Biography Documentaries
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Ted Bundy: Biography
Ted Bundy was born November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. In the 1970s, he raped and murdered young women in several states. He was connected to at least 36 murders, but some thought he had committed one hundred or more. He was executed in Florida’s electric chair in 1989. His charm and intelligence made him [...]
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Steve Jobs: One Last Thing
Few men have changed our everyday world of work leisure and human communication in the way that Apple founder Steve Jobs has done. This documentary looks not only at how his talent his style and his imagination have shaped all of our lives but also at the influences that shaped and moulded the man himself.
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Steve Jobs – Billion Dollar Hippy
Steve Jobs Biography: Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite ambition, and an inspirational perfectionist with a bully’s temper. A [...]
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Derren Brown – Behind the Mischief
Airing as part of a Derren Brown Night, this one-hour special celebrates the remarkable Derren Brown and his 10 years of Channel 4 television series, specials and events. Unprecedented access is given for the first time ever as Derren allows TV cameras behind the scenes and into his private life to meet his family, friends [...]
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Mahatma: Life of Gandhi
This is a 5 hrs. 10 min. documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi – Note: Here are only 30 minutes presented. For full movie, see below – All events and principles of Gandhi’s life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values. The purpose of the film [...]
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The Best Mind Since Einstein – Richard Feynman
A profile of the late Richard Feynman – atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who helped solve the mystery of the space shuttle Challenger explosion.
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Wiki Rebels
It’s definitely a new paradigm when a small private activist group has the capacity to provide free access to the inner workings of companies and governments. Pushing First Amendment rights and freedom of the press to their limits is what Wikileaks is all about. In Wiki Rebels: The Documentary we learn more about Julian Assange, [...]
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Herman Goering – Ambition without Conscience
The name of Hermann Goering is one of infamy. This documentary tells his story. The son of an aristocratic family, Goering, the World War I fighter pilot ace, became Hitler’s right-hand man. The doors opened by Goering’s high-level contacts made possible Hitler’s ascent to power. In gratitude, Hitler made Goering chief of the Luftwaffe, Prime [...]
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The Choice
FRONTLINE’s critically acclaimed series “The Choice” returns this election season to examine the rich personal and political biographies of John McCain and Barack Obama in “The Choice 2008.” The film draws on in-depth interviews with the advisers, friends and those closest to the candidates, as well as with seasoned observers of American politics, who together [...]
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Scientology: Secret Lives – L. Ron Hubbard
An intriguing, but bizarre, biographical documentary by Channel 4 on the ‘Secret Life’ of L Ron Hubbard – the Sci Fi author and creator of the Scientology cult. This biopic from 1997, with some fantastic archive interviews with the man (and other people from the ‘org’ who knew him) – is an interesting look at [...]
