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Nixon (film)
Nixon is a 1995 American biographical drama directed by Oliver Stone, starring Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon, which follows the president from his California youth to his resignation over Watergate.
One Life (2023 film)
One Life (2023) is James Hawes's British biographical drama, also called One Life - Wer ein Leben rettet, rettet die ganze Welt, starring Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Nicholas Winton, who rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Prague.
Parkland (film)
Parkland (2013) is a historical drama directed by Peter Landesman, based on Vincent Bugliosi's Four Days in November, produced by Tom Hanks, depicting the JFK assassination aftermath at Parkland Hospital; Metascore 51, $10 million budget.
PM Narendra Modi
PM Narendra Modi (पी एम नरेंद्र मोदी) is a 2019 Hindi biographical drama starring Vivek Oberoi as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, directed by Omung Kumar. Barred by the Election Commission during the 2019 polls, released 24 May 2019, panned as a hagiography, grossing ₹11.51 crore.
Quezon (film)
Quezon is a 2025 Filipino historical biopic by Jerrold Tarog, starring Jericho Rosales as Manuel L. Quezon; the final TBA Studios Bayaniverse film, released October 15, 2025, about the 1935 Commonwealth election against Aguinaldo.
Reagan (2023 film)
Reagan (2023 film), released theatrically in 2024, is a Sean McNamara biographical drama starring Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan, narrated by a fictional KGB agent and based on Paul Kengor's The Crusader; it grossed $30 million on a $25 million budget with 17% critic and 98% audience scores.
Resistance (2020 film)
Resistance is a 2020 biographical drama, also released as Niezłomni, written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Jesse Eisenberg plays Marcel Marceau, the French Jewish Resistance member who saved orphaned children from Klaus Barbie's Nazis; mixed reviews, 58% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sardar Udham
Sardar Udham (सरदार उधम), 2021 Hindi biographical drama by Shoojit Sircar on revolutionary Udham Singh, who shot Michael O'Dwyer in 1940 to avenge Jallianwala Bagh; stars Vicky Kaushal, streamed on Prime Video, won the National Award for Best Hindi film.
Sergio (2020 film)
Sergio (2020 film), also known as Sergio: Netflix biographical drama, directed by Greg Barker, written by Craig Borten, starring Wagner Moura as UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello and Ana de Armas as Carolina Larriera; premiered at Sundance January 2020, streamed on Netflix April 17, 2020; 118 minutes, R-rated, 44% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Southside with You
Southside with You is Richard Tanne's 2016 romantic drama, also called Southside With You, dramatizing Barack and Michelle Obama's 1989 first date across Chicago's South Side, starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter, a Sundance 2016 premiere that grossed $6.3 million.
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (film)
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर), 2024 Hindi biographical drama on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, directed by and starring Randeep Hooda; released 22 March 2024, won Best Debut Director National Film Award, criticized as one-sided.
Thackeray (film)
Thackeray (ठाकरे), 2019 Indian Hindi-Marathi biographical drama on Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, directed by Abhijit Panse, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, released 25 January 2019.
The Accidental Prime Minister (film)
The Accidental Prime Minister (2019) is a Hindi political drama directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, adapted from Sanjaya Baru's memoir, starring Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh and Akshaye Khanna as Baru; released 11 January 2019, it was widely panned as propaganda.
The Front Runner (film)
The Front Runner is a 2018 biographical political drama directed by Jason Reitman, starring Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart, based on Matt Bai's book All the Truth Is Out, dramatizing Hart's 1987 campaign collapse over the Donna Rice affair.
The Iron Lady (film)
The Iron Lady is a 2011 British biographical drama directed by Phyllida Lloyd, starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, the only female British prime minister.
The Kennedys (miniseries)
The Kennedys (2011) is an eight-part US-Canadian miniseries starring Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, Barry Pepper, and Tom Wilkinson. Commissioned by History, dropped January 2011 amid reported Kennedy family pressure, it aired on ReelzChannel and won four Emmys from ten nominations.
The Last King of Scotland (film)
The Last King of Scotland (2006) is Kevin Macdonald's drama, adapted from Giles Foden's novel, in which fictional Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) becomes Idi Amin's (Forest Whitaker, Oscar-winning) personal physician.
The Legend of Bhagat Singh
The Legend of Bhagat Singh (द लीज़ेंड ऑफ़ भगत सिंह) is Rajkumar Santoshi's 2002 Hindi biopic starring Ajay Devgn as the revolutionary hanged in 1931; it clashed with 23rd March 1931 Shaheed, flopped commercially, but won two National Film Awards.
Vice (2018 film)
Vice is a 2018 American satirical biographical film written and directed by Adam McKay, dramatizing Dick Cheney's rise to vice president, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell.
Viva Zapata!
Viva Zapata! (1952) is Elia Kazan's biographical drama, written by John Steinbeck, starring Marlon Brando as Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata; Anthony Quinn won a supporting-actor Oscar, and the film is noted for historical liberties.
W. (film)
W., originally titled Bush, is a 2008 biographical drama directed by Oliver Stone. It portrays the life and presidency of the 43rd U.S. President, George W. Bush.
Wilson (1944 film)
Wilson (1944) is Darryl F. Zanuck's Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor biopic of Woodrow Wilson, directed by Henry King, starring Alexander Knox; it won 5 of 10 Oscars but flopped, earning $2 million on a $5.2 million budget.
Yatra (యాత్ర) (2019 film)
Yatra (యాత్ర) is a 2019 Telugu biographical drama by Mahi V Raghav on YS Rajasekhara Reddy's 2003 padayatra, starring Mammootty as YSR, released 8 February 2019 by 70MM Entertainments.
Yatra 2
Yatra 2 (యాత్ర 2), a 2024 Telugu political biographical drama by Mahi V Raghav, sequel to Yatra; Mammootty as YSR, Jiiva as YS Jagan Mohan Reddy; released February 8, 2024, covering 2009–2019.
Young Mr. Lincoln
Young Mr. Lincoln is John Ford's 1939 Twentieth Century-Fox biographical drama starring Henry Fonda as a young lawyer Abraham Lincoln, fictionalizing the 1858 Duff Armstrong almanac murder trial and later the subject of a landmark 1970 Cahiers du Cinéma analysis.
Young Stalin
Young Stalin is a 2007 biography of Joseph Stalin's early years by Simon Sebag Montefiore, adapted into a 2026 film directed by Géla Babluani starring Cosmo Jarvis, centered on the 1907 Tiflis Imperial Bank robbery before the Russian Revolution.
Young Winston
Young Winston is Richard Attenborough's 1972 biographical drama of Winston Churchill's early life, 1881-1901, written and produced by Carl Foreman from Churchill's memoir My Early Life, starring Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, and Anne Bancroft, a Columbia Pictures epic.