Historical Figure Movies

20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind),...

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell,...

The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling young actor through movie stardom and his...

In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive. With an American mother and...

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and charismatic, but also rebellious, favorite son of...

Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.

Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how close the mission came to disaster.

There are four ancient Beauties: a female warrior Liu Rusi, a sentimental winebibber Chen Zilian, a startling geisha Li Mengying and a prodigal...

Biography of a star and figure study : This fascinating portrait is for anyone who wants to know more about the man behind the mask. By the end of...

The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose...

In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film...

Everyone knows his name. The novels on the life and crimes of Hannibal Lecter are a worldwide phenomenon, and so are the movies and the TV show. Not...

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who plays her – and her father George Weisz,...

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.

Dutch television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan".

In 1584, at Kraeng, King Naresuan continued the war for the independence of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The conflict escalated when King Nanda Bayin of...