Browse Historical Figure Movies

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

Switzerland in the 13th century: Shot in the middle of World War II, this classic film returns to the origins of Switzerland and turns about the probl...

Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pull...

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on b...

Ka'iulani, a 19th-century Hawaiian princess, is raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American busine...

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

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome ass...

A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader, in an attempt to profile a contradictory dictator...

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

TAITA BOVES chronicles a thirst for revenge that devastated a country. It tells the true story of Jose Tomás Boves, a cruel man who became a legend du...

The 'Hidden Faith of Our Founding Fathers' is perhaps the first and only documentary to go where no film has ever gone before: into the hidden faith o...

An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a narra...

This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who...

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 modern...

A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman re...

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

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

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944),a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.