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Biography

1987 ★ 6.7

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike

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John Adams

2008 ★ 7.7

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting

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The Naked Director

2019 ★ 7.3

Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the chara

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The Directors

1999 ★ 6.1

Documentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors. The television series "The Directors" is a documentary biography series that f

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Hideyoshi

1996 ★ 9.7

A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extr

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37 Grad

1994 ★ 9.0

37° reports on typical life situations in our society from an unusual perspective: the camera accompanies a group or individual people, usually in a particularl

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Coal Miner's Daughter

1980 ★ 7.2

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame. Music Drama History

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An Attempted Biography of Félicie Véry

2026 ★ 0.0

What happened between 1991 and 1992? Romance Documentary

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Edward the Seventh

1975 ★ 6.6

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama miniseries produced by ATV. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, the series features depictions

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Pulp

1972 ★ 5.8

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta. Mystery Crime Drama Co

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Isadora

1968 ★ 6.2

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as w

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The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968 ★ 6.0

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star. Drama Crime Mystery

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Al Capone

1959 ★ 6.6

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capo

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The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

1953 ★ 6.4

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more tha

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Buñuel

1984 ★ 6.0

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel.

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The Jackie Robinson Story

1950 ★ 6.3

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. D

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Cucurrucucú Paloma

1965 ★ 6.0

Biography of a fictional ranchera singer whose career trajectory seems to parallel that of the actress performing the role. Comedy Drama Music

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Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

1994 ★ 8.8

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death

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D'un film à l'autre

2011 ★ 7.9

On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum

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Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-sin

2004 ★ 6.0

Admiral Yi Sun-shin, who led the Joseon Navy to a myth of invincibility during the Hideyoshi invasion, was a true soldier and leader who struggled to protect pe

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Wherever She Goes

1951 ★ 8.2

Film biography of Eileen Joyce, the celebrated Australian pianist, concentrating on her childhood in the Tasmanian bush and the Kalgoorlie goldfields. Opening a

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Urban Legends

2007 ★ 7.2

Urban Legends is a 30 minute 2007 television documentary-style series hosted by Michael Allcock. David Hewlett became the new host in 2011. In each episode, thr

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Grey Owl

1999 ★ 5.6

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where

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Bound for Glory

1976 ★ 6.9

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the sufferin

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