Biography Movies

With seven Winter X-Games gold medals and a career spanning twenty years, Tanner Hall has cemented himself as an icon and legend in the sport of skiin...

A documentary on Pakistani architect and urban planner Perween Rahman and her remarkable work for Karachi’s poor.

Hosted by Jack Perkins (of A&E's "Biography" series),this documentary profiles the life of L.L. Bean, the Maine outdoorsman turned entrepreneur who c...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one of the great French writers and poets and the onl...

A young Persian-American boy takes matters into his own hands to save his pet goat from being eaten.

In the film, the outstanding contemporary avant-garde poet Vladimir Ignatiev, the heir of OBERIUT, appeared. He played himself and read his own poetry...

A glimpse into the lives of a family torn apart by violence.

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film r...

The life and the work of José Leonilson, one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 80's, who died of AIDS at the age of 36 in 1993. The video...

An in-depth profile of Peter Maxwell Slattery, the Melbourne-based UFO contactee who has spun his extra-terrestrial experiences into bestselling books...

The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her studio in Zurich as well as at the Museum of Modern Ar...

A documentary about lesbians preserving their history, with a focus on the work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Includes interviews with Joan Nestle...

Four young gay guys investigate how Hungarian society and the state have been treating gays and how gays' personal experiences of social and political...

This feature-length documentary chronicles the life and playful methods of Dutch pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg, a significant figure in post-W...

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' is a 1992 American short documentary film about Margaret Caroline Anderson, who founded t...