Country: United States
Genre: Action, Biography, Western
Wild Bill Hickok famed lawman and gunman of the Old West is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by but cannot love Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall who blames Bill for abandoning the boys mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill and Bills ghosts his failing eyesight and his fondness for opium may make McCalls task...
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
The story of Oscar Wilde genius poet playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosies father the enraged Marquise of Queensberry Wilde refused to flee the country and was...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Iconic writer director actor comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access Emmy-winning Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Woody Allen: A Documentary chronicles Allens career -...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his familys vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US this is the life- story of George M. Cohan who produced directed wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Dr. Jack Kevorkian 1928 - 2011 in the 1990s when he defies Michigan law assisting the suicide of terminally-ill persons. Support comes from his sister a lab tech the Hemlock Society president and a lawyer. The child of survivors of the Armenian genocide interviews applicants: his sister video tapes them. He assembles a device allowing a person to initiate a three-chemical intravenous drip....
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
Biographical drama based on the early life of playwright Sean OCasey depicting his rise from the 1910 Dublin slums to the celebrated openings of his early plays. Johnny Cassidy an impoverished idealist whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life - involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike dawdling...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield Illinois to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann courts his future wife Mary Todd and agrees to go into...
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