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Contents
1 Before 1950
2 1950s
3 1960s
4 1970s
5 1980s
6 1990s
7 2000s
8 2010s
9 See also
10 References

Before 1950
Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or actress

1900

Jeanne d'Arc

Joan of Arc

Bleuette Bernon

1905

The Life of Charles Peace

Charles Peace

Walter Haggar

1906

The Story of the Kelly Gang

Ned Kelly

Frank Mills

1909

Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight


Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata

Harry Baur

1909

The Life of Moses

Moses

Pat Hartigan

1909

Saul and David

King David

Maurice Costello

King Saul

William V. Ranous

1910

Pyotr Velikiy

Peter the Great

Pyotr Voinov

1911

Sweet Nell of Old Drury

Nell Gwyn

Nellie Stewart

Charles II of England

Augustus Neville

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1912

Custer's Last Fight

George Armstrong Custer

Francis Ford

1912

From the Manger to the Cross

Jesus

Robert Henderson-Bland

1913

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Sarah Bernhardt

1913

Beating Back

Al Jennings

Al Jennings

1913

The Life and Works of Richard


Wagner

Richard Wagner

Giuseppe Becce

1913

Sixty Years a Queen

Queen Victoria

Louie Henri

1914

Home, Sweet Home

John Howard Payne

Henry B. Walthall

1914

Judith of Bethulia

Judith

Blanche Sweet

1914

The Life of General Villa

Pancho Villa

Raoul Walsh

1915

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Elisabeth Risdon

1915

Mistress Nell

Nell Gwyn

Mary Pickford

1915

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry B. Walthall

1916

David Garrick

David Garrick

Dustin Farnum

1916

Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett

Dustin Farnum

1916

Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

Dennis Eadie

1916

Joan the Woman

Joan of Arc

Geraldine Farrar

1917

Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross

Alice Brady

1917

Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII

Theda Bara

1917

The conqueror

Sam Houston

William Farnum

1917

The Fall of the Romanovs

Nicholas II of Russia

Alfred Hickman

Alexandra Feodorovna

Nance O'Neil

1917

The Lincoln Cycle

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Chapin

1917

My Father

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Chapin

1917

My Mother

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Chapin

1917

Myself

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Chapin

1917

Rasputin, the Black Monk

Grigori Rasputin

Montagu Love

1918

Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

Alfrd Desy

1918

Men Who Have Made Love to


Me

Mary MacLane

Mary MacLane

1918

The Life Story of David Lloyd


George

Norman Page

David Lloyd George

1918

Why America Will Win

John J. Pershing

Harris Gordon

1918

The Woman the Germans Shot

Edith Cavell

Julia Arthur

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1919

Deliverance

Helen Keller

Ann Mason

1919

The Fighting Roosevelts

Theodore Roosevelt

Herbert Bradshaw

1919

Private Peat

Harold R. Peat

Harold R. Peat

1920

Das Schweigen am
Starnbergersee

Ludwig II of Bavaria

Ferdinand Bonn

1920

Headin' Home

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

1921

Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

George Arliss

1922

Dick Turpin's Ride to York

Dick Turpin

Matheson Lang

1922

Nero

Nero

Jacques Grtillat

1922

Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Emil Jannings

1922

A Prince of Lovers

Lord Byron

Howard Gaye

1923

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Charles Edward Stuart

Ivor Novello

1923

Columbus

Christopher Columbus

Fred Eric

1923

Friedrich Schiller - Eine


Dichterjugend

Friedrich Schiller

Theodor Loos

1923

Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes

Matheson Lang

1923

Landru, the Bluebeard of Paris

Henri Dsir Landru

Wilhelm Sichra

1923

The Little Napoleon

Napoleon

Egon von Hagen

1923

Paganini

Niccol Paganini

Conrad Veidt

1923

The Ten Commandments

Moses

Theodore Roberts

1924

Beau Brummel

Beau Brummel

John Barrymore

1924

The Dramatic Life of Abraham


Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

George A. Billings

1925

Karel Havlek Borovsk

Karel Havlek Borovsk

Jan W. Speerger

1926

Davy Crockett at the Fall of the


Davy Crockett
Alamo

1926

Josef Kajetn Tyl

Josef Kajetn Tyl

Zdenek Stepnek

1926

The Life Story of Charles


Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Chick Wango

1926

Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn

Dorothy Gish

1926

Nelson

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount


Nelson

Cedric Hardwicke

1927

The King of Kings

Jesus

H. B. Warner

1927

The Loves of Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

Ivan Mozzhukhin

1927

Napolon

Napoleon Bonaparte

Albert Dieudonn

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1928

Dream of Love

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Joan Crawford

1928

Luther

Martin Luther

Eugen Klpfer

1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Rene Jeanne Falconetti

1928

The Patriot

Tsar Paul I of Russia

Emil Jannings

1929

Die Knigsloge

Edmund Kean

Alexander Moissi

1928

Tracy the Outlaw

Harry Tracy

Jack Hoy

1928

Una nueva y gloriosa nacin

Manuel Belgrano

Francis X. Bushman

1929

Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

George Arliss

1929

Pierwsza milosc Kosciuszki

Tadeusz Kociuszko

Sykstus Lewicki

1930

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Walter Huston

1930

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid

Johnny Mack Brown

1930

Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus

Fritz Kortner

1930

A Lady's Morals

Jenny Lind

Grace Moore

1930

The Loves of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

Joseph Hislop

1930

Ludwig der Zweite, Knig von


Bayern

Ludwig II of Bavaria

William Dieterle

1931

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

George Arliss

1931

Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus

Cedric Hardwicke

1931

A Portuguesa de Npoles

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

Maria do Ceu Foz

1931

Yorck

Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg

Werner Krauss

1932

El canto del ruiseor

Julin Gayarre

Jos Romeu

1932

House of Death

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nikolai Khmelyov

1932

Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Grace Moore

1932

Rasputin and the Empress

Alexandra Feodorovna

Ethel Barrymore

Grigori Rasputin

Lionel Barrymore

1933

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Henry VIII

Charles Laughton

1933

Queen Christina

Queen Christina of Sweden

Greta Garbo

1933

Voltaire

Voltaire

George Arliss

1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Norma Shearer

Robert Browning

Fredric March

1934

Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII

Claudette Colbert

1934

The House of Rothschild

Mayer Rothschild

George Arliss

1934

The Iron Duke

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

George Arliss

Wellington
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1934

Love Time

Franz Schubert

Nils Asther

1934

The Mighty Barnum

P. T. Barnum

Wallace Beery

1934

Nell Gwynn

Nell Gwynn

Anna Neagle

1934

The Rise of Catherine the Great

Catherine II of Russia

Elisabeth Bergner

1934

The Scarlet Empress

Catherine II "The Great" of Russia Marlene Dietrich

1934

Strauss' Great Waltz

1934

Johann Strauss II

Esmond Knight

Johann Strauss I

Edmund Gwenn

Unfinished Symphony

Franz Schubert

Hans Jaray

1934

Viva Villa!

