Life Story Movies

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to...

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist...

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the...

The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.

A poignant and humorous film telling the life story of the hugely popular author of the discworld series of books, in his own words.

Told in his own words using interviews spanning from the 1980s through now, father and tennis coach Richard Williams retraces his family's journey...

A Bollywood session violinist finds expression in an unlikely place. The day unfolds to reveal startling truths about music, art, life and survival.

Xochil is a woman who must immerse in her past to find herself, opening the doors to a world that she thought was long forgotten.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Meet Duewand Collier Jr.-Male, 68 years old, American Citizen, a child conceived in the backdrop of the Philippines-American Mutual Defense Treaty,...

A follow up to NTR: Kathanayakudu which was based on N.T. Rama Rao's life and acting career. This movie focuses on his political career.

The story about how Britt-Marie took back the brush factory from her husband’s cruel brother at the end of the fifties was one of Malin’s...

Based on the memoirs of Josephine Marcus Earp, a young opera singer from San Francisco, this docudrama tells the story of how she became the wife of...

This is the story of how a prince became a king, a revealing portrait of our new monarch across the seven decades he spent as heir to the throne....

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my...

Paul Bedel will be 75 soon. He's and old bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a verger. He lives in a farm from another time with his two sisters,...

Honour West and Joan Camuglia-May share their experiences in this upbeat roller-skating documentary.