Biography Movies

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war...

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent...

The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking...

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott...

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from...

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’...

A young man fights to overcome violence plaguing his village and succeed as a professional kabaddi player.

Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and...

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic...

John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces...

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts...

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and...

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling.

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific...

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...