Pancho Villa

Wallace Beery

1934

Waltzes from Vienna

Johann Strauss II

Esmond Knight

1934

Za rannch cervnku

Josef Dobrovsk

Karel Hasler

1935

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

Barbara Stanwyck

1935

Clive of India

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive

Ronald Colman

1935

Das Mdchen Johanna

Joan of Arc

Angela Salloker

1935

Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim Brady

Edward Arnold

1935

Drake the Pirate

Francis Drake

Matheson Lang

1935

Harmony Lane

Stephen Foster

Douglass Montgomery

1935

Milan Rastislav tefnik

Milan Rastislav tefnik

Zvonimir Rogoz

1935

Napolon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

Albert Dieudonn

1935

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

Paul Muni

1936

Bocage

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage Raul de Carvalho

1936

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

George O'Brien

1936

The Great Ziegfeld

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

William Powell

1936

Hearts Divided

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

Marion Davies

Jrme Bonaparte

Dick Powell

1936

King August the Strong

Augustus II the Strong

Michael Bohnen

1936

Let's Go With Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Domingo Soler

1936

The Life and Loves of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven

Harry Baur

1936

Mary of Scotland

Mary, Queen of Scots

Katharine Hepburn

1936

The Plainsman

Wild Bill Hickok

Gary Cooper

1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Samuel Mudd

Warner Baxter

1936

Rembrandt

Rembrandt

Charles Laughton

1936

Rhodes of Africa

Cecil Rhodes

Walter Huston

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1936

Robin Hood of El Dorado

Joaquin Murrieta

Warner Baxter

1936

The White Angel

Florence Nightingale

Kay Francis

1937

Auld Lang Syne

Robert Burns

Andrew Cruickshank

1937

Fire Over England

Elizabeth I of England

Flora Robson

1937

The Great Garrick

David Garrick

Brian Aherne

1937

The Great John Ericsson

John Ericsson

Victor Sjstrm

1937

La paloma

Charlotte of Belgium

Medea de Novara

1937

Lenin in October

Vladimir Lenin

Boris Shchukin

1937

The Life of mile Zola

mile Zola

Paul Muni

1937

Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell

Clark Gable

1937

Peter the First

Peter the Great

Nikolai Simonov

1937

The Toast of New York

James Fisk

Edward Arnold

1937

Victoria the Great

Queen Victoria

Anna Neagle

1937

William Tindale

William Tyndale

Alan Wheatley

1937

Young Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

Valentin Litovsky

1938

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Adrienne Lecouvreur

Yvonne Printemps

1938

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Gary Cooper

1938

Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky

Nikolay Cherkasov

1938

Boys Town

Edward J. Flanagan

Spencer Tracy

1938

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky Maxim Gorky

Aleksei Lyarsky

1938

The Great Waltz

Johann Strauss II

Fernand Gravey

1938

The Life of Chopin

Frdric Chopin

Frank Henderson

1938

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Norma Shearer

1938

That Mothers Might Live

Ignaz Semmelweis

Shepperd Strudwick

1938

Pugachev

Yemelyan Pugachev

Yevgeny Matveyev

1938

Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin

Harry Baur

1938

Saint Theresa of Lisieux

Thrse of Lisieux

Irne Corday

1938

Sixty Glorious Years

Queen Victoria

Anna Neagle

1939

Conquest of Peter the Great

Peter the Great

Nikolai Simonov

1939

The Flying Irishman

Douglas Corrigan

Douglas Corrigan

1939

Frontier Marshal

Wyatt Earp

Randolph Scott

1939

The Great Victor Herbert

Victor Herbert

Allan Jones

1939

Immortal Waltz

Johann Strauss I

Paul Hrbiger

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Immortal Waltz

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Johann Strauss I

Paul Hrbiger

Jesse James

Jesse James

Tyrone Power

1939

Juarez

Benito Jurez

Paul Muni

1939

Kaiss wa leila

Qays

Badr Lama

Layla Al-Aamiriya

Amina Rizk

1939

Lenin in 1918

Vladimir Lenin

Boris Shchukin

1939

The Mad Empress

Charlotte of Belgium

Medea de Novara

1939

Man of Conquest

Sam Houston

Richard Dix

1939

Mulan Joins the Army

Hua Mulan

Chen Yunchang

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

Edith Cavell

Anna Neagle

1939

On His Own

Maxim Gorky

Aleksei Lyarsky

Elizabeth I of England

Bette Davis

1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth


and Essex

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of


Essex

Errol Flynn

1939

Robert Koch, der Bekmpfer des


Robert Koch
Todes

Emil Jannings

1939

The Story of Alexander Graham


Alexander Graham Bell
Bell

Don Ameche

1939

The Story of Vernon and Irene


Castle

Vernon Castle

Fred Astaire

Irene Castle

Ginger Rogers

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Henry Fonda

1940

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

Raymond Massey

1940

Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck

Paul Hartmann

1940

Brigham Young

Brigham Young

Dean Jagger

1940

Confcius

Confucius

Tang Huaiqiu

1940

Das Herz der Knigin

Mary, Queen of Scots

Zarah Leander

1940

A Dispatch from Reuter's

Paul Reuter

Edward G. Robinson

1940

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Paul Ehrlich

Edward G. Robinson

1940

Edison, the Man

Thomas A. Edison

Spencer Tracy

1940

The Heart of a Queen

Mary, Queen of Scots

Zarah Leander

1940

Kit Carson

Kit Carson

Jon Hall

1940

Knute Rockne, All American

Knute Rockne

Pat O'Brien

1940

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell

Alice Faye

1940

Lady with Red Hair

Mrs. Leslie Carter

Miriam Hopkins

1940

Rambrandt

Rembrandt

Jules Verstraete

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The Return of Frank James

Frank James

Henry Fonda

1940

The Rothschilds

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Carl Kuhlmann

1940

Santa Fe Trail

J.E.B. Stuart

Errol Flynn

1940

Semmelweis

Ignaz Semmelweis

Tivadar Uray

1940

Swanee River

Stephen Foster

Don Ameche

1940

The Westerner

Judge Roy Bean

Walter Brennan

1940

Young Tom Edison

Thomas A. Edison

Mickey Rooney

1941

Belle Starr

Belle Starr

Gene Tierney

1941

Blossoms in the Dust

Edna Gladney

Greer Garson

1941

Carl Peters

Karl Peters

Hans Albers

1941

Die schwedische Nachtigall

Jenny Lind

Ilse Werner

1941

Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Gustaf Grndgens

1941

Hudson's Bay

Pierre-Esprit Radisson

Paul Muni

Mdard des Groseilliers

Laird Cregar

1941

Moi universitety

Maxim Gorky

Nikolai Valbert

1941

Ohm Krger

Paul Kruger

Emil Jannings

1941

The Prime Minister

Benjamin Disraeli

John Gielgud

1941

Sergeant York

Alvin York

Gary Cooper

1941

Suvorov

Alexander Suvorov

Nikolai Cherkasov-Sergeyev

1941

That Hamilton Woman

Emma Hamilton

Vivien Leigh

Lord Horatio Nelson

Laurence Olivier

1941

Stepan Razin

Stenka Razin

Andrei Abrikosov

1941

They Died with Their Boots On

George Armstrong Custer

Errol Flynn

1941

You Will Remember

Leslie Stuart

Robert Morley

1942

Diesel

Rudolf Diesel

Willy Birgel

1942

The First of the Few

R. J. Mitchell

Leslie Howard

1942

Gentleman Jim

James J. Corbett

Errol Flynn

1942

The Great Mr. Handel

George Frideric Handel

Wilfrid Lawson

1942

Here Will I Nest

Thomas Talbot

John Sullivan

1942

La Symphonie fantastique

Hector Berlioz

Jean-Louis Barrault

1942

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Shepperd Strudwick

1942

My Gal Sal

Paul Dresser

Victor Mature

1942

The Pride of the Yankees

Lou Gehrig

Gary Cooper

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt

Ewald Balser

1942

Rossini

Gioachino Rossini

Nino Besozzi

1942

Simn Bolvar

Simn Bolvar

Julin Soler

1942

Tennessee Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Van Heflin

1942

Wen die Gtter lieben

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hans Holt

1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

George M. Cohan

James Cagney

1942

The Young Mr Pitt

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Donat

1943

Der Unendliche Weg

Friedrich List

Eugen Klpfer

1943

Dixie

Daniel Decatur Emmett

Bing Crosby

1943

Forja de almas

Andrs Manjn

Ral Cancio

1943

The Iron Major

Frank Cavanaugh

Pat O'Brien

1943

Is Everybody Happy?

Ted Lewis

Michael Duane

1943

Jack London

Jack London

Michael O'Shea

1943

Madame Curie

Marie Curie

Greer Garson

Pierre Curie

Walter Pidgeon

1943

The Song of Bernadette

Bernadette Soubirous

Jennifer Jones

1943

Wien 1910

Karl Lueger

Rudolf Forster

1944

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Fredric March

1944

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill

Joel McCrea

1944

The Fighting Sullivans

Sullivan brothers

1944

The Great Moment

William T. G. Morton

Joel McCrea

1944

Henry V

Henry V of England

Laurence Olivier

1944

The Hitler Gang

Adolf Hitler

Bobby Watson

1944

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV of Russia

Nikolay Cherkasov

1944

La Malibran

Maria Malibran

Geori-Bou

1944

Roger Touhy, Gangster

Roger Touhy

Preston Foster

Shine on Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes

Ann Sheridan

Jack Norworth

Dennis Morgan

1944

Su mejor alumno

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Enrique Muio

1944

Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Alexander Knox

1944

Zoya

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Galina Vodyanitskaya

1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII

1944

Claude Rains and Vivien


Leigh

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Captain Eddie

Eddie Rickenbacker

Fred MacMurray

1945

Captain Kidd

William Kidd

Charles Laughton

1945

Dillinger

John Dillinger

Lawrence Tierney

1945

The Dolly Sisters

Janszieka "Jenny" Dolly

Betty Grable

Rozsika "Rosie" Dolly

June Haver

1945

God Is My Co-Pilot

Robert Lee Scott, Jr.

