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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 Fog of War

2003 ★ 7.7

Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietna

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RF

2004 ★ 8.0

David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his elde

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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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Attack from the Sea

1953 ★ 6.0

The historical and biographic movie about the glorified Russian naval commander Ushakov. France begins aggressive wars. The Russian and allied troops freeing It

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I, Claudius

1976 ★ 7.8

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tibe

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Ferrari: Race to Immortality

2017 ★ 7.0

The late 1950s were known as golden years in the world of motor racing, champions were made and lost on a Sunday, and no losses were greater than those of Enzo

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Camões

1946 ★ 6.8

The adventurous life of Portugal's epic poet, Luis de Camões. Camões is a 1946 drama and history film directed and written by José Leitão de Barros, with writin

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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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Hitler: A Career

1977 ★ 7.4

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychol

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Schindler's List

1993 ★ 8.6

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War

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Young Washington

2026 ★ 8.1

Before he led a nation, George Washington was a young soldier thrown into a global conflict. With alliances crumbling and war closing in, he must choose who to

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Reign

2013 ★ 8.0

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court. Reign is an historical romantic drama television series

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Faith Makes Great

2021 ★ 8.0

One hundred years since the founding of the Communist Party of China, Faith Makes Great tells stories from different times in history that chronicle the people'

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Cromwell

1970 ★ 6.6

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn i

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Imperial Venus

1962 ★ 4.1

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother

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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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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 Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958 ★ 6.8

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualified to be sent as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn to

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Kennedy

1983 ★ 6.3

Kennedy is a five-hour miniseries written by Reg Gadney and directed by Jim Goddard. The miniseries was produced by Central Independent Television and originall

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George Washington

1984 ★ 7.7

This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Th

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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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Merton: A Film Biography

1984 ★ 8.5

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappis

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