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Genres: Documentary, Biography

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Director: John Bradshaw

Duration: 104 min

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Actors: Henry Ian Cusick, Frances O'Connor, Nigel Bennett

Charles Darwin is taken aback when he receives a manuscript from a colleague Alfred Wallace which contains many of the same conclusions as he on evolution and the development of various species. Darwins theory was developed over a great many years and in flashbacks the manner in which it developed is shown. He had many supporters and likely more critics. He knew that his ideas were radical...

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Director: Lara Acaster, Alex Williamson

Duration: 54 min

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Actors: Richard Anthony, Simon Boxall, Dan Cox

Dec. 26 2004...

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Actors: Bashar Altabba, Marcus Brandt, Fu Xiang Chen

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Genres: Documentary, Biography

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Director: Simon Nasht, Annamaria Talas

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Actors: Jay O. Sanders

NOVA investigates the furious scientific debate raging over what Hobbit bones...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe

Director Oliver Stones exploration of former president Richard Nixons strict Quaker upbringing his nascent political strivings in law school and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and...

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Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia

Director: Matej Minac

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Ben Abeles, Jirina Bohdalová, The Dalai Lama

Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...

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Genres: Documentary, Adventure, Biography, Family

Country: Switzerland, Netherlands, Malaysia, Italy, United States, Germany, Finland, Venezuela, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Russia

Director: Jennifer Fox

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

For twenty years filmmaker Jennifer Fox has been following the high Tibetan master Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and his Italian born son Yeshi with her camera. The result is the astounding feature length documentary MY REINCARNATION which tells the rare inside story of one of the last reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet and his sons stubborn reluctance to follow in his fathers...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: Japan

Director: Izuru Narushima

Duration: 140 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya

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Genres: Biography, Comedy, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Andrew Bergman

Duration: 95 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann the famed writer of The Valley Of The Dolls and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer....

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Genres: Action, Biography, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Director: Herman Yau

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Gillian Chung, Jordan Chan

In postwar Hong Kong legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now to defend life and honor he has no choice but to fight one last time...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough

Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...

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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Douglas McGrath

Duration: 110 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock

On November 16 1959 Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk then after arrests he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other Perry Smith says little. Capote is implacable wanting the story believing this book will...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 113 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin

Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty he is injured and ends up in the hospital where he falls in love with his nurse Agnes von...

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Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman

Duration: 85 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, Tim Lewis

IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...

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Genres: Documentary, Biography, War

Country: United States

Director: Jorge Hinojosa

Duration: 89 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Betty Beck, Camille Beck, Diane Beck

Examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim 1918-1992 and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon. Interviews with Iceberg Slim Chris Rock Henry Rollins Ice-T Snoop Dogg and Quincy...

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Genres: Action, Biography, Drama

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Director: Rob Cohen

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner

Based on the life and career of Martial Arts superstar Bruce Lee. Haunted by demons. Bruce was taught Martial arts at childhood. Bruce then was told by his father to flee to the USA. There he opened up a Martial Arts school then was chosen to be the Green Hornets sidekick Kato. Then his big movie career that included The Big Boss and Enter the Dragon. Fighting many enemies along the...

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Genres: Biography, Comedy, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Caveh Zahedi

Duration: 98 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Caveh Zahedi, Christoff Colas, Rebecca Lord

In the moments before his third marriage Caveh Zahedi looks into the camera and flashes back to a vividly disturbing yet poignant story of his long obsession with prostitutes and how that obsession has served to destroy his previous marriages and relationships. Can Caveh overcome his addiction and finally succeed in a...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Steve McQueen

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Bill Condon

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell

Called Prok as an adult short for Professor Kinsey Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century despite the criticisms of such being nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University initially focusing on the study of gall...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Nicholas Ray

Duration: 168 min

Year: 1961

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield

The story of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Filmed on a relatively grand scale the film includes all of the major events referred to in the New Testament; his baptism by John the Baptist; the miracles - cripples walking blind men seeing; the fishes and the loaves; and so on. The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by...

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Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Bruce Beresford

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1985

Actors: Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige

This is a movie about the life of Israels king...

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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States

Director: Tim Metcalfe

Duration: 91 min

Year: 1995

Actors: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene

Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram befriends him and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzrams past is much more violent than he thought but also that hes capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser...

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Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

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Duration: 50 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Barry Boschelli, James Cavanaugh, Ray Cornell

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Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Bob Hercules

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Sasha Anawalt, Gerald Arpino, Charthel Arthur

The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, United States

Director: James Ivory

Duration: 139 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow

One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...

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Genres: Biography, Drama, War

Country: Germany, United States

Director: Sam Mendes

Duration: 125 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black

Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Mark Rydell

Duration: 92 min

Year: 2001

Actors: James Franco, Michael Moriarty, Valentina Cervi

A biopic about the actor James Dean whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life most notably the difficult relationship with his...

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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Kevin Asch

Duration: 89 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser

Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late...

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Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany

Director: Jan Troell

Duration: 131 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen

Sweden early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest war and poverty. A young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic womanizing and sometimes violent although ultimately loving...
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