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.
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
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
The tragic love story of Helena Citron, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch. Read more
The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter. Read more
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
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 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 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
Narrated by F Murray Abraham, this dramatized documentary portrays Einstein (played by Andrew Sachs) as a man of formidable genius, passionate emotion... Read more