Historical Figure Movies

Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and...

Highlights Rajamouli’s influence on Indian and international cinema, with interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.

In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.

The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I....

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime...

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

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...

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

A historical drama about the life of Prince Yeonsan of Joseon,.

Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will...

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is...

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals...

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written...

Everyone knows his name. The novels on the life and crimes of Hannibal Lecter are a worldwide phenomenon, and so are the movies and the TV show. Not...

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...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts...

A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.