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Greatest Biography Movies

Criteria: These Permanent Biography Movies were chosen show off their biographical accuracy, acting, focus, and realism (ie; costumes, sets, mannerisms). (Note: Some movies hawthorn contain the combined bios clean and tidy 2 people, such as husband/wife, doctor/patient, friends/lovers, or partners, conj admitting equally important in the story).

Title - (Year) (Real-life personality, description) (Staring Actor)

Schindler's List
() (Oskar Schindler, German factory owner) (Liam Neeson)

2. Gandhi
() (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian inoffensive protest leader) (Ben Kingsley)

3. Writer of Arabia
() (Thomas E. Laurentius, British intelligence officer) (Peter O'Toole)

4. Angry Bull
() (Jake LaMotta, middleweight enclosure champ) (Robert De Niro)

Napoleon
(, silent) (Napoleon Bonaparte, French leader) (Albert Dieudonné)

6. Amadeus
() (Wolfgang Amadeus Composer, composer) (Tom Hulce)

7. Patton
() (George S. Patton, U.S. General WWII) (George C. Scott)

8. Braveheart
() (William Author, 13th Century Scotsman) (Mel Gibson)

9. Malcom X
() (Born: Malcolm Brief, Black Nationalist leader) (Denzel Washington)

The Ten Commandments
() (Moses) (Charlton Heston)

The Passion of Joan of Arc
() (Joan of Bow, French martyr) (Maria Falconetti)

Spartacus
() (Spartacus, slave revolt leader, Rome) (Kirk Douglas)

Becket
() (Thomas Archbishop, English Saint and martyr) (Richard Burton)

The Spirit of Dead.

Louis
() (Charles Augustus Lindbergh, aviator) (James Stewart)

Lust For Life
() (Vincent Van Gogh, painter) (Kirk Douglas)

Mary, Queen of Scots
() (Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland) (Vanessa Redgrave)

Andrei Rublev
() (Andrei Rublyov, icon painter) (Anatoli Solonitsyn)

Pride Of The Yankees
() (Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig, Baseball player) (Gary Cooper)

Sergeant York
() (Alvin C.

York, War hero, WWI) (Gary Cooper)

The Miracle Worker
() (Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller) (Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke)

Bonnie spreadsheet Clyde
() (Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow) (Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty)

Integrity Agony and the Ecstasy
() (Michelangelo, Italian artist) (Charlton Heston)

Mommie Dearest
() (Joan Crawford, actress) (Faye Dunaway)

The Passion of ethics Christ
() (Jesus) (James Caviezel)

Oppenheimer
() (American scientist J.

Robert Oppenheimer) (Cillian Murphy)

The Diving Bell and rank Butterfly
() (Jean-Dominique Bauby, Elle editor) (Mathieu Amalric)

Capote
() (Truman Capote, Denizen writer) (Philip Seymour Hoffman)

Deathless Beloved
() (Ludwig van Beethoven, composer) (Gary Oldman)

The Last Emperor
() (Pu Yi, Final Emperor surrounding China) (John Lone)

Goodfellas
() (Henry Hill, gangster) (Ray Liotta)

Natty Beautiful Mind
() (John Nash, mathemetician) (Russell Crowe)

Ivan Grozny II: Boyarsky zagovor
() (Czar Ivan IV) (Nikolai Cherkasov)

Ray
() (Ray Physicist, popular music pianist) (Jamie Foxx)

The Pianist
() (Wladyslaw Szpilman, Judaic musician) (Adrien Brody)

The Elephant Man
() (Dr.

Frederick Treves, Bathroom Merrick) (Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt)

Silkwood
() (Karen Silkwood, employee in thermonuclear facility) (Meryl Streep)

Young Prominent. Lincoln
() (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president) (Henry Fonda)

The Diary fend for Anne Frank
() (Anne Frank, Human girl hiding from nazis) (Millie Perkins)

Gorillas in the Mist
() (Dian Fossey, anthropologist) (Sigourney Weaver)

A Man For All Seasons
() (Sir Thomas More, English statesman) (Paul Scofield)

Butch Cassidy person in charge the Sundance Kid
() (Butch Cassidy, Sundance) (Paul Newman, Robert Redford)

Lenny
() (Lenny Bruce, s comic) (Dustin Hoffman)

Finding Neverland
() (James Barrie, author of Peter Pan) (Johnny Depp)

Good Night sit Good Luck
() (Edward R.

Murrow, broadcast journalist) (David Strathairn)

Shine
() (David Helfgott, pianist) (Geoffrey Rush)

Yankee Doodle Dandy
() (George Mixture. Cohan, composer, playwright, actor) (James Cagney)

Mask
() (Rocky Dennis, year-old with facial skull deformity) (Eric Stoltz)

The Hurricane
() (Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, wrongly imprisoned boxer) (Denzel Washington)

Madame Curie
() (Marie Ci, discovers radium) (Greer Garson)

Cleopatra
() (Cleopatra VII, Egyptian queen) (Elizabeth Taylor)

Ed Wood
() (Ed Woodland out of the woo, Film director) (Johnny Depp)

Chaplin
() (Charles Chaplin, silent movie comic) (Robert Downey Jr.)

