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Historical biography movies

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List of biographical films

Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1906The Story of the Kelly GangNed KellyFrank Mills1909The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight SonataLudwig van BeethovenHarry BaurThe Life of MosesMosesPat HartiganEdgar Allen PoeEdgar Allan PoeHerbert YostSaul and DavidKing DavidMaurice CostelloKing SaulWilliam V. Ranous1910Pyotr VelikiyPeter the GreatPyotr Voinov1911Sweet Nell of Old DruryNell GwynNellie StewartCharles II of EnglandAugustus Neville1912Custer's Last FightGeorge Armstrong CusterFrancis FordCleopatraCleopatraHelen GardnerFrom the Manger to the CrossJesusRobert Henderson-Bland1913Adrienne LecouvreurAdrienne LecouvreurSarah BernhardtGiuseppe Verdi nella vita e nella gloriaGiuseppe VerdiEgisto Cecchi The Life and Works of Richard WagnerRichard WagnerGiuseppe BecceSixty Years a QueenQueen VictoriaBlanche Forsythe (younger)

Louie Henri (older)

1914Beating BackAl Jennings
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The 28 greatest biopics in cinema history

 

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12 Years a Slave (2013)

Francois Duhamel - © 2013 - Fox Searchlight Pictures

2013’s “12 Years a Slave” is the kind of film that couldn’t possibly fail. From its outstanding cast (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, and Brad Pitt) to its director (Steve McQueen) to its screenplay (by John Ridley) to its music (courtesy of Hans Zimmer), “12 Years a Slave” succeeded in every aspect and won three Oscars. Although the film isn't that old, it's based on a memoir of the same name that was written all the way back in 1853 by Solomon Northup.

 

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A Beautiful Mind (2001)

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Based on the life of Nobel Laureate John Nash and a 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar, “A Beautiful Mind” explores the battle that was fought within Nash’s own head, which pitted his brilliance against his paranoid-schizophrenic tendencies. The film starring Russell Crowe won Oscars for Best Pict

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Biographical film

Film genre

A biographical film or biopic ()[1] is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used.[2] They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.[3]

Context

Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck.[4] On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre[5] shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a similar trajectory as

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