Biographical Documentary Movies

In a career spanning more than half a century, Bernard Blier has shot more than 180 films. He alone represents a history of French cinema without havi...

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem by Louis Les yeux d'Elsa.

Documentary on the idiosyncratic, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes utilizes rare archive footage and interviews with associates to shed light on th...

A young man on the cusp of turning thirty sets out to find a relic from his childhood that had a hand in inspiring his obsessive imagination.

The father through the eye of the son, the painter through the eye of the filmmaker. Started at random 10 years ago, the picture rewrites in a very su...

A music student talks about the struggles of being a young independent person in a big city, and how he uses music as a cope mechanism.

An atypical portrait of singer, songwriter, poet Georges Brassens.

Kancha Sherpa was one of 103 Sherpas that brought Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the top of Mt. Everest in 1953, as the first to reach the t...

I had heard of a Chilean painter, author of a thousand paintings, who had disappeared long ago. I had been given an address on the banks of the Loire,...