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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
2014 · Movie · Hebrew · 1h 55mBiography · Drama
After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
Prime Video - #2684
The Bohemian
2022 · Movie · Czech · 2h 10mBiography · Drama · History
Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Josef gets an incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Ca...
Prime Video - #3284
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Movie · 2h 12mBiography · Musical
Songwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.
Prime Video - #5181
Girl You Know It's True
2023 · Movie · German · 2h 4mBiography · Drama
Dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's as Milli Vanilli. The duo never sang a word in their songs nor their debut album and, when the truth was finally revealed, they started one of the biggest scandals i...
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The Whole Wide World
1996 · Movie · 1h 51mBiography · Drama · Romance
In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.
Prime Video - #6778
The King's Choice
2016 · Movie · Norwegian · 2h 13mBiography · Drama · History
April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the ...
Prime Video - #6878
The Apprentice
2024 · Movie · 2h 2mBiography · Drama · History
A young man took over his father's real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York, and got the helping hand of an infamous closeted gay lawyer who helped him turn this young man into a notorious legend. Based on true events.
Prime Video - #6978
Moon Manor
2022 · Movie · 1h 43mBiography · Comedy · Drama
Jimmy throws himself a fabulous FUNeral before his curated death, proving the art of living is the art of dying. A comedy with a star-studded cast and the debut feature from female filmmakers KnifeRock. Score by The Dream Team (Co...
Prime Video - #8375
The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Movie · 2h 4mBiography · Drama · History
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Chest...
Prime Video - #8675
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2018 · Movie · 1h 54mBiography · Comedy · Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Prime Video - #10373
The Last Rifleman
2023 · Movie · 1h 35mBiography · Drama · War
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
Prime Video - #10872
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
2021 · Movie · 1h 13mBiography · Drama · History
Spanning C.S. Lewis' bitter childhood, WWI and his life-changing friendships at Oxford, The Most Reluctant Convert depicts the events that shaped Lewis' early life and journey from hard-boiled atheism to prolific Christianity.
Prime Video - #12571

Chervonyi
2017 · Movie · Ukrainian · 1h 50mBiography · Drama · History
In 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison conditions, as well as the persecution of crimi...
Prime Video - #12671

Adidas Vs. Puma: The Brother's Feud
2016 · Movie · German · 1h 55mBiography · Drama · History
In the 1920s the two brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler start manufacturing sport shoes. Adolf is a talented craftsman and his dream is that one day all the best sportsmen in the world will wear his shoes. Rudolf on the other hand ...
Prime Video - #12971
Sarah's Oil
2025 · Movie · 1h 43mBiography · Drama · History
The remarkable true story of eleven year old Sarah Rector, an African American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believes there is oil beneath the barren land she's allotted and whose faith is proven r...
Prime Video - #13171
Lonesome Soldier
2023 · Movie · 1h 49mBiography · Drama · Thriller
Based on a True American Story, Lonesome Soldier follows the life of Jackson Harlow, from young dreamer to haunted war veteran in this harrowing portrayal of PTS(D) and the effects it has, not only on Soldiers, but also their love...
Prime Video - #13271
Renoir
2012 · Movie · French · 1h 51mBiography · Drama · History
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenate...
Prime Video - #13371
The Railway Man
2013 · Movie · 1h 56mBiography · Drama · Romance
A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
Prime Video - #13471
Quisling: The Final Days
2024 · Movie · Norwegian · 2h 26mBiography · Drama · History
Five years of occupation during WW2 ends in Norway. Vidkun Quisling is in prison for treason and is to be held accountable for his actions. Can a priest help him find peace of mind? Can the traitor with big thoughts about himself ...
Prime Video - #13771
When the Moon Was Full
2019 · Movie · Persian · 2h 11mBiography · Crime · Drama
In the market Abdolhamid meets Faezeh and falls in love with her. They get marry and begin their life. But after a while Faezeh becomes aware of Abdolhamid's family in Sistan and Baluchestan province and that they are doing illega...
Prime Video - #14170

Mother Teresa of Calcutta
2003 · Movie · 1h 50mBiography · Drama
Mother Teresa's life is portrayed from the beginning of her ministry to her death. She seeks to serve the poor by creating a new "congregation" in the Church, establishing refuges for the dying and orphaned, and providing some com...
Prime Video - #14670
The Terrible
2020– · Series · Russian · 1 seasonBiography · Drama · History
An introspective look at Ivan IV's tumultuous reign as he chronicled his life's journey from a promising ruler to the notorious exploring the complex layers of his psyche that shaped the course of Russian history.
Prime Video - #14770
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989– · Series · 1 seasonBiography · Comedy · Drama
The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin, is portrayed. The innately talented young Charlie must overcome a wayward life of poverty and familial chaos to reach the pinnacle of...
Prime Video - #15070
Simone: Woman of the Century
2022 · Movie · French · 2h 20mBiography · Drama · History
Explores the life of Simone Veil -- the famous French figure who survived the Holocaust and went on to become a leading politician, human rights campaigner, and feminist -- through a series of non-chronological memories
Prime Video - #15370
Raising the Bar: The Alma Richards Story
2025 · Movie · 1h 43mBiography · History
In 1908, Alma Richards, an eighth-grader, quits school to work as a ranch hand. A chance meeting with a professor motivates him to resume his education, leading him to compete in high jump at the Stockholm Olympics and win a gold ...
Prime Video - #15770
Hawke: The Larrikin and The Leader
2018– · SeriesBiography
Australians have never been so wary of politicians. But there was a time when things were different. From the moment Bob Hawke blazed onto the national stage, he was the rock god of Australian politics. So what made this flawed ma...
Prime Video - #16070
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story
1995 · Movie · 2hBiography · Drama
This highly-rated television film covers the life of American movie/TV/pop music idol Annette Funicello. The movie starts with the move of her family from New York to California, where in 1955 shy Annette becomes one of the cast o...
Prime Video - #16669
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
2021 · Movie · 1h 55mBiography · Comedy · Drama
Jamie New is a 16-year-old who doesn't quite fit in. Instead of pursuing a traditional career, he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Supported by his mother and friends, Jamie overcomes discrimination and bullying to step into the s...
Prime Video - #16869
Margrete: Queen of the North
2021 · Movie · Danish · 2hBiography · Drama · History
1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: the Kalmar Union.
Prime Video - #17269
The Music of Silence
2017 · Movie · Italian · 1h 55mBiography · Drama
Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.
Prime Video - #17769
The Jesse Owens Story
1984 · Movie · 2h 54mBiography · Drama · History
1 EmmyThis is the compelling story of Jesse Owens, a man who overcame racial barriers to become one of history's greatest Olympic athletes by disproving Adolf Hitler's theory of Aryan athletic superiority through his success in track an...
Prime Video - #18169
A Prominent Patient
2017 · Movie · Czech · 1h 54mBiography · Drama · History
A period in the life of diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, who was the son of Czechoslovakia's founder, served as the Central-European country's minister of foreign affairs and has been brutally killed by Russian secret service ...
Prime Video - #18369
Gleason
2002 · Movie · 1h 40mBiography · Drama · Family
The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in...
Prime Video - #18668

Cross Creek
1983 · Movie · 2h 7mBiography · Drama · Romance
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American li...
Prime Video - #18768

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
2005 · Movie · 2hBiography · Drama
Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high schools to help the children of incarcerated parents regain control of their own ...
Prime Video - #19268
Gracie!
2009 · Movie · 1h 17mBiography · Comedy · Drama
In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for t...
Prime Video - #19868
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 13mBiography · Drama · History
Dramatized telling of the story of Katsushika Oei, daughter of the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). A great artist in her own right, but never satisfied with her own skills, she nurses her father after a strok...
Prime Video - #20267
Walter's War
2008 · Movie · 1hBiography · Drama · War
The substantially true story of Walter Tull, a black man whose grandfather was a slave but who was born in Folkestone, Kent, in England, and who, in the years prior to the First World War, was a professional football player for To...
Prime Video - #21667
Xuan Zang
2016 · Movie · Mandarin · 1h 30mBiography · History
During the Tang Dynasty's during the era of "Zhen Guan" (era name during rule of Emperor Taizong), the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils a...
Prime Video - #21867
The Last Days of Patton
1986 · Movie · 2h 26mBiography · Drama
1 EmmyJuly 1945. The war in Europe is over and General George S Patton is now military governor of Bavaria. True to form he doesn't always see eye-to-eye with his superiors and is prone to making comments that they don't approve of.
Prime Video - #22067
The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
2021 · Movie · Russian · 1h 45mBiography · Drama · History
During a mission in WWII, the plane of Nikolai Komlev is shot down. He manages to bring his plane down in a remote forest clearing, but far from friendly territory, he faces a relentless test of physical and mental endurance.
Prime Video - #22567
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005 · Movie · 1h 30mBiography · Drama
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes books. The film shows us how Doyle came up with the idea of the 'super detective' and how he uses the techniques of his mentor Joseph Bell in his books. After his ...
Prime Video - #23166
A Sunday Horse
2016 · Movie · 1h 48mBiography · Family · Documentary
After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.
Prime Video - #23566
The Spy
2019 · Movie · Norwegian · 1h 50mBiography · Drama · History
Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War II breaks out, rapidly getting attention from German officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.
Prime Video - #23866
Lansky
2021 · Movie · 1h 59mBiography · Crime · Drama
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated by the Feds, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster reveals the untold truth about his life as the boss of the National Crime Syndi...
Prime Video - #23966
Priest of Love
1981 · Movie · 2h 5mBiography · Drama · Romance
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then ...
Prime Video - #24066

Memories of Anne Frank
2010 · Movie · Italian · 1h 40mBiography · Drama · History
Freely inspired by Alison Leslie Gold's "Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend," the film tells of Anne Frank and her friend, Hanneli Goslar, their first meeting in Amsterdam, their daily lives, the German occu...
Prime Video - #24365
The Wolf at the Door
1986 · Movie · Danish · 1h 30mBiography · Drama
This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
Prime Video - #24465
Congo
2018 · Movie · Norwegian · 2h 2mBiography · Crime · Drama
In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic ...
Prime Video - #24665
Mafia Millionaires
2014 · Movie · Italian · 1h 40mBiography · Crime · Drama
The rise and fall of a Camorra clan in Naples, told through the eyes of a crime boss and his family. Thirty years of a man's life, thirty years in the history of one of the most beautiful and controversial cities on Earth: Naples.
Prime Video - #25065
The Program
2015 · Movie · 1h 44mBiography · Drama · Sport
An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Prime Video - #25465
Joseph and His Brethren
1961 · Movie · Italian · 1h 43mBiography · Drama · Family
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.
Prime Video - #25864
Maradona, the Hand of God
2007 · Movie · Italian · 1h 50mBiography · Drama · Sport
The life of the former football player Diego Armando Maradona is recreated in this film, from his childhood up to his first heart attack and his firm decision of recovering himself, passing through his stage of largest football gl...
Prime Video - #26264
Romulus, My Father
2007 · Movie · 1h 44mBiography · Drama
It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond betwe...
Prime Video - #26763
Evel Knievel
2004 · Movie · 1h 31mBiography · Drama · Romance
Since childhood, orphan Bobby "Evel" Knievel never could resist risks or keep out of trouble. He's determined to leave the mining town of Butte, willing to try any job or scam. Linda Bork agrees to join his adventurous life. Slowl...
Prime Video - #27862
The Shamrock Spitfire
2024 · Movie · 1h 48mBiography · Drama · War
The story of Irish fighter pilot Brendan "Paddy" Finucane, who at the age of just 21, became the youngest ever Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force, and one of its greatest and most celebrated fighter aces during World War Two.
Prime Video - #28162
The Tender Bar
2021 · Movie · 1h 46mBiography · Drama · Romance
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
Prime Video - #28461

Frank and Ava
2020 · Movie · 1h 50mBiography · Drama · History
Before he was chairman of the board. He was just a man, desperate for a woman, clinging to a dream. The story of Sinatra as never told before and Ava Gardner, the woman who saved him, by breaking him. Based on true stories.
Prime Video - #28661
Adventures of a Mathematician
2021 · Movie · 1h 42mBiography · Drama
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first comp...
Prime Video - #29360
Jeanne du Barry
2023 · Movie · French · 1h 57mBiography · Drama · History
Jeanne Vaubernier, a young working-class woman hungry for culture and pleasure, uses her intelligence and allure to climb the rungs of the social ladder one by one until she meets and begins a scandalous relationship with King Lou...
Prime Video - #29460

Everyman's War
2009 · Movie · 1h 44mBiography · Drama · War
A battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend a small German town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war, against the assault of the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer Ghost division.
Prime Video - #29859
Eiffel
2021 · Movie · French · 1h 48mBiography · Drama · History
The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun'...
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