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Biography

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.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

8.1/10
Director: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

This powerful, Oscar-winning documentary brings the AIDS epidemic into sharp personal focus by telling the stories of five people memorialized on the... Read more

Con Man (2003)

6.8/10
Director: Jess Moss

He didn't dare the law to "catch me if you can" but they caught him nevertheless, uncovering James Arthur Hogue's life as a career impostor. Adopting... Read more

Confucius - Words of Wisdom (1996)

In an age of intrigue and vice, he was a voice of morality and virtue. 2500 years after his death, he is revered as one of the great teachers in histo... Read more

Crossing Rachmaninoff (2015)

8.4/10
Director: Rebecca Tansley
Starring: Flavio Villani

An uplifting musical journey that provides an intimate insight into the process of becoming a classical musician. Crossing Rachmaninoff follows aspiri... Read more

Crossing the Line (2006)

7.5/10
Director: Daniel Gordon

Witness the stories of four US army defectors who abandoned their homeland to seek out a new life in communist North Korea in this fascinating documen... Read more

Crumb (1995)

8/10
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb

Robert Crumb, the multi-talented underground comic book artist, is profiled in this unique, in-depth documentary portrait. Emerging from a dysfunction... Read more

Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

7.2/10
Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Starring: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara

"Cutie and the Boxer" is a candid New York love story about life and art that explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned "boxing" painter Ushio... Read more

Daft Punk Unchained (2015)

7.3/10
Director: Herve Martin-Delpierre
Starring: Thomas Bangalter, Todd Edwards

The first ever documentary film on the most secretive duo in the world. The epic story of two uncompromising artists. With the participation of their... Read more

Dancer (2016)

7.9/10
Director: Steven Cantor
Starring: Sergei Polunin

The very first thing you notice about the young Ukrainian ballet superstar Sergei Polunin is his deep set of piercing eyes which somehow seem to unner... Read more

Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story (2005)

8.4/10
Director: Julian Shaw
Starring: Pieter-Dirk Uys, Nelson Mandela

Controversial South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, who gained infamy in the 1980s for his cross-dressing parodies of the apartheid regime... Read more