Browse Movies : TBA Month : Biography (Page #5)

The story will showcase the eccentric life of "GQ" and "Esquire" magazine founder David Smart. He is known for his extreme germ phobia, including creating a series of instructional films on health and hygiene, as well as living the life of a womanizer. Josh Lucas will play a fictional FBI agent who investigates Smart.

The story centers on the Chilean dissident movement in the wake of General Augusto Pinochet's seizure of power in 1973.

A tale of forbidden love set against the rise of American cinema. At the turn of the century, Mary Pickford becomes the first businesswoman in Hollywood, having founded United Artists. Swept off her feet by the swashbuckling actor Douglas Fairbanks, the very first media-scrutinized love affair in Hollywood ensues, and they are faced with the danger of the masses’ public adoration.

Abraham Lincoln's character is shaped by the hardships and tragedy of his youth, as well as the two women who guided him on the path to becoming one of the most influential Presidents in United States history

During his final days, a famous American rock star in the early ’70s, navigates his relationships with two women in Paris — a glamorous French Countess and his California “soulmate.”

The story of legendary British war photographer Don McCullin. Working for the Sunday Times from the late 60’s to the early 80’s, he risked his life to photograph the harsh realities of war.

Raised in a tough area of Detroit, Bart Scott grows up to play football for the Baltimore Ravens as a linebacker and then later signs with the New York Jets for $48 million for six years.

In the 1960s, Mississippi State University comes under intense fire for not allowing its athletic teams to play schools that have integrated teams. Rules prevent the MSU basketball team from reaching the championships. The university's president Dean Colvard initially supports the rule. He then abolishes it, only to come under attack from state politicians and other parties.

The story centers on the former Black Sabbath singer/reality TV star and head of the Osbourne family.

Story traces the rise of Rick “Freeway” Ross as he starts out in the 1980s selling cocaine nationwide.

Vince Lombardi, a fiery disciplinarian, seems stuck when he is offensive line coach of a New York Giants team that loses the 1958 championship game. His Giants counterpart on the defense, the cool Tom Landry, is signed to head the Dallas Cowboys after being widely courted. Lombardi practically has to beg to run a Packers team so dismal that other team owners want to fold the franchise. Lombardi turns the team into perennial winners, and gets his showdown with Landry in the 1967 league championship game, known as the Ice Bowl because it is played in 13 below zero temperatures. The Packers win.

A biopic about the famed paleontologist and conservationist Richard Leakey. Leaky battles with ivory poachers who threaten the existence of the African elephant population and the very soul of Africa.

A biopic of Rock Hudson, the Hollywood screen icon who lived in fear of the discovery of his gay lifestyle.

Starting in the 1960s, Angela Davis becomes a prominent activist and radical as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the 1920's, Bill Tilden dominates tennis and wins six straight US Open singles titles, including becoming the first American to win Wimbledon. As much as he is celebrated, he is also extremely self destructive, goes to jail twice for sexual misbehavior with teenage boys and ultimately dies penniless.

The story is set in early 1980s New York as Madonna Louise Ciccone works on her first album, struggling in a business that treats women badly, while also dealing with a burgeoning love life and the first hints of fame.

In the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, record producer James William Guercio runs recording studio Caribou Records. From around 1971 to 1985, Caribou is the site of recordings by, among others, Chicago, Amy Grant, Joe Walsh, Paul McCartney and Elton John. John even titled one album after the studio. The facilities are destroyed by a fire in 1985.

Steve Banerjee goes from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolves into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee becomes wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. Banerjee hires a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations go sour. After being arrested, Banerjee dies in jail awaiting his trial.