Dennis Morgan

1945

Incendiary Blonde

Texas Guinan

Betty Hutton

1945

Pride of the Marines

Al Schmid

John Garfield

1945

Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin

Robert Alda

1945

A Royal Scandal

Catherine II of Russia

Tallulah Bankhead

1945

A Song to Remember

Frdric Chopin

Cornel Wilde

1946

Anna and the King of Siam

Anna Leonowens

Irene Dunne

1946

Cames

Lus de Cames

Antonio Vilar

Charlotte Bront

Olivia de Havilland

Emily Bront

Ida Lupino

Anne Bront

Nancy Coleman

1946

Devotion

1946

Gallant Journey

John Joseph Montgomery

Glenn Ford

1946

The Great Glinka

Mikhail Glinka

Boris Chirkov

1946

The Jolson Story

Al Jolson

Larry Parks

1946

The Magic Bow

Niccol Paganini

Stewart Granger

1946

Night and Day

Cole Porter

Cary Grant

1946

The Magic Bow

Niccol Paganini

Stewart Granger

1946

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham

Herbert Marshall

1946

Sister Kenny

Elizabeth Kenny

Rosalind Russell

1946

So Goes My Love

Hiram Percy Maxim

Don Ameche

1946

Till the Clouds Roll By

Jerome Kern

Robert Walker

1947

Albniz

Isaac Albniz

Pedro Lpez Lagar

1947

The Fabulous Dorseys

Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey

Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey

1947

Monsieur Vincent

Vincent de Paul

Pierre Fresnay

1947

My Wild Irish Rose

Chancellor Olcott

Dennis Morgan

1947

The Perils of Pauline

Pearl White

Betty Hutton

1947

Seine einzige Liebe

Franz Schubert

Franz Bheim

Clara Schumann and Robert

Katharine Hepburn and Paul

Schumann

Henreid

1947

Song of Love

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Song of Scheherazade

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Jean-Pierre Aumont

1948

The Babe Ruth Story

Babe Ruth

William Bendix

1948

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Charles Edward Stuart

David Niven

1948

Brindis a Manolete

Manolete

Pedro Ortega

1948

El marqus de Salamanca

Jos de Salamanca, 1st Count of


los Llanos

Fernando Aguirre

1948

The Iron Curtain

Igor Gouzenko

Dana Andrews

1948

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Ingrid Bergman

1948

The Lame Devil (Le Diable


boiteux)

Talleyrand

Sacha Guitry

1948

Macbeth

Macbeth of Scotland

Orson Welles

1948

Man to Men

Henry Dunant

Jean-Louis Barrault

1948

Saraband

Philip Christoph von Knigsmarck Stewart Granger

1948

The Mozart Story

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hans Holt

1948

Words and Music

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

Tom Drake and Mickey


Rooney

1949

Alexander Popov

Alexander Stepanovich Popov

Nikolay Cherkasov

1949

Almafuerte

Pedro Bonifacio Palacios

Narciso Ibez Menta

1949

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

Fredric March

1949

Docteur Laennec

Ren Laennec

Pierre Blanchar

1949

Eroica

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ewald Balser

1949

Heaven over the marshes

Maria Goretti

Ins Orsini

1949

Hen. Gregorio del Pilar

Gregorio del Pilar

Jose Padilla, Jr.

1949

Padre Burgos

Jose Burgos

Jaime de la Rosa

1949

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

Aleksandr Borisov

1949

Jolson Sings Again

Al Jolson

Larry Parks

1949

Life of St. Paul Series

Paul the Apostle

Nelson Leigh

1949

Orpopojan valssi

J. Alfred Tanner

Sakari Halonen

1949

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Victor Mature and Hedy


Lamarr

1949

The Stratton Story

Monty Stratton

James Stewart

1949

Young Girls of Vienna

Karl Michael Ziehrer

Willi Forst

1949

The Bad Lord Byron

Lord Byron

Dennis Price

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Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or
actress

1950

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Oakley

Betty Hutton

1950

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Jos Ferrer

1950

The Jackie Robinson Story

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

1950

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Harold Tasker

1950

The Magnificent Yankee

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Louis Calhern

1950

Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Aleksandr Borisov

1950

Over the Waves

Juventino Rosas

Pedro Infante

1950

The Petty Girl

George Petty

Robert Cummings

1950

Three Little Words

Bert Kalmar

Fred Astaire

Harry Ruby

Red Skelton

1950

Young Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

David Bruce

1950

Young Man with a Horn

Bix Beiderbecke

Kirk Douglas

1950

Zhukovsky

Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky

Yuri Yurovsky

1951

David and Bathsheba

King David

Gregory Peck

Bathsheba

Susan Hayward

1951

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

James Mason

1951

Diego Silang

Diego Silang

Jos Padilla, Jr.

1951

Follow the Sun

Ben Hogan

Glenn Ford

1951

The Great Caruso

Enrico Caruso

Mario Lanza

1951

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

William Asbury Thompson

William Lundigan

1951

I Was an American Spy

Claire Phillips

Ann Dvorak

1951

I'll See You in My Dreams

Gus Kahn

Danny Thomas

1951

Jim Thorpe All-American

Jim Thorpe

Burt Lancaster

1951

The Lady and the Bandit

Dick Turpin

Louis Hayward

1951

The Lady with the Lamp

Florence Nightingale

Anna Neagle

1951

The Magic Box

William Friese-Greene

Robert Donat

1951

Silver Glory

D. W. Griffith

John Newland

1951

Valentino

Rudolph Valentino

Anthony Dexter

1951

Wherever She Goes

Eileen Joyce

Suzanne Parrett

1952

Above and Beyond

Paul Tibbets

Robert Taylor

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Blackbeard the Pirate

Blackbeard

Robert Newton

1952

Carbine Williams

David Marshall Williams

James Stewart

1952

Dr.Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Pierre Fresnay

The Girl in White

Emily Barringer

June Allyson

1952

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

Danny Kaye

1952

I Dream of Jeanie

Stephen Foster

Bill Shirley

1952

The Iron Mistress

James Bowie

Alan Ladd

1952

Kalle Karlsson frn Jularbo

Calle Jularbo

Jan-Olof Lindstedt

1952

Million Dollar Mermaid

Annette Kellerman

Esther Williams

1952

Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Jos Ferrer

1952

No Greater Love

Bertha von Suttner

Hilde Krahl

1952

The Pride of St. Louis

Dizzy Dean

Dan Dailey

1952

Procs au Vatican

Thrse of Lisieux

France Descaut

1952

The Secret Conclave

Pope Pius X

Henri Vidon

1952

Somebody Loves Me

Blossom Seeley

Betty Hutton

Benny Fields

Ralph Meeker

1952

Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa

Clifton Webb

1952

The Story of Will Rogers

Will Rogers

Will Rogers, Jr.

1952

Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

Sergei Bondarchuk

1952

Viva Zapata!

Emiliano Zapata

Marlon Brando

1952

The Winning Team

Grover Cleveland Alexander

Ronald Reagan

1952

With a Song in My Heart

Jane Froman

Susan Hayward

1952

The Young Caruso

Enrico Caruso

Ermanno Randi

1952

Young Chopin

Frdric Chopin

Czeslaw Wollejko

1953

The Actress

Ruth Gordon

Jean Simmons

1953

Admiral Ushakov

Fyodor Ushakov

Ivan Pereverzev

1953

Belinsky

Vissarion Belinsky

Sergei Kurilov

1953

Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane

Doris Day

1953

Chaimite

Lus da Silva Mouzinho de


Albuquerque

Jacinto Ramos

1953

Crazylegs

Elroy Hirsch

Elroy Hirsch

1953

Dagohoy

Francisco Dagohoy

Mario Montenegro

1953

The Eddie Cantor Story

Eddie Cantor

Keefe Brasselle

1952

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Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

