Tag Archives: biography

In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene; Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an ...

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virgina that results in a violent ...

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway ...

A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes ...

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes ...

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they ...

Frank Dux has entered the “kumite”, an illegal underground martial-arts competition where serious injury and even death are not ...

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins — with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes ...

Biopic of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer residing at Bhikiwind, Punjab, near the Indo-Pak border, crossed the border after having a couple of drinks. ...

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of ...

The love story between an actress and a director. Inspired by the life of the late south Indian actress Silk Smitha.

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams’ life over the course of 40 years.

How many working class Balmain boys grow up to be showgirls? Not just any showgirl but a household name, a legend of Kings Cross, a daytime TV ...

Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to ...

Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America’s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most ...

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who ...

The story of the famous and influential 1960’s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful ...

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student ...

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his ...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol’s famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although ...

Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, ...

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of ...

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in ...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen’s prescribed “short rest” from a psychiatrist she had met only once ...

This compelling drama tells the remarkable true story of slain human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who became a powerful voice against the ...

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.