Historical Figure Movies

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer...

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see...

From New York to Los Angeles, a journey in the United States, in the footsteps of Johnny Hallyday, on tour in the country he has always admired. On...

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

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of...

A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his...

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains...

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell,...

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol...

Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at...

A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history...

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...

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the...

George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly gets his confidence from his Thompson SMG and his girl...

Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.

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