Heinrich Schweiger

1953

Houdini

Harry Houdini

Tony Curtis

1953

The I Don't Care Girl

Eva Tanguay

Mitzi Gaynor

1953

The Joe Louis Story

Joe Louis

Coley Wallace

1953

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Marlon Brando

1953

The Lawless Breed

John Wesley Hardin

Rock Hudson

1953

The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Pierre Cressoy

1953

Man of Music

Mikhail Glinka

Boris Smirnov

1953

Martin Luther

Martin Luther

Niall MacGinnis

1953

Melba

Nellie Melba

Patrice Munsel

1953

Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Gabriele Ferzetti

1953

The President's Lady

Andrew Jackson

Charlton Heston

Rachel Donelson Robards

Susan Hayward

1953

So This Is Love

Grace Moore

Kathryn Grayson

1953

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

W. S. Gilbert

Robert Morley

Arthur Sullivan

Maurice Evans

1953

Young Bess

Elizabeth I of England

Jean Simmons

1954

Beau Brummell

Beau Brummell

Stewart Granger

1954

The Bob Mathias Story

Bob Mathias

Bob Mathias

1954

Canaris

Wilhelm Canaris

O. E. Hasse

1954

Cuando me vaya

Mara Grever

Libertad Lamarque

1954

Deep in My Heart

Sigmund Romberg

Jos Ferrer

1954

Der Komdiant von Wien

Alexander Girardi

Karl Paryla

1954

Der rote Prinz

Archduke Johann Salvator of


Austria (Johann Orth)

Peter Pasetti

1954

Desire

Dsire Clary

Jean Simmons

Napoleon Bonaparte

Marlon Brando

1954

El joven Jurez

Benito Jurez

Humberto Almazn

1954

Ernst Thlmann

Ernst Thlmann

Gnther Simon

1954

The Eternal Waltz

Johann Strauss II

Bernhard Wicki

1954

The Glenn Miller Story

Glenn Miller

James Stewart

1954

His Majesty O'Keefe

David O'Keefe

Burt Lancaster

1954

John Wesley

John Wesley

Leonard Sachs

1954

Rimskiy-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Grigori Belov

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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Miyamoto Musashi

Toshir Mifune

1954

Sauerbruch Das war mein Leben

Ferdinand Sauerbruch

Ewald Balser

1954

Seger i mrker

Gustaf Daln

Olof Bergstrm

1955

Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur

Valentina Cortese

1955

Chief Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

Victor Mature

1955

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell

Gary Cooper

1955

Ernst Thlmann

Ernst Thlmann

Gnther Simon

1955

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Evelyn Nesbit

Joan Collins

1955

Interrupted Melody

Marjorie Lawrence

Eleanor Parker

1955

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Lillian Roth

Susan Hayward

1955

Lapu-Lapu

Lapu-Lapu

Mario Montenegro

1955

The Last Command

James Bowie

Sterling Hayden

1955

Lola Monts

Lola Montez

Martine Carol

1955

The Long Gray Line

Martin Maher

Tyrone Power

1955

Love Me or Leave Me

Ruth Etting

Doris Day

1955

Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Knigs

Ludwig II of Bavaria

O.W. Fischer

1955

Magic Fire

Richard Wagner

Alan Badel

1955

A Man Called Peter

Peter Marshall

Richard Todd

1955

Melodie immortali - Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni

Pierre Cressoy

1955

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Oskar Werner
Daniel Glin (Young)

1955

Napolon

Napoleon

Raymond Pellegrin
(Older)

1955

Prince of Players

Edwin Booth

Richard Burton

1955

Richard III

Richard III of England

Laurence Olivier

1955

Road to Life

Anton Makarenko

Vladimir Yemelyanov

1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Miyamoto Musashi

Toshir Mifune

1955

Seven Angry Men

John Brown

Raymond Massey

1955

Seven Cities of Gold

Junpero Serra

Michael Rennie

1955

The Seven Little Foys

Eddie Foy, Sr.

Bob Hope

1955

Skkijrven polkka

Viljo Vesterinen

Sakari Jurkka

1955

'To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy

1955

The Virgin Queen

Elizabeth I of England

Bette Davis

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Wiegenlied

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Osa Massen

1956

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Richard Burton

1956

Ang buhay at pag-ibig ni Dr. Jose Rizal

Jos Rizal

Eddie Del Mar

1956

The Benny Goodman Story

Benny Goodman

Steve Allen

Buddy DeSylva

Gordon MacRae

Ray Henderson

Dan Dailey

Lew Brown

Ernest Borgnine

1956

The Best Things in Life Are Free

1956

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

Daniel Boone

Bruce Bennett

1956

The Eddy Duchin Story

Eddy Duchin

Tyrone Power

1956

The Conqueror

Genghis Khan

John Wayne

1956

Heneral Paua

Heneral Paua

Danilo Montes

1956

The King and I

Anna Leonowens

Deborah Kerr

1956

Lust for Life

Vincent van Gogh

Kirk Douglas

1956

Magic Fire

Richard Wagner

Alan Badel

1956

Reach for the Sky

Douglas Bader

Kenneth More

1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Miyamoto Musashi

Toshir Mifune

1956

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Rocky Graziano

Paul Newman

1956

The Ten Commandments

Moses and Ramesses II

Charlton Heston and


Yul Brynner

1956

Walk the Proud Land

John Clum

Audie Murphy

1957

After the Ball

Vesta Tilley

Patricia Kirkwood

1957

Alfonsina

Alfonsina Storni

Amelia Bence

1957

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Jennifer Jones

Robert Browning

Bill Travers

1957

Battle Hymn

Dean Hess

Rock Hudson

1957

Beau James

Jimmy Walker

Bob Hope

1957

The Buster Keaton Story

Buster Keaton

Donald O'Connor

1957

En drmmares vandring

Dan Andersson

Jarl Kulle

1957

Fear Strikes Out

Jimmy Piersall

Anthony Perkins

1957

The Flying Dutchman

Anthony Fokker

Ton Kuyl

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

Helen Morgan

Ann Blyth

1957

Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels

Kim Novak

1957

A Lesson in History

Georgi Dimitrov

Stefan Savov

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1957

Made in Germany - Die dramatische


Geschichte des Hauses Zeiss

Ernst Abbe

Carl Raddatz

1957

Mahn bel yaranr

Sleyman Stalski

K. Slanov

1957

Man of a Thousand Faces

Lon Chaney, Sr.

James Cagney

1957

Monkey on My Back

Barney Ross

Cameron Mitchell

1957

Nine Lives

Jan Baalsrud

Jack Fjeldstad

1957

Rasskazy o Lenine

Vladimir Lenin

Maksim Shtraukh

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Mariya Pastukhova

1957

Rot ist die Liebe

Hermann Lns

Dieter Borsche

1957

Saint Joan

Joan of Arc

Jean Seberg

1957

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles Lindbergh

James Stewart

1957

Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann

Ernst Schrder

1957

The Three Faces of Eve

Chris Costner Sizemore

Joanne Woodward

1957

The True Story of Jesse James

Jesse James

Robert Wagner

Frank James

Jeffrey Hunter

1957

The Wings of Eagles

Frank Wead

John Wayne

1958

The Bonnie Parker Story

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker

Dorothy Provine

1958

Carve Her Name with Pride

Violette Szabo

Virginia McKenna

1958

The Csardas Princess

Emmerich Klmn

Gerhard Riedmann

1958

Das Mdchen Rosemarie

Rosemarie Nitribitt

Nadja Tiller

1958

I Accuse!

Alfred Dreyfus

Jos Ferrer

1958

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Gladys Aylward

Ingrid Bergman

1958

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV of Russia

Nikolay Cherkasov

1958

I Want to Live!

Barbara Graham

Susan Hayward

1958

The Left Handed Gun

Billy the Kid

Paul Newman

1958

The Lovers of Montparnasse

Amedeo Modigliani

Grard Philipe

1958

Machine-Gun Kelly

Machine Gun Kelly

Charles Bronson

1958

The Naked Maja

Goya

Anthony Franciosa,

1958

Rasputn

Grigori Rasputin

Narciso Ibez
Menta

1958

Sebastian Kneipp

Sebastian Kneipp

Carl Wery

1958

The Silent Enemy

Lionel Crabb

Laurence Harvey

1958

St. Louis Blues

W. C. Handy

Nat King Cole

1958

Too Much, Too Soon

Diana Barrymore

Dorothy Malone

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John Barrymore

Errol Flynn

1959

Affre Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus

1959

Al Capone

Al Capone

Rod Steiger

1959

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Millie Perkins

1959

The Five Pennies

Red Nichols

Danny Kaye

1959

Gayarre

Julin Gayarre

Alfredo Kraus

1959

The Gene Krupa Story

Gene Krupa

Sal Mineo

1959

Glorious Mysteries (El Amo)

Jesus

Antonio Vilar

1959

The Great Impostor

Ferdinand Waldo Demara

Tony Curtis

1959

Hannibal

Hannibal

Victor Mature

1959

Herod the Great

Herod the Great

Edmund Purdom

1959

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Robert Stack

1959

Leap to Fame

Santiago Ramn y Cajal

Adolfo Marsillach

1959

Love Now, Pay Later

Rosemarie Nitribitt

Belinda Lee

1959

The Redeemer

Jesus

Luis lvarez

1959

Solomon and Sheba

King Solomon

Yul Brynner

Queen of Sheba

Gina Lollobrigida

1960s
Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or actress

Alfonso XII of Spain

Vicente Parra

Maria Christina of Austria

Marga Lpez

Henri Dsir Landru

George Sanders

King David

Ivica Pajer

King Saul

Orson Welles

Esther and the King

Esther

Joan Collins

1960

The Gallant Hours

William Halsey, Jr.

