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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.

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (Blu-ray) (2011)

7.6/10
Director: Gilles Penso
Starring: Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron, Joe Dante, John Landis, Ray Harryha...

The remarkable career of the movie industry's most admired and influential special-effects auteur, the legendary Ray Harryhausen, is the subject of th... Read more

Sunshine Superman (2014)

6.9/10

A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more s... Read more

Love It Was Not (2020)

7.6/10

The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch. Read more

Harry & Snowman (2015)

7.6/10

The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter. Read more

Ronaldo (2015)

6.3/10

A close look at the life of Cristiano Ronaldo. Read more

Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches (2016)

8.3/10
Starring: Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Tippi Hedren, Baz Luhrmann, Bryan Bro...

The late Australian actor Rod Taylor, whose most recent role is in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, was a versatile and popular leading man,... Read more

Thomas Edison: Father of Invention (1995)

Life in the modern world would be unthinkable without his inventions. More than any other individual, he paved the way for the future. Thomas Alva Edi... Read more

General Patton: A Genius for War (1995)

General George S. Patton was a walking, talking, fighting machine whose personality was bigger and noisier than one of his Sherman tanks. He was tough... Read more

The Showmen: Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill (1996)

The true story behind the fastest guns in the west! Crime wasn't the only way to turn profit from gunplay in the Old West, Buffalo Bill Cody and "Wild... Read more

Einstein Revealed (1996)

7.9/10
Director: Peter Jones
Starring: F Murray Abraham, Narrated by, Andrew Sachs

Narrated by F Murray Abraham, this dramatized documentary portrays Einstein (played by Andrew Sachs) as a man of formidable genius, passionate emotion... Read more