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Remember the Titans (2000)

Summary: The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Release Date: September 29, 2000

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Director: Boaz Yakin

Writer: Gregory Allen Howard

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Run It Up Productions Inc., Technical Black, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney Channel, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,719,751

International: $ 21,051,932

The Pianist (2002)

Summary: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Release Date: March 28, 2003

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music

Director: Roman Polanski

Writers: Ronald Harwood

, Wladyslaw Szpilman

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, StudioCanal, Bac Films, Canal+ Polska, Telewizja Polska (TVP), Agencja Produkcji Filmowej, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Beverly Detroit, Interscope Communications, Mainstream S.A.

Distributor: Shout Select, Universal Studios Home Video

Countries: France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,572,577

International: $ 87,500,000

War Dogs (2016)

Summary: Loosely based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a three hundred million dollar contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

Release Date: August 19, 2016

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Crime

Director: Todd Phillips

Writers: Stephen Chin

, Todd Phillips

, Jason Smilovic

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: BZ Entertainment, Green Hat Films, Icon Films, Joint Effort, The Mark Gordon Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max

Countries: United States, Romania

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 43,034,523

International: $ 43,200,000

Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023)

Summary: At the end of a 60-year career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large, history-making life, and the personal struggles she's kept private.

Release Date: November 03, 2023

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Music

Directors: Miri Navasky

, Maeve O'Boyle

, Karen O'Connor

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 648,299

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

Summary: A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Release Date: September 25, 2008

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime

Director: Uli Edel

Writers: Bernd Eichinger

, Uli Edel

, Stefan Aust

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Constantin Film, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), G.T. Film Production, Dune Films

Distributor: Vitagraph Films, MPI Home Video

Countries: Germany, France, Czechia, Czech Republic

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 476,270

International: $ 26,461,085

Schindler's List (1993)

Summary: In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Release Date: February 04, 1994

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Thomas Keneally

, Steven Zaillian

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: MCA/Universal Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 96,898,818

International: $ 225,262,427

Shirley (2020)

Summary: A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Release Date: June 05, 2020

Genres: Biography, Drama, Mystery

Director: Josephine Decker

Writers: Sarah Gubbins

, Susan Scarf Merrell

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Los Angeles Media Fund (LAMF), Killer Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Munich: The Edge of War (2021)

Summary: A British diplomat travels to Munich in the run-up to World War II, where a former classmate of his from Oxford is also en route, but is working for the German government.

Release Date: January 21, 2022

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Christian Schwochow

Writers: Robert Harris

, Ben Power

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Turbine Studios, Netflix

Distributor: Netflix

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History (2018)

Summary: A documentary series about Sonichu creator and internet sensation, Christian Weston Chandler.

Release Date: February 11, 2018

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Runtime: 0 h 42 min

Country: Ireland

Language: English

Oppenheimer (2023)

Summary: The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Release Date: July 21, 2023

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writers: Christopher Nolan

, Kai Bird

, Martin Sherwin

Runtime: 3 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Atlas Entertainment, Syncopy, Syncopy, Gadget Films

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 326,974,650

International: $ 625,934,000

Snowden (2016)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: September 16, 2016

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Oliver Stone

Writers: Kieran Fitzgerald

, Oliver Stone

, Luke Harding

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: Endgame Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment, KrautPack Entertainment, Sacha Inc.

Distributor: Open Road Films (II), KVH Media Group

Countries: United States, Germany, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,587,519

International: $ 15,769,697

Fire in the Sky (1993)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: March 12, 1993

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Robert Lieberman

Writers: Travis Walton

, Tracy Tormé

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Fox Network, Paramount Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,885,552

Capote (2005)

Summary: In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on ...

Release Date: February 03, 2006

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama

Director: Bennett Miller

Writers: Dan Futterman

, Gerald Clarke

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: United Artists, Sony Pictures Classics, A-Line Pictures, Eagle Vision, Capote Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, United Artists, The CW Network (The CW)

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,750,530

International: $ 20,576,875

The Big Short (2015)

Summary: In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.

Release Date: December 23, 2015

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Director: Adam McKay

Writers: Charles Randolph

, Adam McKay

, Michael Lewis

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, New Regency Productions, Plan B Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,259,870

International: $ 63,181,000

Hidden Figures (2016)

Summary: The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Release Date: January 06, 2017

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Theodore Melfi

Writers: Allison Schroeder

, Theodore Melfi

, Margot Lee Shetterly

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, Levantine Films

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 169,607,287

International: $ 66,349,611