Biographies (Film + TV)

Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

A dramatization of the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.

Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.

Musical biography chronicling the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.

The extraordinary veritable story of the black bear who would become the inspiration for the stories of A.A. Milne, and the heroic man who saved her life.

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

The U.S. government sends Major Thomas Blake on a secret mission when the Bey of Tripoli starts demanding tribute from American merchant ships in the Mediterranean in the early 1800's. His pose as a Tory on the ship alienates his fellow passengers, Anne Ridgeway, and her brother Sam. Off Tripoli, the ship is captured by the Bey's pirates, but Blake makes a friend of the Bey when he saves his life. Blake learns that a servant girl, Zoltah, and her friends ate plotting to kill the Bey, and that the Bey also has a spy in the State Department, Tobias Sharpe, who sends advance information about American ship movements.

A straight-line historical account of the Du Pont chemical manufacturing company and its vital role in the growth of the USA.

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove his worth.

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.

Biography of Frederic Chopin.

Louis Napoleon III (Claude Rains) takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg (Brian Aherne) to add Mexico to his empire.

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

A biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and afterwards delivered the Ten Commandments from God.