James Cagney

1960

Hell to Eternity

Guy Gabaldon

Jeffrey Hunter

1960

I Aim at the Stars

Wernher von Braun

Curd Jrgens

1960

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Robert Morley

1960

Por ti aprend a querer

Lorenzo Barcelata

Antonio Maciel

1960

Pretty Boy Floyd

Pretty Boy Floyd

John Ericson

1960

Song Without End

Franz Liszt

Dirk Bogarde

1960

Alfonso XII y Mara Cristina

1960

Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons

1960

David and Goliath

1960

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Franz Liszt

Dirk Bogarde

Spartacus

Spartacus

Kirk Douglas

1960

The Story of Ruth

Ruth

Elana Eden

1960

Sunrise at Campobello

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ralph Bellamy

1960

Sweetheart of the Gods

Renate Mller

Ruth Leuwerik

1960

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Peter Finch

1961

Barabbas

Barabbas

Anthony Quinn

1961

Darclee

Hariclea Darcle

Silvia Popovici

1961

El Cid

El Cid

Charlton Heston

1961

The Flash Elorde Story

Gabriel Elorde

Gabriel Elorde

1961

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi

Bradford Dillman

1961

Fray Escoba

Martin de Porres

Ren Muoz

1961

Galileo

Galileo Galilei

James Grout

1961

The George Raft Story

George Raft

Ray Danton

1961

Hoodlum Priest

Father Charles Dismas Clark

Don Murray

1961

King of Kings

Jesus

Jeffrey Hunter

1961

King of the Roaring 20s

Arnold Rothstein

David Janssen

1961

Mad Dog Coll

Mad Dog Coll

John Davis Chandler

1961

The Moises Padilla Story

Moises Padilla

Leopoldo Salcedo

1961

Portrait of a Mobster

Dutch Schultz

Vic Morrow

1961

A Story of David

King David

Jeff Chandler

1962

Birdman of Alcatraz

Robert Franklin Stroud

Burt Lancaster

1962

Docteur Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Jean-Pierre Marielle

1962

Elgar

Edward Elgar

Peter Brett

1962

Freud: The Secret Passion

Sigmund Freud

Montgomery Clift

1962

Geronimo

Geronimo

Chuck Connors

1962

Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Richard Basehart

1962

Joseph and His Brethren

Joseph

Geoffrey Horne

1962

Lawrence of Arabia

T. E. Lawrence

Peter O'Toole

1962

The Miracle Worker

Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan

Patty Duke and Anne


Bancroft

1962

No Man Is an Island

George Ray Tweed

Jeffrey Hunter

1962

The Reluctant Saint

Joseph of Cupertino

Maximilian Schell

1962

Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano

Pietro Cammarata

1962

Sodom and Gomorrah

Lot

Stewart Granger

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Stewart Granger

The Trial of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Florence Delay

1962

The Wonderful World of the


Brothers Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm

Laurence Harvey

Jacob Grimm

Karlheinz Bhm

1963

Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din

Saladin

Ahmed Mazhar

1963

Cleopatra

Cleopatra VII

Elizabeth Taylor

1963

Jacob, the Man Who Fought With


God

Jacob

Fosco Giacchei

1963

Landru

Henri Dsir Landru

Charles Denner

1963

PT 109

John F. Kennedy

Cliff Robertson

1964

Becket

Thomas Becket

Richard Burton

1964

Lady General Hua Mulan

Hua Mulan

Ivy Ling Po

1964

Saul and David

King David

Gianni Garko

King Saul

Norman Wooland

1964

Your Cheatin' Heart

Hank Williams

George Hamilton

1965

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Michelangelo

Charlton Heston

1965

The Debussy Film

Claude Debussy

Oliver Reed

1965

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

Omar Sharif

1965

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Jesus

Max von Sydow

1965

Harlow

Jean Harlow

Carroll Baker

1965

Harlow

Jean Harlow

Carol Lynley

1965

The Magnificent Yankee

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Alfred Lunt

1965

A Man Named John

Pope John XXIII

Giovanni Rossi

1965

A Patriot for Me

Alfred Redl

John Osborne

1966

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev

Anatoly Solonitsyn

1966

Born Free

Joy Adamson

Virginia McKenna

George Adamson

Bill Travers

1966

El Greco

El Greco

Mel Ferrer

1966

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer


Isadora Duncan
in the World

1966

Khartoum

1966
1966

Vivian Pickles

General Gordon

Charlton Heston

Muhammad Ahmad

Laurence Olivier

La vida de Pedro Infante

Pedro Infante

Jose Infante Cruz

A Man for All Seasons

Thomas More

Paul Scofield

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Thomas More

Paul Scofield

Rasputin, the Mad Monk

Grigori Rasputin

Christopher Lee

1966

The Singing Nun

Jeanine Deckers

Debbie Reynolds

1967

Bill Wallace of China

Dr Bill Wallace

Gregory Walcott

1967

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Parker

Faye Dunaway

Clyde Barrow

Warren Beatty

1967

Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

Horst Buchholz

1967

Custer of the West

George Armstrong Custer

Robert Shaw

1967

The Happiest Millionaire

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle,


Sr.

Fred MacMurray

1967

Sofiya Perovskaya

Sofiya Perovskaya

Aleksandra Nazarova

1968

Bloody Che Contra

Che Guevara

Francisco Rabal

1968

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena


Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Gustav Leonhardt

Anna Magdalena Bach

Christiane Lang

1968

The Color of Pomegranates

Sayat-Nova

Sofiko Chiaureli, others

1968

Funny Girl

Fanny Brice

Barbra Streisand

Anna Constantia von Brockdorff Jadwiga Baraska


1968

Hrabina Cosel

1968

Augustus II the Strong

Mariusz Dmockowski

Isadora

Isadora Duncan

Vanessa Redgrave

1968

The Lion in Winter

Henry II of England and Eleanor Peter O'Toole and


of Aquitaine
Katharine Hepburn

1968

Star!

Gertrude Lawrence

Julie Andrews

1968

Song of Summer

Frederick Delius

Max Adrian

1969

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

David Hemmings

1969

Anne of the Thousand Days

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

Richard Burton and


Genevive Bujold

1969

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and Harry


Longabaugh

Paul Newman and Robert


Redford

1969

Che!

Che Guevara

Omar Sharif

1969

De Sade

Marquis de Sade

Keir Dullea

1969

Emma Hamilton

Emma Hamilton

Michle Mercier

Lord Horatio Nelson

Richard Johnson

1969

Posol Sovetskogo Soyuza

Alexandra Kollontai

Yuliya Borisova

1969

Simn Bolvar

Simn Bolvar

Maximilian Schell

1969

Where's Jack?

