Origin: United States
Genre: Biography
322 content found
Escape at Dannemora 2018

A female prison employee in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano

7.9 IMDB Rating 28,761 Views
Confirmation 2016

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,446 Views
Chasing Mavericks 2012

When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,404 Views
Son Of The South 2020

The true story of one young white Southerner in the Summer of 1961, caught in a place and time where he had to choose which side he was on.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Lucas Till, Jim Klock, Michael Sirow

6.2 IMDB Rating 1,713 Views
Takedown 2000

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,571 Views
Kill the Messenger 2014

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims

6.9 IMDB Rating 5,262 Views
The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996

The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,352 Views
The Philadelphia Experiment 1984

A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,993 Views
I Can Only Imagine 2018

The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.

Category: Biography, Drama, Family

Stars: John Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Dennis Quaid

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,791 Views
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind 2020

Exploring Natalie Wood's life and career through the unique perspective of her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and others who knew her best.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Natalie Wood, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Julie Salamon

7.1 IMDB Rating 2,962 Views
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019

In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,665 Views
Rosewater 2014

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,150 Views
John Adams 2008

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett

8.4 IMDB Rating 8,486 Views
The Glass Castle 2017

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,923 Views
Georgetown 2019

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,497 Views
Cleveland Abduction 2015

A single mother, who becomes the first victim of kidnapper Ariel Castro, finds herself trapped in his home for 11 years, where she eventually becomes a friend and sister to two other women who are taken captive by Castro.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Taryn Manning, Raymond Cruz, Katie Sarife

6.6 IMDB Rating 11,045 Views
The Hoax 2006

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, David Aaron Baker

6.7 IMDB Rating 2,771 Views
Genius 2017–

The life stories of history's greatest minds, from their days as young adults to their final years: their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws, and genius.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Samantha Colley, Seth Gabel, Antonio Banderas

8.2 IMDB Rating 50,082 Views
The Sessions 2012

A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,743 Views
Black Mafia Family 2021–

Two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Tyshon Freeman, Da'Vinchi, Demetrius 'Lil Meech' Flenory

7.5 IMDB Rating 36,404 Views