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