This documentary sub-heading is one of the most popular forms of non-fiction film. The biography details the lives - usually the achievements and faults of - noted or notorious public figures. Also included, alongside other movie types, are profiles of everyday people and their human interest stories.
Living and dying with a fast, hard, and uncompromising style was the only choice for writer/journalist Hunter S. Thompson. In this insightful document... Read more
Freda Kelly was just a shy Liverpudlian teenager when she was asked to work for a local band hoping to make it big. Though she had no concept of how f... Read more
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than G... Read more
Electrifying concert performances and intimate, personal footage showcase the life and talent of singer and actress Grace Jones. Read more
Thirty years after his untimely death, BBC Four presents the first-ever documentary film about the musical legend, Gram Parsons. Through his work with... Read more
Robert Falcon Scott's doomed attempt to be first to the South Pole became a race against his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen. When Scott and his exhaus... Read more
Fascinating historical biography series about six of the greatest military commanders Great Britain has ever produced. The internationally known chara... Read more
A unique film portrait of Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, a mother/daughter duo of former socialites, relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who lived a r... Read more
Timothy Treadwell was a self-styled crusader for the Grizzly Bears of Alaska. After spending 13 summers living with and recording the animals he love... Read more
David Gulpilil was the first Aboriginal Australian to appear as an actor in a film, Nicholas Roeg's 'Walkabout' in 1971, and since then he has become... Read more