Keyword: biography

Monarch

7

2000

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From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.

The Story of Louis Pasteur

7.3

1936

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

Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

5.2

1992

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This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.

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.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The True Story

6.8

2011

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This iconic American story was written in 1900 by L Frank Baum, a Chicago businessman, journalist, chicken breeder, actor, boutique owner, Hollywood movie director and lifelong fan of all things innovative and technological. His life spanned an era of remarkable invention and achievement in America and many of these developments helped to fuel this great storytellers imagination. His ambition was to create the first genuine American fairytale and the story continues to fascinate, inspire and engage millions of fans of all ages from all over the world. This documentary explores how The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has come to symbolise the American Dream and includes previously unseen footage from the Baum family archives, still photographs and clips from the early Oz films, as well as interviews with family members, literary experts and American historians as it tells the story of one mans life in parallel to the development of modern America.

Betty and Coretta

6.2

2013

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The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

Buck

7.6

2011

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An examination of the life of acclaimed horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become a well-known expert in the interactions between horses and people.

Dolly Parton: Here I Am

7.3

2019

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In this documentary, the life, career and music of Dolly Parton are reflected in interviews with friends and companions and the artist herself, interlaced with clips of Partons performances.

Song of Norway

4

1970

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Based on the life of Norways greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Griegs music with added lyrics.

Joe Orton Laid Bare

7.4

2017

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Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

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.

Marie

6.7

1985

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A political appointee risks her job and her life to expose corruption.