Jack Sheppard

Tommy Steele

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Jack Sheppard

Tommy Steele

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Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or actress

1970

A Bullet for
Pretty Boy

Pretty Boy Floyd

Fabian

1970

Chisum

John Chisum

John Wayne

1970

Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

Richard Harris

1970

The Cross and


David Wilkerson
the Switchblade

1970

Shirley Stoler
The Honeymoon Martha Beck
Killers
Raymond Fernandez Tony Lo Bianco

1970

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Charlton Heston

1970

Michael the
Brave

Michael the Brave

Amza Pellea

1970

Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

Mick Jagger

1970

Patton

George S. Patton

George C. Scott

1970

Song of Norway

Edvard Grieg and


Rikard Nordraak

Toralv Maurstad and Frank Poretta

1970

Szerelmi lmok
Franz Liszt
Liszt

Imre Sinkovits

1970

Tropic of
Cancer

Henry Miller

Rip Torn

1970

The Wild Child

Victor of Aveyron

Jean-Pierre Cargol

1971

Brian's Song

Brian Piccolo

James Caan

1971

The Devils

Urbain Grandier

Oliver Reed

1971

Doc

Doc Holliday

Stacy Keach

1971

Evel Knievel

Evel Knievel

George Hamilton

1971

Macbeth

Macbeth of Scotland Jon Finch

1971

Mary, Queen of
Mary, Queen of
Scots and Elizabeth I Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson
Scots
of England

1971

The Music
Lovers

1971

Nicholas and
Alexandra

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Pat Boone

Richard Chamberlain

Tsar Nicholas II and


Tsaritsa Alexandra of Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman
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1971

10 Rillington
Place

John Reginald
Christie

1972

Adolf Hitler: My
Part in His
Spike Milligan
Downfall

Jim Dale

1972

The
Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky

Richard Burton

1972

Aguirre, the
Wrath of God

Lope de Aguirre

Klaus Kinski

1972

Antony and
Cleopatra

Mark Antony and


Cleopatra VII

Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil

1972

Brother Sun,
Sister Moon

St. Francis of Assisi


and St. Clare of
Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker
Assisi

1972

Dirty Little Billy Billy the Kid

Michael J. Pollard

1972

The Great Waltz Johann Strauss II

Horst Buchholz

1972

Henry VIII and


His Six Wives

Henry VIII and Anne


Keith Michell and Charlotte Rampling
Boleyn

1972

Lady Caroline
Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb Sarah Miles

1972

Lady Sings the


Blues

Billie Holiday

1972

The Life and


Times of Judge Judge Roy Bean
Roy Bean

Paul Newman

1972

The Life of
Leonardo da
Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Philippe Leroy

1972

Living Free

George Adamson

Nigel Davenport

Joy Adamson

Susan Hampshire

1972

Ludwig

Ludwig II of Bavaria Helmut Berger

1972

Ludwig Requiem for a


Virgin King

Ludwig II of Bavaria Harry Baer

Richard Attenborough

Diana Ross

The Mattei
1972

Affair

Enrico Mattei

Gian Maria Volont

1972

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Telly Savalas

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Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa

Telly Savalas

1972

Pope Joan

Pope Joan

Liv Ullmann

1972

Savage Messiah

Henri GaudierBrzeska

Scott Antony

1972

Tadas Blinda

Tadas Blinda

Vytautas Tomkus

1972

The Valachi
Papers

Joseph Valachi

Charles Bronson

1972

Young Winston

Winston Churchill

Simon Ward

1973

Dillinger

John Dillinger

Warren Oates

1973

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

Geir Westby

1973

Hitler: The Last


Adolf Hitler
Ten Days

Alec Guinness

1973

Jesus Christ
Superstar

Ted Neeley

1973

The Last
Junior Johnson
American Hero

Jeff Bridges

1973

Lucky Luciano

Lucky Luciano

Gian Maria Volont

1973

Maurie

Maurice Stokes

Bernie Casey

Jack Twyman

Bo Svenson

1973

Papillon

Henri Charrire and


Louis Dega

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman

1973

Pat Garrett and Pat Garrett


Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

James Coburn

1973

Serpico

Frank Serpico

Al Pacino

1973

Walking Tall

Buford Pusser

Joe Don Baker

1974

The Abdication

Queen Christina of
Sweden

Liv Ullmann

1974

The Enigma of
Kaspar Hauser
Kaspar Hauser

1974

The Great
McGonagall

William McGonagall Spike Milligan

1974

Lenny

Lenny Bruce

Dustin Hoffman

1974

Mahler

Gustav Mahler and


Alma Mahler

Robert Powell and Georgina Hale

1974

Stavisky

Alexandre Stavisky

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jesus

The Story of
Jacob
1974
Jacob and
Joseph
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Bruno S.

Keith Michell
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Joseph

1975

Babe

Babe Didrickson

Susan Clark

1975

Capone

Al Capone

Ben Gazzara

1975

Dog Day
Afternoon

Sonny Wortzik

Al Pacino

1975

Galileo

Galileo Galilei

Chaim Topol

1975

The Happy
Hooker

Xaviera Hollander

Lynn Redgrave

1975

The Hiding
Place

Corrie ten Boom

Julie Harris

1975

Lepke

Louis Buchalter

Tony Curtis

1975

Lisztomania

Franz Liszt

Roger Daltrey

1975

Moses

Moses

Burt Lancaster

1975

Murph the Surf Jack Roland Murphy Don Stroud

1975

The Naked Civil


Quentin Crisp
Servant

John Hurt

1975

The Other Side


Jill Kinmont
of the Mountain

Marilyn Hassett

1975

The Story of
Adele H.

Adle Hugo

Isabelle Adjani

1975

Un prete
scomodo

Lorenzo Milani

Enrico Maria Salerno

1976

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart

Susan Clark

1976

Bound for Glory Woody Guthrie

David Carradine

1976

Bruce Lee and I

1976

Bruce Lee: The


Bruce Lee
Man, The Myth

Bruce Li

1976

Buffalo Bill and


Buffalo Bill
the Indians

Paul Newman

1976

The
Disappearance
of Aimee

Aimee Semple
McPherson

Faye Dunaway

1976

Eleanor and
Franklin

Franklin D.
Roosevelt

Edward Herrmann

Eleanor Roosevelt

Jane Alexander

Giacomo Casanova

Donald Sutherland

1976

Fellini's

Tony Lo Bianco

Bruce Lee

Danny Lee

Betty Ting Pei

Betty Ting Pei

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Fellini's
Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

Donald Sutherland

1976

Gable and
Lombard

Clark Gable and


Carole Lombard

James Brolin and Jill Clayburgh

1976

James Dean

James Dean

Stephen McHattie

1976

The Last of Mrs.


Mary Todd Lincoln
Lincoln

Julie Harris

1976

The Message

Muhammad

Anthony Quinn

1976

Mohammad,
Messenger of
God

Muhammad

Anthony Quinn (as Hamza)

1976

'The Story of
David

King David

Timothy Bottoms

1976

Sybil

Shirley Ardell Mason Sally Field

1976

W.C. Fields and


W. C. Fields
Me

1977

Chanakya
Chandragupta

1977

The Amazing
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes

Tommy Lee Jones

1977

Greased
Lightning

Wendell Scott

Richard Pryor

1977

The Greatest

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

1977

MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

Gregory Peck

1977

Looking for Mr.


Roseann Quinn
Goodbar

Diane Keaton

1977

The Private
Files of J.
Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Broderick Crawford

1977

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin

Billy Dee Williams

1977

Valentino

Rudolph Valentino

Rudolf Nureyev

1977

Wilma

Wilma Rudolph

Shirley Jo Finney

1978

American Hot
Wax

Alan Freed

Tim McIntire

1978

The Buddy Holly


Buddy Holly
Story

Gary Busey

1978

Ishi: The Last of Ishi


His Tribe

Eloy Casados

Rod Steiger

Chanakya

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Chandragupta

N. T. Rama Rao

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La Vida y
Poesia de Julia
de Burgos

Julia de Burgos

Ana Li Diaz

1978

King (TV
miniseries)

Dr. Martin Luther


King, Jr.

Paul Winfield

1978

Midnight
Express

Billy Hayes

Brad Davis

1978

The Roads of
Exile

Jean-Jacques
Rousseau

Franois Simon

1979

Birth of The
Beatles

The Beatles

Stephen MacKenna as John Lennon, Rod Culbertson as Paul


McCartney, John Altman as George Harrison, and Ray
Ashcroft as Ringo Starr

Charlotte Bront

Isabelle Adjani

Emily Bront

Marie-France Pisier

Anne Bront

Isabelle Huppert

1979

The Bronte
Sisters

1979

Bruce Lee: The


Bruce Lee
Man, The Myth

1979

Caligula

Gaius Germanicus
Caligula

Malcolm McDowell

1979

Elvis

Elvis Presley

Kurt Russell

1979

Escape from
Alcatraz

Frank Morris

Clint Eastwood

1979

Jesus

Jesus

Brian Deacon

1979

Les gouts du
paradis

Albert Spaggiari

Francis Huster

1979

Meetings with
Remarkable
Men

George Gurdjieff

Dragan Maksimovic

Bruce Li

1980s
Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or
actress

1980

Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

Edward Woodward

1980

Coal Miner's Daughter

Loretta Lynn

Sissy Spacek

1980

The Elephant Man

John Merrick

John Hurt

1980

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Jim Jones

Powers Boothe

Neal Cassady

Nick Nolte

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Heart Beat

Carolyn Cassady

Sissy Spacek

Jack Kerouac

John Heard

Ralph "Papa" Thorson

Steve McQueen

Jayne Mansfield

Loni Anderson

Mickey Hargitay

Arnold Schwarzenegger

1980

The Hunter

1980

The Jayne Mansfield Story

1980

Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky

George de la Pea

1980

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

Samuel Mudd

Dennis Weaver

1980

Raging Bull

Jake LaMotta

Robert De Niro

1980

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Petar Boovi

1980

A Time for Miracles

Elizabeth Ann Seton

Kate Mulgrew

1980

Where the Buffalo Roam

Hunter S. Thompson

Bill Murray

1981

Agony

Grigori Rasputin

Alexei Petrenko

1981

The Bunker

Adolf Hitler

Anthony Hopkins

1981

Chariots of Fire

Harold Abrahams

Ben Cross

1981

Christiane F. We Children from Bahnhof Zoo Christiane F.

