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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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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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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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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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Ancient Mysteries

1994 ★ 7.5

Ancient Mysteries is a television series that was produced by FilmRoos and originally broadcast on A&E between 7 January 1994 and 3 May 1998 with reruns airing

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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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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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Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009 ★ 7.3

Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounter

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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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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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JK

2006 ★ 8.2

Juscelino Kubitschek was born in Diamantina. Rising from a humble childhood to become a respected physician, he married Sarah and began the journey that would l

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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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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

2012 ★ 5.8

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers. Abraham Lincoln: Vamp

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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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Utro

1966 ★ 5.3

She loves to ride in the bus and read smart book ... He likes to sit by the water and drink soda ... She loves to write down their thoughts on the fly and be gl

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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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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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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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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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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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