Bird
() (Charlie 'Bird' Parker, jazz musician) (Forest Whitaker)

What's Love Got To Requirement With It
() (Tina Turner, Denizen singer) (Angela Bassett)

Cinderella Man
() (James Braddock, s boxer) (Russell Crowe)

Walk The Line
() (Johnny Cash, Country music singer) (Joaquin Phoenix)

The Aviator
() (Howard Aeronaut, director and aviator) (Leonardo DiCaprio)

Pollock
() (Jackson Pollock, American painter) (Ed Harris)

The Buddy Songster Story
() (Buddy Holly, rock 'n' roll star) (Gary Busey)

Viva Zapata!
() (Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary) (Marlon Brando)

Joan of Arc
() (Joan remove Arc, French martyr) (Ingrid Bergman)

Sully
() (US Airways Capt.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) (Tom Hanks)

Picture Doors
() (Jim Morrison, lead chanteuse of The Doors) (Val Kilmer)

Jim Thorpe: All American
() (Jim Thorpe, football player) (Burt Lancaster)

Monster
() (Aileen Wuornos, prostitute/serial killer) (Charlize Theron)

Kundun
() (Dalai Lama) (Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong)

Frida
() (Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist) (Salma Hayek)

Brian's Song
() (Brian Piccolo, interest player) (James Caan)

The Model Game
() (Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing) (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Ali
() (Muhammad Prizefighter, boxer) (Will Smith)

Papillon
() (Henri 'Papillon' Charriere) (Steve McQueen)

Refrigerate Bamba
() (Ritchie Valens, rock 'n' roll star) (Lou Diamond Phillips)

The Life of Emile Zola
() (Emile Zola, French writer) (Paul Muni)

12 Years a Slave
() (Solomon Northup, kidnapped and advertise into slavery) (Chiwetel Ejiofor)

Eccentric Rhapsody
() (Freddie Mercury, Lead chorister of the British rock crowd "Queen") (Rami Malek)

Ferrari
() (Enzo Ferrari' Motorcar racer and entrepreneur) (Adam Driver)

Sid & Nancy
() (Sid Vicious, Limp-wristed Spungen) (Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb)

Basquiat
() (Jean Michel Basquia, road artist) (Jeffrey Wright)

The King's Speech
() (Prince Albert of England) (Colin Firth)

Nixon
() (Richard Milhous Nixon, U.S.

president) (Anthony Hopkins)

Nicholas and Alexandra
() (Tsar Bishop II, Emp. Alexandra) (Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman)

Lincoln
() (President Patriarch Lincoln) (Daniel Day-Lewis)

Man meeting the Moon
() (Andy Kaufman, artistic comedian) (Jim Carrey)

Quills
() (The Marquis de Sade) (Geoffrey Rush)

Erin Brockovich
() (Erin Brockovich, lawful assistant) (Julia Roberts)

Mandela: Extended Walk to Freedom
() (Nelson Mandela) (Idris Elba)

Elizabeth
() (Elizabeth Uncontrolled of England)(Cate Blanchett)

The Understanding of Everything
() (Stephen Hawking, physicist) (Eddie Redmayne)

Lean On Me
() (Joe Clark, dedicated high grammar disciplinarian) (Morgan Freeman)

Reds
() (John Reed, American journalist) (Warren Beatty)

Surviving Picasso
() (Pablo Picasso, Country painter) (Anthony Hopkins)

Anastasia
() (Anna Koreff, Anastasia imposter) (Ingrid Bergman)

Hoffa
() (James R.

'Jimmy' Hoffa, union leader) (Jack Nicholson)

Alexander
() (Alexander the Great, King rule Macedonia) (Connor Paolo)

The Hidden Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
() (Elizabeth I, Earl of Essex) (Bette Davis, Errol Flynn)

Inhabitant Sniper
() (U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle) (Bradley Cooper)

Sybil
() (Shirley Ardell Mason, multiple personality disturbance patient) (Sally Field)

The Collective Network
() (Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) (Jesse Eisenberg)

Birdman of Alcatraz
() (Robert Stroud, convicted murderer) (Burt Lancaster)

Lady Sings the Blues
() (Billie Holiday, Jazz singer) (Diana Ross)

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Mad Accuse
() (Alfred Dreyfus, French legions captain) (José Ferrer)

Disraeli
() (Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Immense Britain) (George Arliss)

First Man
() (Neil Armstrong, first man bordering walk on the Moon) (Ryan Gosling)

Elvis
() (Elvis Presley the Brief of Rock 'n' Roll) (Austin Butler)

Reworked copy of Kings
() (Jesus) (Jeffrey Hunter)

Kinsey
() (Alfred Kinsey) (Liam Neeson)

Bugsy
() (Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster) (Warren Beatty)

Milk
() (Harvey Draw off, California's first openly gay first-rate official) (Sean Penn)

Emily
() (Emily Brontë English novelist and poet) (Emma Mackey)

Hours
() (Aron Ralston, Pike climber survival) (James Franco)

Formerly Night Falls
() (Reinaldo Arenas, State poet) (Javier Bardem)

People vs.

Larry Flynt
() (Larry Flynt, publisher) (Woody Harrelson)

Steve Jobs
() (Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs) (Michael Fassbender)

Respect
() (Aretha Franklin, soul singer) (Jennifer Hudson)

Boys Don't Cry
() (Teena Brandon, transgendered teen) (Hilary Swank)

Henry & June
() (Henry Miller, June Miller) (Fred Grave, Uma Thurman)

Casanova
() (Giacomo Gay dog, Venetian writer, womanizer) (Heath Ledger)

Bound for Glory
() (Woody Songster, folk singer) (David Carradine)

Sway Cid
() ("El Cid", Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, Spanish hero) (Charlton Heston)

Lion
() (Sheru Munshi Caravansary, Lost Indian boy finding people after 25 years) (Dev Patel)

The Spirit of St.

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