Category Archives: Biography
I'm Not Ashamed
Release 2016
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Director: Brian Baugh
Writers: Philipa A. Booyens, Robin Hanley, Kari Redmond, Bodie Thoene
Stars: Masey McLain, Ben Davies, Cameron McKendry, Terri Minton, Victoria Staley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4950110/
Based on the inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott - the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
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.