Documentaries : Biography

Freddie Mercury the Untold Story: This is the first major documentary profiling the life of Freddie Mercury outside the world of Queen. It tells the story of Freddie's life, and recreates his early life in Zanzibar and India, his early days in England, his life in Queen, his solo projects and collab...

Derren Brown The Gathering: As part of the show Brown recalled streets, page numbers and grid references from the Greater London A-Z map. Pseudo-psychic "mind reading" and "remote viewing" activities were also recreated....

Legendary martial artist Bruce Lee is the subject of this thoughtful documentary by Lee aficionado John Little. Using interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and action sequences from Lee's last (unfinished) film, Game of Death, Little paints a textured, complex portrait of the world's most famous act...

Mark Oliver Everett, singer of the band EELS, on his quest to get to know his later father, quantum physicist Hugh Everett III, who invented the Many Worlds theory. The film follows Mark on his journey across America, where he meets old friends and colleagues of his father. Hugh died of a heart atta...

Tom Schiller’s 1975 short documentary (35mins) follows Miller from the microcosmos of his very own shit-hole to a mock-up 1890s New York of his childhood -- or "that old shit-hole, New York’" (in fact the set for Hello Dolly, with Barbra Streisand & Walter Matthau, 1969). Schil...

A documentary feature about the life of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo...

A two part documentary about manic depression also known as Bi-PolarTriggersStephen Fry explores the world of manic depression a mental illness which affects up to 4 million people in the UK including himself.He sets out to uncover more about a misunderstood condition which drives those who have it ...

A humorous take on a story from Maurice's childhood, with Spike Jonze and Catherine Keener Q&A with Spike Jonze and Maurice Sendak at The Museum of Modern Art....

Documentary following writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith on the trail of Vladimir Nabokov the man behind the controversial novel Lolita. The journey takes him from the shores of Lake Geneva to Nabokovs childhood haunts in the Russian countryside near St Petersburg to the New York streets and a roa...

Archival race footage, outtakes, home videos and interviews Dale Earnhardt's friends, family, and competitors are used in this documentary on the racing legend who won seven NASCAR championships before his death in 2001 at the Daytona 500....