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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, Music

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Steven M. Martin

Duration: 83 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Leon Theremin, Robert Moog, Clara Rockmore

A documentary about the amazing life of Leon Theremin inventor of the theremin the electronic musical instrument so beloved of 50s sci-fi movie music. Theremin amazed America with his instrument until his kidnapping by Soviet agents in the mid-30s. Upon his release from a labor camp he worked on surveillance devices for the KGB. Almost 60 years later he is brought back to America for a...

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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Country: United States

Director: Charlotte Zwerin

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cleveland

A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat...

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Carl Panzram: The Spirit Of Hatred And Revenge

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: United States

Director: John Borowski

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2011

Actors: John DiMaggio, Tom Lodewyck, David Salmonson

Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge examines the life of serial killer and rapist Carl Panzram who lived from 1891 to 1930. It examines how his life hardened him into a psychotic murderer. It also examines how a prison guard Henry Lesser forged a friendship with him and encouraged him to write an...

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Tyson (1995)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Uli Edel

Duration: 104 min

Year: 1995

Actors: George C. Scott, Paul Winfield, Michael Jai White

The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch to the undisputed title of Heavyweight Champion of the World and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly never focusing for long on anything in...

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Triumph Of The Spirit

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Sport, ...

Country: United States

Director: Robert M. Young

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, Robert Loggia

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to...

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Joseph: King Of Dreams

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Rob LaDuca, Robert C. Ramirez

Duration: 75 min

Year: 2000

Actors: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Richard Herd

When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by...

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The World's Fastest Indian

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: New Zealand, United States, Switzerland, Japan

Director: Roger Donaldson

Duration: 127 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea

For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand Burt Munro 1899-1978 has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s heart disease threatens his life so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles buys an old car builds a makeshift trailer...

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The Rocket: The Legend Of Rocket Richard

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: Canada

Director: Charles Binamé

Duration: 124 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton

In the late 1930s a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished himself as an ice hockey player of preternatural talent. Although that was enough to get him into the Montreal Canadiens his frequent injuries cost him the confidence of his team and the fans. In the face of these doubts Richard eventually shows the kind of aggressive and skillful play that would make him one of the...

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The Last Ride (2012)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Harry Thomason

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Fred Dalton Thompson

At the end of 1952 with the best years of Hank Williamss career behind him he hires a local kid to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Years shows in West Virginia and...

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The Pride Of The Yankees

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, Romance, ...

Country: United States

Director: Sam Wood

Duration: 87 min

Year: 1942

Actors: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth

Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous Luckiest Man speech at his farewell day in...

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The Idolmaker

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States

Director: Taylor Hackford

Duration: 117 min

Year: 1980

Actors: Ray Sharkey, Tovah Feldshuh, Peter Gallagher

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci who discovered among others Frankie Avalon and...

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The Great Caruso

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Richard Thorpe

Duration: 109 min

Year: 1951

Actors: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten

Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso 1873-1921. He loves Musetta in his home town of Naples and then Dorothy the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Operas patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both womens fathers: to one because he sings; to Dorothys because he is a peasant. To New York patricians Caruso is short barrel chested loud emotional unrefined. Their appreciation...

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The Glenn Miller Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical, ...

Country: United States

Director: Anthony Mann

Duration: 115 min

Year: 1954

Actors: James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan

The biography of the Bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944 with a lot of his arangements partly in an authentic...

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Chisum

Genres: Biography, Western

Country: United States

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen

Duration: 111 min

Year: 1970

Actors: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George

As one of the founders of the town of Lincoln John Chisum is increasingly worried as Lawrence Murphy moves in on the local stores bank and land by questionable means. Chisum and fellow honest ranch owner Henry Tunstall try and use the law but Murphy owns that too. Confrontation threatens and Tunstalls man Billy Bonney is not slow to get...

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The Gene Krupa Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Don Weis

Duration: 101 min

Year: 1959

Actors: Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren

The story of legendary jazz drummer Gene Krupa. Since his youth all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Genes father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesnt belong there and leaves to join his friend Eddies band. Ethel Eddies girlfriend convinces...

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The Longshots

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, ...

Country: United States

Director: Fred Durst

Duration: 94 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who at the age of eleven became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year...

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Howl

Genres: Biography, Drama

Country: United States

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2010

Actors: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott

Its San Francisco in 1957 and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl the film recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist societys reaction the obscenity trial and animation that echoes the poems surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a...

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The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Seth Gordon

Duration: 79 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Mark Alpiger

In the early 1980s legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day an Iowan who runs Funspot an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks...

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The Jackie Robinson Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Alfred E. Green

Duration: 76 min

Year: 1950

Actors: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson

Biography of Jackie Robinson the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

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The Hurricane

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Norman Jewison

Duration: 146 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger

This film tells the story of Rubin Hurricane Carter an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography...

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The Hammer (2010)

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Oren Kaplan

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Russell Harvard, Raymond J. Barry, Shoshannah Stern

THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination he uses his perceived disability as an asset and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and...

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Cannibal! The Musical

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Thriller, ...

Country: United States

Director: Trey Parker

Duration: 95 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool

Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story which is then related to the...

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The Buddy Holly Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Country: United States

Director: Steve Rash

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1978

Actors: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith

The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled from the days when Peggy Sue was Cindy Lou a song about his first girlfriend to the meteoric run of Thatll Be the Day up the charts to his marriage breakup with the Crickets reunion with the Crickets and untimely...

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The Fighter

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States

Director: David O. Russell

Duration: 116 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams

The Fighter is a drama about boxer Irish Micky Wards unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KOd by drugs and...

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Brigham Young

Genres: Biography, History, Romance, Western

Country: United States

Director: Henry Hathaway

Duration: 114 min

Year: 1940

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger

The true story of the famous Mormon leader Brigham Young and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two of his people Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the...

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God's Faithful Servant: Barla

Genres: Animation, Biography, Drama

Country: Turkey

Director: Orhan Öztürk Esin

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Faruk Akgören, Ugur Aslanoglu, Murat Aydin

Having been one of the most eminent scholars of the recent past Bediuzzaman Said Nursis Barla...

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The Express

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Gary Fleder

Duration: 130 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown

This biopic focuses on the relationship of Ernie Davis 1939-1963 a gifted African-American athlete and his coach from 1958 to 1962 at Syracuse University Ben Schwartzwalder 1909-1993. Schwartzwalder recruits Davis with the help of All-American running back Jim Brown. The civil rights movement is gaining steam; Davis experiences prejudice on campus in town and on the field sometimes...

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Talk To Me

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee

The true life story of Ralph Waldo Petey Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s in Washington D.C. vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and tell it like it is. With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell...

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The Crash Reel

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Family, Sport

Country: United States

Director: Lucy Walker

Duration: 108 min

Year: 2013

Actors: Kevin Pearce, Shaun White, Mason Aguirre

Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics pushing one another to ever more dangerous tricks until Kevin crashes on a Park City half-pipe barely surviving. As Kevin recovers from his injury Shaun wins Gold. Now all Kevin...

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