Historical Figure Movies

Dive into an epic journey with Simon Lorenzi, a climber who made history by opening the world’s second 9a boulder. After overcoming various...

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected...

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol...

Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.

The life of Moses as told through the Book of Exodus, the imagination of a dying boy, and the ballads of his father.

Footballer Diego Armando Maradona rises to stardom and makes the hearts of fans beat faster in both Argentina and Naples, but his life path hasn't...

In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife...

Switzerland in the 13th century: Shot in the middle of World War II, this classic film returns to the origins of Switzerland and turns about the...

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to...

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and...

A series of figure studies using high-speed HD video, and inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...

Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the...

Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against...

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

Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.

An overview of John F. Kennedy's political career. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., in...