Historical Figure Movies

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. While her service to her country is...

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family...

Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E....

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by...

The rags to riches story of Sophie Tucker, an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, and Hollywood...

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.

A French spy (Mary Castle) flirts with an Indian chief's son (Jon Hall) amid war in 1753 Williamsburg, Va.

The great awakening in the Colonies in the spring of 1775; the patriotic activities of Samuel Adams and John Hancock; the midnight ride of Paul...

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

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this...

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day...

A documentary on the former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch.

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

based on the true story of Freddie Knoller, a young man fleeing Vienna during the rise of Nazi Germany, set in 1940s Paris, unfolding against the...

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...

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival...

Elisabeth of Austria is a German movie with Lil Dagover as royalty Elisabeth who has many men to choose from.

Period drama about the life of Suphankanlaya, a princess who lived contemporary with King Naresuan and Queen Suriyothai in the 16th century Ayutthaya...