Movie List for "biography"

Badminton player turned celebrity decides to immortalize himself and share his achievements in winning silver twice in the Olympics badminton event. Year 2018.

Centering on Ip Man’s migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts. Year 2010.

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel. Year 1955.

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela. Year 2007.

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh’s life are examined. Year 1991.

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her. Year 2001.

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists. Year 1986.

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death. Year 2013.

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew. Year 1964.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era. Year 2008.

The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. Year 2010.

Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. Year 1972.

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. Year 2013.

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. Year 1994.

An autistic boy discovers he has a talent for running and with the help of the mother participates in a major marathon. Year 2005.

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. Year 2006.