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Showing 89 Films sorted by Genre: 'Biography'
12 Mighty Orphans
12 Mighty Orphans tells the true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great D...
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38 at the Garden
In a hostile time for Asian Americans, the revisiting of an unlikely athlete's story 10 years later gives hope and shatters ste...
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A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his...
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A Discussion and World Premiere of Mother Country Radicals (with Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, and Zayd Dohrn)
Join us for an engaging exploration of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s Mother Country Radicals, an original podcast from Crooked Media and A...
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Adult Ed.
A disgraced former teacher (Matt Dellapina) starts tutoring fellow failures around New York City while coming to grips with the...
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A Kid From Coney Island
From the streets of Coney Island to the NBA, the story of basketball star Stephon Marbury reveals that often life is about the ...
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Another Country
Based on Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey, Another Country tells the story of an interracial couple raising their mixed race c...
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Ashe '68
Arthur Ashe emerged as an elite athlete who parlayed his fame as the first black man to win the US Open tennis championship int...
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Banksy Most Wanted
Banksy is a household name, but behind this name hides a multitude of stories, artworks, stunts, political statements and ident...
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Beba
Beba is a poetic, raw, and ruthless coming of age tale, in which a young Afro-Latina from New York City stares down historical,...
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Before Night Falls
Before Night Falls is an episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his child...
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Being BeBe
In 2009, Bebe Zahara Benet was crowned the first winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. But the franchise hadn't yet achieved notoriety...
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Bernstein's Wall
An enlightening, complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music whose passion and creativity guide...
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Biography: KISStory
After 50 years, the No. 1 Gold Record-selling band of all time, KISS, is sharing their story of success in this definitive docu...
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BITCHIN’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James
This incredibly entertaining profile of legendary funk/R&B icon Rick James captures the peaks and valleys of his storied ca...
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Bobbie Blood
Bobbie Blood is a short documentary series shot on 16mm film chronicling the love life of a newlywed octogenarian couple and th...
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Breonna's Garden
She who plants a garden plants hope. Breonna's Garden is an AR experience created in collaboration with Ju’Niyah Palmer to hono...
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Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
The Beach Boys’ lead songwriter takes a drive around Los Angeles with Rolling Stone editor and longtime friend Jason Fine in th...
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Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
A music-filled profile of guitar legend Buddy Guy, whose unique, intense style, forged from years of gigging in Chicago clubs, ...
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Charlie Says
Charlie Says, directed by masterful filmmaker Mary Harron, tells the Charles Manson (Matt Smith) story through the fresh eyes o...
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Chop & Steele
For years, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher toured as the Found Footage Festival, with a sideline in absurdist morning-show pr...
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Circus of Books
How do you explain to your friends that your mom and pop run a gay pornography shop? That is just one question asked in this pl...
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ClayDream
This warm-hearted portrait of the charismatic pioneer and “Father of Claymation” Will Vinton, follows the rise and fall of his ...
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Coded
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ+ advert...
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Creation Stories
Creation Stories charts the dazed, confused and drug-fueled life of music mogul Alan McGee, whose label Creation Records cataly...
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