Historical Figure Movies

Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers...

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.

The great awakening in the Colonies in the spring of 1775; the patriotic activities of Samuel Adams and John Hancock; the midnight ride of Paul...

222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos from prison. He becomes a witness to the...

Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.

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

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox...

Revealed in independant movies such as My Own Private Idaho, blockbuster movie star in Point Break and Speed, hero of the digital era in The Matrix,...

King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth...

White settlers plan to defy the agreement between the government and the Comanche to mine for silver on Comanche lands, while scout Jim Bowie tries...

The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From...

CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is...

When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's...

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated...

One of the most important and exciting historical research of all time, the study of the DNA of the navigator Christopher Columbus, finally answers...

Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and...

Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Jeanne Bécu, aka Madame du Barry, charms her way into the...

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