised their and Marston's children together. The film is said to focus on how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding Wonder Woman's creation.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Luke Evans,Rebecca Hall,Bella Heathcote,Connie Britton

7.2 IMDB Rating 8,550 Views
Freedom Writers 2007

It's 1994 in Long Beach, California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program, Erin is unprepared for the nature of her classroom, whose students live by generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on. The only person the students hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death that she fully begins to understand what she's up against. And it isn't until she provides an assignment of writing a daily journal - which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless they so choose - that the students begin to open up to her. As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources provided to teach properly (which often results in her needing to pay for them herself through working second and third jobs), she seems to face greater resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as Margaret Campbell, her section head, who lives by regulations and sees such resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own idealistic way in life.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Hilary Swank,Patrick Dempsey,Scott Glenn,Imelda Staunton

7.5 IMDB Rating 13,104 Views
The Disaster Artist 2017

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Dave Franco,James Franco,Seth Rogen,Ari Graynor

8.2 IMDB Rating 8,283 Views
Agora 2009

Alexandria, 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the institutions of learning may crumble along with the governance of slavery. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and "the brotherhood of all". Although her former slave doesn't see it that way.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Rachel Weisz,Max Minghella,Oscar Isaac,Ashraf Barhom

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,960 Views
Kill the Irishman 2011

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,355 Views
The Great Debaters 2007

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,892 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,138 Views
Glory Road 2006

In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Josh Lucas,Derek Luke,Austin Nichols,Jon Voight

7.2 IMDB Rating 6,386 Views
The Jesus Film Project – The Story of Jesus – According to the Gospel of Luke 1979

Filmed on location in Israel at authentic biblical sites, this inspirational drama and commercial success retells the life of Christ.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Alexander Scourby

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,987 Views
Medici 2016–2019

A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen

7.9 IMDB Rating 24,931 Views
Cornelis 2010

Cornelis is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden's greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist's intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Hans Erik Dyvik Husby,Malin Crépin,Helena Af Sandeberg,David Dencik

6.3 IMDB Rating 6,027 Views
Charlie Wilson’s War 2007

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,507 Views
Nowhere Boy 2009

The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,744 Views
Elvira Madigan 1967

Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships. Moreover, while on the run, Sixten meets a friend who tries to convince him to come back to his country and family.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Pia Degermark,Thommy Berggren,Lennart Malmer,Cleo Jensen

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,953 Views
The Post 2017

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks,Sarah Paulson,Bob Odenkirk

7.5 IMDB Rating 7,677 Views
Schumacher 2021

Documentary on the life of seven time Formula 1 world champion driver Michael Schumacher.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Sebastian Vettel

1,732 Views
La Bamba 1987

This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.

Category: Biography, Drama, Music

Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips,Esai Morales,Rosanna DeSoto,Elizabeth Peña

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,073 Views
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes 2022

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Category: Biography, Crime, Documentary

Stars: Jeffrey Dahmer

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,020 Views
Underbelly: Vanishing Act 2022

The story of a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients. This is the story of Melissa Caddick.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Kate Atkinson, Maya Stange, Jerome Velinsky

6.1 IMDB Rating 2,076 Views
Wu-Tang: An American Saga 2019–

The show tracks the Wu Tang Clan's formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Siddiq Saunderson

8.3 IMDB Rating 46,335 Views