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Biography films, also known as biopics, tell the story of a notable historical figure. Topic includes list of all biography films released to date as well as information about starring actors and actresses.

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Miracle (2004) - IMDb

Directed by Gavin O'Connor. With Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathan West, Noah Emmerich. Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349825/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
American Sniper (2014) - IMDb

Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis. Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/?ref_=nv_sr_1
12 Years a Slave (2013) - IMDb

Directed by Steve McQueen. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt. In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Lincoln (2012) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Raging Bull (1980) - IMDb

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent. An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Gandhi (1982) - IMDb

Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Fighter (2010) - IMDb

Directed by David O. Russell. With Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo. A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Hurricane (1999) - IMDb

Directed by Norman Jewison. With Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber. The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174856/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Unbroken (2014) - IMDb

Directed by Angelina Jolie. With Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund. After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1809398/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - IMDb

Directed by David Lean. With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins. Follows a brilliant, flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/?ref_=nv_sr_3
Steve Jobs (2015) - IMDb

Directed by Danny Boyle. With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels. Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2080374/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Ray (2004) - IMDb

Directed by Taylor Hackford. With Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell. The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350258/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Walk the Line (2005) - IMDb

Directed by James Mangold. With Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick. A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358273/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Public Enemies (2009) - IMDb

Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, David Wenham, Christian Stolte. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Captain Phillips (2013) - IMDb

Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Social Network (2010) - IMDb

Directed by David Fincher. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara. Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Erin Brockovich (2000) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick. An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/?ref_=nv_sr_1
American Gangster (2007) - IMDb

Directed by Ridley Scott. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765429/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - IMDb

Directed by Gabriele Muccino. With Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/?ref_=nv_sr_1
A Beautiful Mind (2001) - IMDb

Directed by Ron Howard. With Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer. After a brilliant but asocial mathematician, John Nash, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Catch Me If You Can (2002) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen. A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - IMDb

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Aviator (2004) - IMDb

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly. A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Schindler's List (1993) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Miracle (2004) - IMDb

Directed by Gavin O'Connor. With Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathan West, Noah Emmerich. Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349825/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
American Sniper (2014) - IMDb

Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis. Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/?ref_=nv_sr_1
12 Years a Slave (2013) - IMDb

Directed by Steve McQueen. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt. In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Lincoln (2012) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Raging Bull (1980) - IMDb

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent. An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Gandhi (1982) - IMDb

Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Fighter (2010) - IMDb

Directed by David O. Russell. With Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo. A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Hurricane (1999) - IMDb

Directed by Norman Jewison. With Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber. The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174856/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Unbroken (2014) - IMDb

Directed by Angelina Jolie. With Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund. After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1809398/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - IMDb

Directed by David Lean. With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins. Follows a brilliant, flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/?ref_=nv_sr_3
Steve Jobs (2015) - IMDb

Directed by Danny Boyle. With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels. Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2080374/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Ray (2004) - IMDb

Directed by Taylor Hackford. With Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell. The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350258/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Walk the Line (2005) - IMDb

Directed by James Mangold. With Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick. A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358273/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Public Enemies (2009) - IMDb

Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, David Wenham, Christian Stolte. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Captain Phillips (2013) - IMDb

Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Social Network (2010) - IMDb

Directed by David Fincher. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara. Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Erin Brockovich (2000) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick. An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/?ref_=nv_sr_1
American Gangster (2007) - IMDb

Directed by Ridley Scott. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin. In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765429/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - IMDb

Directed by Gabriele Muccino. With Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/?ref_=nv_sr_1
A Beautiful Mind (2001) - IMDb

Directed by Ron Howard. With Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer. After a brilliant but asocial mathematician, John Nash, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Catch Me If You Can (2002) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen. A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - IMDb

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Aviator (2004) - IMDb

Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly. A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Schindler's List (1993) - IMDb

Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Biography/Historical

Biography films, also known as biopics, tell the story of a notable historical figure. Topic includes list of all biography films released to date as well as information about starring actors and actresses.

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