BIOGRAPHY Movies and Tvshows - Page 3

Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley

Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962 Eight years later, he died but friends questioned the cause of his death

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai 1760 1849, a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin

For many generations people in the Omo Valley tribal southwest Ethiopia believed some children are cursed and that these cursed children bring disease, drought and death to the tribe The curse is called mingi and mingi childre

A satirical comedy about a common man and the struggle he goes through to prove his existence after being falsely being declared dead on government records

Heavily fictionalised autobiography of 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond

A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams

Follows the story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lees relationship, going back to their whirlwind romance that started with them marrying after only knowing each other for 96 hours in 1995

At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra Vivien Leigh meets a middle aged Julius Caesar Claude Rains, who teaches her how to rule Egypt

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II

A fictionalized account of Nacho Vidals rise to international adult film stardom in the 1990s

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him

As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co founder who was later squeezed out of the business

A biography of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia, who is the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation

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During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miners son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his fathers wishes

The story of Rubin Hurricane Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S Patton

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

A 17 year old dancer joins a thinspiration website and devotes herself to the almost religious glorification of thin, until she becomes completely possessed by the dark world of anorexia

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid 1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over a local school, Master Ip is forced to take a stand

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The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer

A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship

Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation

A widow accepts a job as a live in governess to the King of Siams children

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work

Julia Childs story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powells 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Childs first book

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth century Russian iconographer St Andrei Rublev

Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage

A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school

American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966