Historical Figure Movies

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

Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV...

In this documentary film, the final day in the short life of the guitar god Jimi Hendrix is reconstructed using theories swirling around a CIA hit lis...

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Movie despicting the life and accomplishments of Korean Admiral Yi Sun Shin.

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 vibr...

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

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

The 'Hidden Faith of Our Founding Fathers' is perhaps the first and only documentary to go where no film has ever gone before: into the hidden faith o...

A humanistic account of "the Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills", in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of fa...

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic r...

A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the modern...

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

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

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

Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society? No...

Queen Yun reigned with King Sunjong since she was just 13 years old. She hid the royal seals needed to complete an agreement between Korea and Japan w...