|
|
>
Biographical Films
|
| |
|
Films that focus on one person, couple or family's life.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Items:
21
- 30
|
|
|
|
|
21
|
|
|
General Idi Amin Dada
|
|
Description:
When Barbet Schroeder released his documentary General Idi Amin Dada in 1974, it must have been quite a sensation. Amin gave full cooperation to Schroeder (the documentary carries the subtitle "Self Portrait"), sitting for numerous interviews,...
Edit
|
|
|
|
22
|
|
|
Giuliani Time
|
|
Description:
One of the most talked-about and controversial theatrical releases of 2006 was more than five years in the making. Giuliani Time investigates the stories behind the "new" New York City that Giuliani laid claim to. From "quality of life" policing to...
Edit
|
|
|
|
23
|
|
|
Grey Gardens
|
|
Description:
Grey Gardens is the name of a neglected, sprawling estate gone to seed. The crumbling mansion was home to Edith Bouvier Beale, often referred to as "Big Edie," and her daughter, "Little Edie." The East Hampton, Long Island, home became the center of...
Edit
|
|
|
|
24
|
|
|
Grizzley Man
|
|
Description:
A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell. He periodically journeyed to Alaska to study and live with the bears. He was killed, along with his his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by a rogue bear in October 2003. The films...
Edit
|
|
|
|
25
|
|
|
Howard Zinn:You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
|
|
Description:
In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn...
Edit
|
|
|
|
26
|
|
|
Iceman Interviews, The
|
|
Description:
An abused young man. A hair-trigger temper. A trail of dead bodies. What makes a cold-blooded killer tick? THE ICEMAN AND THE PSYCHIATRIST is now available for the first time on DVD. Renowned forensic psychologist Dr. Park Dietz gets up close, personal...
Edit
|
|
|
|
27
|
|
|
Imagine
|
|
Description:
This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed into a fascinating life story of one of the most complex and fascinating men of the modern music era....
Edit
|
|
|
|
28
|
|
|
In the Realms of the Unreal: Mystery Henry Darger
|
|
Description:
In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in Illinois's asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his...
Edit
|
|
|
|
29
|
|
|
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story
|
|
Description:
Robert Redford is the executive producer (and narrator) of this fine, eye-opening documentary about the violent events that took place in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Indian activists ended up in an extended standoff with FBI...
Edit
|
|
|
|
30
|
|
|
Jackson Pollock
|
|
Description:
Jackson Pollock's life and death are the stuff that American myths are made of. Born on the plains of Wyoming, he was the 'cowboy' who became a star of the sophisticated New York art world, until his death in a drunken car crash in 1956, at the age of...
Edit
|
|
|
|
pages:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
|
|
|
|
Top of Page
|
| |
