Category Archives: Biography
Christine
Release 2016
Genre Biography, Drama, Horror
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Director: Antonio Campos
Writers: Craig Shilowich
Stars: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia, J. Smith-Cameron
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4666726/
The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Queen of Katwe
Release 2016
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Director: Mira Nair
Writers: William Wheeler, Tim Crothers
Stars: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Kabanza, Taryn Kyaze
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4341582/
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Greater
Release 2016
Genre Biography, Family, Sport
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Director: David Hunt
Writers: Brian Reindl, David Hunt
Stars: Christopher Severio, Neal McDonough, Leslie Easterbrook, Michael Parks, Nick Searcy
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2950418/
The story of Brandon Burlsworth, possibly the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.
The Birth of a Nation
Release 2016
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Director: Nate Parker
Writers: Nate Parker, Jean McGianni Celestin
Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196450/
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Barry
Release 2016
Genre Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
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Director: Vikram Gandhi
Writers: Adam Mansbach
Stars: Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Mitchell, Ellar Coltrane, Jenna Elfman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5477566/
A look into the early life of U.S. President Barack "Barry" Obama
Denial
Release 2016
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Director: Mick Jackson
Writers: David Hare, Deborah Lipstadt
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4645330/
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Southside with You
Release 2016
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Taylar Fondren
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4258698/
The film chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America Barack Obama wooed his future First Lady Michelle Obama on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Loving
Release 2016
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Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, Terri Abney
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4669986/
Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married.
Snowden
Release 2016
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Anatoly Kucherena, Luke Harding
Stars: Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jaymes Butler, Robert Firth
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774114/
The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
Sully
Release 2016
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Todd Komarnicki, Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Mike O'Malley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263904/
The story of Chesley Sullenberger, an American pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew.