RKO 281 (1999)
Biography | Drama
Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider
Director: Benjamin Ross
Pelé (2021)
Biography | Documentary | Sport
Looks back at the extraordinary 12-year period in which Pelé, the only man to win three World Cup titles, went from young superstar in 1958 to national hero in 1970; a radical yet turbulent era in Brazil’s history.
Starring: Pelé
Director: Ben Nicholas, David Tryhorn
A Call to Spy (2019)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency – SOE – to recruit and train women as spies.
Starring: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland, Marc Rissmann
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
The Dig (2021)
Biography | Drama | History
An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, Monica Dolan
Director: Simon Stone
Seberg (2019)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Anthony Mackie
Director: Benedict Andrews
Ammonite (2020)
Biography | Drama | Romance
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle, Alec Secareanu, Fiona Shaw
Director: Francis Lee
Amazing Grace (2006)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N'Dour, Ciarán Hinds
Director: Michael Apted
Shirley (2020)
Biography | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Steve Vinovich, Ryan Spahn
Director: Josephine Decker
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Biography | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg
Director: Robert Lieberman
Tesla (2020)
Biography | Drama
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Josh Hamilton, Jim Gaffigan, Lucy Walters
Director: Michael Almereyda
The Queen (2006)
Biography | Drama | History
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam
Director: Stephen Frears
Radioactive (2019)
Biography | Drama | Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale, Jonathan Aris
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Safety (2020)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.
Starring: Jay Reeves, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Corinne Foxx, Luke Tennie, Matthew Glave
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Mank (2020)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Follows screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane.
Starring: Gary Oldman, Lily Collins, Amanda Seyfried, Tuppence Middleton, Charles Dance, Leven Rambin
Director: David Fincher
Cold Light of Day (1989)
Biography | Crime | Horror
Fictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
Starring: Bob Flag, Martin Byrne-Quinn, Geoffrey Greenhill, Mark Hawkins
Director: Fhiona-Louise
Young Winston (1972)
Biography | Drama | War
Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.
Starring: Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Richard Attenborough
42 / 42: The Jackie Robinson Story (2013)
Biography | Drama | Sport
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.
Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Merriman, Lucas Black
Director: Brian Helgeland
I Am Greta / Greta (2020)
Biography | Documentary
Documentary follows teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Starring: Greta Thunberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Malena Ernman, António Guterres, Svante Thunberg
Director: Nathan Grossman
Private Parts / Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star.
Starring: Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Mary McCormack, Fred Norris, Paul Giamatti, Carol Alt
Director: Betty Thomas
The Plainsman (1936)
Biography | History | Romance | War | Western
Wild Bill Hickok attempts to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