1981

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten


Story

1981

Natja Brunckhorst

Dorothy Stratten

Jamie Lee Curtis

Paul Snider

Bruce Weitz

Egon Schiele - Exzesse

Egon Schiele

Mathieu Carrire

1981

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy

Jaclyn Smith

1981

Lion of the Desert

Omar Mukhtar

Anthony Quinn

1981

Mommie Dearest

Joan Crawford

Faye Dunaway

1981

Peter and Paul

Paul of Tarsus

Anthony Hopkins

Peter the Fisherman

Robert Foxworth

1981

Reds

John Reed

Warren Beatty

1981

Stand By Your Man

Tammy Wynette

Annette O'Toole

George Jones

Tim McIntire

1982

Flight of the Eagle

Salomon August Andre

Max von Sydow

1982

Frances

Frances Farmer

Jessica Lange

1982

Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Ben Kingsley

1982

Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly

Cheryl Ladd

1982

The Grey Fox

Bill Miner

Richard Farnsworth

1982

Missing

Charles Horman

John Shea

1982

The Return of Martin Guerre

Arnaud du Tilh

Grard Depardieu

Bertrande de Rols

Nathalie Baye

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Charles, Prince of Wales

Christopher Baines

Diana, Princess of Wales

Catherine Oxenberg

1982

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

1982

The White Rose

Sophie Scholl

Lena Stolze

1982

A Woman Called Golda

Golda Meir

Ingrid Bergman

1983

Adi Shankaracharya

Adi Shankara

Sarvadaman D.
Banerjee

1983

Banovi Strahinja

Strahinja Banovi

Franco Nero

1983

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

Rita Hayworth

Lynda Carter

1983

Cross Creek

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Mary Steenburgen

1983

Champions

Bob Champion

John Hurt

1983

Danton

Georges Danton

Grard Depardieu

1983

Dempsey

Jack Dempsey

Treat Williams

1983

Heart Like a Wheel

Shirley Muldowney

Bonnie Bedelia

John F. Kennedy

Martin Sheen

1983

Kennedy

Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy

Blair Brown

1983

Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story

Hank Williams, Jr.

Richard Thomas

1983

Sadat

Anwar El Sadat

Louis Gossett, Jr

1983

The Scarlet and the Black

Hugh O'Flaherty

Gregory Peck

1983

Silkwood

Karen Silkwood

Meryl Streep

1983

Star 80

Dorothy Stratten

Mariel Hemingway

Paul Snider

Eric Roberts

1983

Wagner

Richard Wagner

Richard Burton

Antonio Salieri

F. Murray Abraham

Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart

Tom Hulce

Captain William Bligh

Anthony Hopkins

1984

Amadeus

1984

The Bounty

First Mate Fletcher


Christian

Mel Gibson

1984

The Jesse Owens Story

Jesse Owens

Dorian Harewood

Sydney Schanberg

Sam Waterston

Dith Pran

Haing S. Ngor

Jon Swain

Julian Sands

Helen Keller

Mare Winningham

1984

1984

The Killing Fields

The Miracle Continues

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The Miracle Continues

Helen Keller

Mare Winningham

1984

Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Robert Stephens

1984

Samson and Delilah

Samson

Max von Sydow

Delilah

Belinda Bauer

1985

Colonel Redl

Alfred Redl

Klaus Maria Brandauer

1985

Dance with a Stranger

Ruth Ellis

Miranda Richardson

1985

God Rot Tunbridge Wells

George Frideric Handel

Trevor Howard

1985

King David

King David

Richard Gere

1985

Marie

Marie Ragghianti

Sissy Spacek

1985

Mask

Florence Dennis

Cher

Roy L. Dennis

Eric Stoltz

1985

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Yukio Mishima

Ken Ogata

1985

Robert Kennedy & His Times

Robert F. Kennedy

Brad Davis

1985

Out of Africa

Karen Blixen

Meryl Streep

Denys Finch Hatton

Robert Redford

1985

Sweet Dreams

Patsy Cline

Jessica Lange

1985

Sylvia

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Eleanor David

1985

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Raoul Wallenberg

Richard Chamberlain

1986

The Boy in Blue

Ned Hanlan

Nicolas Cage

1986

Castaway

Gerald Kingsland

Oliver Reed

Lucy Irvine

Amanda Donohoe

1986

George Washington II: The Forging of a


Nation

George Washington

Barry Bostwick

1986

Heartburn

Nora Ephron

Meryl Streep

Carl Bernstein

Jack Nicholson

1986

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Henry Lee Lucas

Michael Rooker

1986

Lady Jane

Lady Jane Grey

Helena Bonham Carter

1986

The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James

Frank James

Johnny Cash

Jesse James

Kris Kristofferson

1986

Romanza final

Julin Gayarre

Jos Carreras

1986

Second Serve

Renee Richards

Vanessa Redgrave

1986

Sid and Nancy

Sid Vicious

Gary Oldman

Nancy Spungen

Chloe Webb

1986

Thrse

Thrse of Lisieux

Catherine Mouchet

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Thrse

Thrse of Lisieux

Catherine Mouchet

1986

A Winner Never Quits

Pete Gray

Keith Carradine

1987

The Betty Ford Story

Betty Ford

Gena Rowlands

1987

84 Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

Anne Bancroft

Frank Doel

Anthony Hopkins

1987

A Child Called Jesus

Jesus

Matteo Bellina

1987

Cry Freedom

Steve Biko

Denzel Washington

1987

Impossible Spy

Eli Cohen

John Shea

1987

La Bamba

Ritchie Valens

Lou Diamond Phillips

1987

LBJ: The Early Years

Lyndon B. Johnson

Randy Quaid

1987

The Last Emperor

Pu-Yi

John Lone

1987

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton


Story

Barbara Hutton

Farrah Fawcett

1987

Prick Up Your Ears

Joe Orton

Gary Oldman

Kenneth Halliwell

Alfred Molina

1987

Shaka Zulu

Shaka

Henry Cele

1987

The Untouchables

Eliot Ness

Kevin Costner

Al Capone

Robert De Niro

1987

Waiting for the Moon

Gertrude Stein

Linda Bassett

Alice B. Toklas

Linda Hunt

1987

Walker

William Walker

Ed Harris

1987

Good Morning Vietnam

Adrian Cronauer

Robin Williams

1988

Bird

Charlie Parker

Forest Whitaker

1988

Bloodsport

Frank Dux

Jean-Claude Van
Damme

1988

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel

Isabelle Adjani

1988

A Cry in the Dark

Lindy Chamberlain

Meryl Streep

1988

David

David Rothenberg

Matthew Lawrence

Marie Rothenberg

Bernadette Peters

1988

Elvis and Me

Elvis Presley

Dale Midkiff

Priscilla Presley

Susan Walters

1988

Gorillas in the Mist

Dian Fossey

Sigourney Weaver

1988

Hanna's War

Hannah Szenes

Maruschka Detmers

1988

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Victor Garber

1988

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Sam Waterston

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Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Sam Waterston

1988

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

Aristotle Onassis

Raul Julia

1988

Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst

Natasha Richardson

1988

Stand and Deliver

Jaime Escalante

Edward James Olmos

1988

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Preston Tucker

Jeff Bridges

1988

Young Guns

Billy the Kid

Emilio Estevez

1989

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid

Val Kilmer

1989

Blaze

Earl Long

Paul Newman

Blaze Starr

Lolita Davidovich

1989

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron Kovic

Tom Cruise

1989

Communion

Whitley Strieber

Christopher Walken

1989

Francesco

Francis of Assisi

Mickey Rourke

1989

Great Balls of Fire!

