Historical Figure Movies

  • 2020
    Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine

    Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine

    Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine

    82020HD

    A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the...

    Auguste Escoffier: The Birth of Haute Cuisine
  • 2018
    The Emperor of Paris

    The Emperor of Paris

    The Emperor of Paris

    6.32018HD

    Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments...

    The Emperor of Paris
  • 1993
    Geronimo: An American Legend

    Geronimo: An American Legend

    Geronimo: An American Legend

    6.31993HD

    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...

    Geronimo: An American Legend
  • 2024
    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

    8.52024HD

    The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by...

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
  • 2010
    Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

    Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

    Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

    5.52010HD

    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...

    Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
  • 1988
    The Diary of King Yonsan

    The Diary of King Yonsan

    The Diary of King Yonsan

    01988HD

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

    The Diary of King Yonsan
  • 2014
    Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story

    Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story

    Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story

    92014HD

    In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive. With an American mother and...

    Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
  • 1988
    Jane B. by Agnès V.

    Jane B. by Agnès V.

    Jane B. by Agnès V.

    6.6641988HD

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

    Jane B. by Agnès V.
  • 2020
    The Last Apostle: Journies in the Holy Land

    The Last Apostle: Journies in the Holy Land

    The Last Apostle: Journies in the Holy Land

    8.52020HD

    Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in the mountainous Turkish countryside of Rough...

    The Last Apostle: Journies in the Holy Land
  • 1992
    Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    7.5441992HD

    A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...

    Malcolm X
  • 1940
    Edison, the Man

    Edison, the Man

    Edison, the Man

    6.81940HD

    In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

    Edison, the Man
  • 2005
    Grizzly Man

    Grizzly Man

    Grizzly Man

    7.5312005HD

    Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in...

    Grizzly Man
  • 1991
    Sisi/Last Minute

    Sisi/Last Minute

    Sisi/Last Minute

    31991HD

    The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around women but (according to this film) was constantly...

    Sisi/Last Minute
  • 2013
    Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth

    Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth

    Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth

    62013HD

    Was the legendary playwright William Shakespeare really the author of his acclaimed plays? Or was he just a straw man working for a secret society?...

    Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth
  • 1974
    The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

    The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

    The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

    41974HD

    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 Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
  • 1966
    The Last Empress

    The Last Empress

    The Last Empress

    01966HD

    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...

    The Last Empress
  • 2022
    Becoming Marilyn

    Becoming Marilyn

    Becoming Marilyn

    7.62022HD

    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...

    Becoming Marilyn
  • 2016
    The Chosen

    The Chosen

    The Chosen

    5.8092016HD

    Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...

    The Chosen
  • 2021
    Mon nom est Johnny

    Mon nom est Johnny

    Mon nom est Johnny

    02021HD

    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...

    Mon nom est Johnny
  • 1971
    The Music Lovers

    The Music Lovers

    The Music Lovers

    6.51971HD

    Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky...

    The Music Lovers