Keyword: biography

The Grey Fox

7.6

1982

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When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

Hostage

4.5

1983

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Horrific true tale set in late-1970s Australia and later West Germany about an abused wife who learns in horror that her sadistic German-born husband is actually a fanatical neo-Nazi.

Babe

7.4

1975

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The story of Babe Didrickson, who won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics and returned to become a world champion golfer, her battles to be accepted as a woman in a mans sports world, and her fight against cancer.

Saving Lincoln

5.3

2013

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The story of Mr. Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the Presidents life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.

Notes on Blindness

7.1

2016

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In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece. With exclusive access to these original recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness.

War Photographer

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2001

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Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Hergé: In the Shadow of Tintin

7.3

2016

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A complex and complicated artist, Georges Remi created one of the most famous characters in the world, Tintin, for young readers. With exceptional access to the archives of Studios Hergé and Moulinsart, this program looks at Remis life and the way he changed the art of comic strips.

Last Call

6.5

2002

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Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant and protege who later wrote a memoir of their time together.

Sunshine

8.1

1973

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A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her daughter discover she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left.

Dixie

6.2

1943

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A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: Dixie. The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song Dixie.

Being Evel

7.1

2015

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The real story behind the myth of American icon Robert Evel Knievel and his legacy.

Song Without End

5

1960

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The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.