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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.

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)

8.4/10
Director: Jim Brown
Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger was the architect of the folk revival, writing some of its best known songs including "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "Turn, Turn, Turn... Read more

My Winnipeg (2007)

7.7/10
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Ann Savage, Louis Negin, Amy Stewart, Darcy Fehr

Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pays tribute to his beloved hometown with this goodbye letter and self-described 'docu-fantasia' that is equal... Read more

Salinger (2013)

6.7/10
Director: Shane Salerno

For more than fifty years, the ever elusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye" has been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine a... Read more

Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans (2015)

9.1/10
Director: John McKenna, Gabriel Clark
Starring: Steve McQueen

By the end of the 60s Steve McQueen was amongst Hollywoods highest paid and most powerful stars  and the coolest dude behind the wheel of any vehicl... Read more

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (2008)

Director: Murray Grigor

A sumptuous and comprehensive survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and career, from his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan in Chicago to his final days... Read more

Trumbo (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Peter Askin
Starring: Nathan Lane, Paul Giamatti, Brian Dennehy, Donald Sutherland, Liam Neeson, Micha...

Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo ('Roman Holiday', 'Spartacus') was the most well-known member of the Hollywood 10 who famously defied M... Read more

Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)

6.6/10
Director: Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolzeal
Starring: Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown

Four years after her death, filmmaker Nick Broomfield goes in search of the forces that made and then destroyed the singer who has been described as h... Read more

Hone Tuwhare: No Other Lips (1996)

Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Hone Tuwhare

Early in 1995, Hone Tuwhare one of the country's best-known, best-loved and most colourful literary figures allowed a film crew to observe him at home... Read more

Stepping Razor: Red X (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Nicholas Campbell
Starring: Peter Tosh, Lloyd Allen, Edward Allen, Andrea Davis

An absorbing exploration into the life of the late Peter Tosh, Reggae artist, Jamaican folk hero, prophet and radical political activist through archi... Read more

The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill (2002)

6.9/10
Director: Dominic Brigstocke
Starring: Kathy Burke, Harry Enfield, Eddie Izzard, Spike Milligan, Michael Palin, Eric Sy...

Aired just six month's after the last goon passed away, this funny and touching tirbute reveals Spike to be the ultimate tortured genius, treading a t... Read more