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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.

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)

8/10
Director: D A Pennebaker
Starring: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price

One of the best portraits of an artist ever put on film, 'Don't Look Back' is about Bob Dylan and the Sixties. Director Pennebaker, known for 'Montere... Read more

Ladies And Gentlemen, Mr Leonard Cohen (1965)

7.4/10
Director: Don Owen, Donald Brittain
Starring: Leonard Cohen

This jazzy black and white film portrait catches the imaginative energies, lyrical and comical, of a young Leonard Cohen, the quicksilver poet, noveli... Read more

7 Up and 7 + 7 ( 14 Up ) (1963)

8/10
Director: Michael Apted

Dubbed 'the definitive documentary' produced and directed by Michael Apted. Beginning in 1963 a camera has followed a group of children from the age o... Read more

Northern Safari (1957)

8.4/10
Director: Keith F Adams
Starring: Keith F Adams, Audrey Adams, Margaret Adams

Decades before Steve Irwin's Croc Hunter, the Bush Tucker Man and Crocodile Dundee, Keith Adams with his wife and sister, lived a searing adventure in... Read more

Seven Years in Tibet (1956)

6.5/10
Director: Hans Nieter
Starring: Heinrich Harrer

The original drama documentary that inspired the Brad Pitt movie of the same name - tells the story of Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, who... Read more

The Flowers Of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) (1950)

7.5/10
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Aldo Fabrizi

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro. Read more

Kirk Douglas: Lust for Life / The Bad and the Beautiful / Young Man with a Horn / Before I Forget (1950)

7.1/10
Director: Jeff Kanew, Michael Curtiz, Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Dick Powell, Doris Day, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner...

Kirk Douglas Box Set. 'Young Man with a Horn' (1950) - Trumpeteer Douglas' talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs, but his search fo... Read more

Louisiana Story (1948)

6.9/10
Director: Robert Flaherty

Produced by Standard Oil with a 'no-strings-attached' policy, Robert Flaherty's final film focuses on the story of a young Cajun boy who watches his B... Read more

Man Of Aran (1934)

7.5/10
Director: Robert Flaherty

Flaherty's staggering award winning documentary "Man Of Aran" records the lives of the Aran islanders who reside just off Ireland's west coast in the... Read more

90 Degrees South (1933)

8.6/10
Director: Herbert Ponting
Starring: Captain Robert Falcon Scott

A remarkable film that uses footage shot in 1913 of Captain Robert Scott's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole, the trek in which the British explorer... Read more