Jerry Lee Lewis

Dennis Quaid

1989

Henry V

Henry V of England

Kenneth Branagh

1989

The Karen Carpenter Story

Karen Carpenter

Cynthia Gibb

1989

Lean on Me

Joe Louis Clark

Morgan Freeman

1989

My Left Foot

Christy Brown

Daniel Day-Lewis

1989

Paganini

Niccol Paganini

Klaus Kinski

1998

Romero

scar Romero

Ral Juli

1989

Triumph of the Spirit

Salamo Arouch

Willem Dafoe

1989

Winter of '54: Father Pierre

Abb Pierre

Lambert Wilson

1989

Wired

John Belushi

Michael Chiklis

1989

Tjoet Nja' Dhien

Cut Nyak Dhien

Christine Hakim

1990s
Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or actress

1990

An Angel at My Table

Janet Frame

Karen Fergusson (child), Alexia Keogh


(adolescent) and Kerry Fox (adult)

1990

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

Robin Williams

1990

C.H. Spurgeon Tonight

Charles Spurgeon

Craig Skinner

1990

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Grard Depardieu

A Dangerous Man: Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

Ralph Fiennes

Faisal I of Iraq

Alexander Siddig

L. Frank Baum

John Ritter

1990

After Arabia

1990

The Dreamer of Oz

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The Dreamer of Oz

L. Frank Baum

1990

The Elegant Criminal

Pierre Franois Lacenaire Daniel Auteuil

1990

Europa Europa

Solomon Perel

Marco Hofschneider

1990

A Family of Spies

John Anthony Walker

Powers Boothe

1990

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg

Stellan Skarsgrd

1990

Goodfellas

Henry Hill

Ray Liotta

Henry Miller

Fred Ward

June Miller

Uma Thurman

Anas Nin

Maria de Medeiros

1990

Henry & June

John Ritter

1990

Iron & Silk

Mark Salzman

Mark Salzman

1990

The Krays

The Kray twins

Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp

1990

The Nasty Girl

Anna Rosmus

Lena Stolze

1990

Reversal of Fortune

Claus von Blow and


Sunny von Blow

Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close

1990

Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson

Thomas Ian Griffith

1990

Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Malcolm McDowell

1990

Vincent & Theo

Vincent van Gogh and


Theo van Gogh

Tim Roth and Paul Rhys

1990

Young Guns II

Billy the Kid

Emilio Estevez

1991

Bugsy

Bugsy Siegel

Warren Beatty

1991

Cabeza de Vaca

Cabeza de Vaca

Juan Diego

1991

Dillinger

John Dillinger

Mark Harmon

1991

The Doors

Jim Morrison

Val Kilmer

1991

Impromptu

Frdric Chopin and


George Sand

Hugh Grant and Judy Davis

1991

JFK

Jim Garrison

Kevin Costner

1991

The Josephine Baker Story

Josephine Baker

Lynn Whitfield

1991

Lucy & Desi: Before The


Laughter

Lucille Ball

Frances Fisher

Desi Arnaz

Maurice Benard

1991

Not Without My Daughter

Betty Mahmoody

Sally Field

1991

Once Upon a Time in China

Wong Fei-hung

Jet Li

1991

The Pistol: The Birth of a


Legend

Pete Maravich

Adam Guier

1991

Prisoner of Honor

Georges Picquart

Richard Dreyfuss

1991

Tous les matins du monde

Marin Marais

Grard Depardieu

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Grard Depardieu

Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Jacques Dutronc

A Woman Named Jackie

Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy Onassis

Roma Downey

John F. Kennedy

Stephen Collins

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

Sonora Webster Carver

Gabrielle Anwar

A Woman Named Jackie

Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy Onassis

Roma Downey

John F. Kennedy

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Young Catherine

Catherine II of Russia

Julia Ormond

1992

Amy Fisher: My Story

Amy Fisher

Noelle Parker

1992

The Babe

Babe Ruth

John Goodman

1992

Bonnie & Clyde: The True


Story

Bonnie Parker

Tracey Needham

Clyde Barrow

Dana Ashbrookt

1992

Center Stage

Ruan Lingyu

Maggie Cheung

1992

Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Robert Downey, Jr.

1992

Charles and Diana: Unhappily Charles, Prince of Wales Christopher Baines


Ever After
Diana, Princess of Wales Catherine Oxenberg

1992

Citizen Cohn

Roy Marcus Cohn

James Woods

1992

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Christopher Columbus

Grard Depardieu

1992

Christopher Columbus: The


Discovery

Christopher Columbus

Georges Corraface

1992

Daens

Adolf Daens

Jan Decleir

1992

Final Shot: The Hank Gathers


Hank Gathers
Story

Victor Love

1992

Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa

Jack Nicholson

1992

The Jacksons: An American


Dream

Jackson family

various casts

1992

The Last of His Tribe

Ishi

Graham Greene

1992

Lorenzo's Oil

Augusto and Michaela


Odone

Nick Nolte & Susan Sarandon

1992

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Denzel Washington

1992

A River Runs Through It

Norman Maclean

Craig Sheffer

1992

Ruby

Jack Ruby

Danny Aiello

1992

Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Philip Casnoff

1992

Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Robert Duvall

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Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Robert Duvall

1992

Swoon

Nathan Leopold

Craig Chester

Richard Loeb

Daniel Schlachet

1993

The Amy Fisher Story

Amy Fisher

Drew Barrymore

1993

Benito

Benito Mussolini

Antonio Banderas

1993

This Boy's Life

Tobias Wolff

Leonardo DiCaprio

1993

Cannibal! The Musical

Alferd Packer

Trey Parker

1993

Casualties of Love: The Long


Island Lolita Story

Amy Fisher

Alyssa Milano

1993

Diana: Her True Story

Diana, Princess of Wales Serena Scott Thomas

1993

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Bruce Lee

Jason Scott Lee

1993

Fong Sai Yuk

Fong Sai Yuk

Jet Li

1993

Geronimo: An American
Legend

Geronimo

Wes Studi

1993

Heaven & Earth

Le Ly Hayslip

Hiep Thi Le

1993

In The Name Of The Father

Guildford Four

Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite

1993

Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret


Life

Jeffrey Dahmer

Carl Crew

1993

JFK: Reckless Youth

John F. Kennedy

Patrick Dempsey

1993

Ludwig 1881

Ludwig II of Bavaria

Helmut Berger

1993

M. Butterfly

Bernard Boursicot

Jeremy Irons

1993

Rudy

Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger

Sean Astin

1993

Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler

Liam Neeson

1993

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Joshua Waitzkin

Max Pomeranc

1993

Shadowlands

C. S. Lewis and Joy


Gresham

Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger

1993

Shrinatha Kavi Sarvabhowma Srinatha

Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao

1993

Thirty Two Short Films About


Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

Colm Feore

1993

This Boy's Life

Tobias Wolff

Leonardo DiCaprio

1993

Tombstone

Wyatt Earp, Doc


Holliday

Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer

1993

Viva Castro!

Fidel Castro

Pavel Zharkov

Tina Turner

Angela Bassett

Ike Turner

Laurence Fishburne

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Karl Johnson

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What's Love Got to Do with It

1993

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Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Karl Johnson

1993

Zohar

Zohar Argov

Shaul Mizrachi

1994

Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda

Sarvadaman D. Banerjee

1994

Abraham

Abraham

Richard Harris

1994

Amelia Earhart: The Final


Flight

Amelia Earhart

Diane Keaton

1994

Backbeat

Stuart Sutcliffe and John


Lennon

Stephen Dorff and Ian Hart

1994

Bandit Queen

Phoolan Devi

Seema Biswas

1994

A Burning Passion: The


Margaret Mitchell Story

Margaret Mitchell

Shannen Doherty

1994

Cobb

Ty Cobb

Tommy Lee Jones

1994

Ed Wood

Ed Wood

Johnny Depp

Bela Lugosi

Martin Landau

1994

Farinelli

Farinelli

Stefano Dionisi

1994

Frank & Jesse

Jesse James

Rob Lowe

Frank James

Bill Paxton

1994

Heavenly Creatures

Pauline Parker and Juliet


Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet
Hulme

1994

Immortal Beloved

Ludwig van Beethoven

Gary Oldman

1994

In the Name of the Father

Gerry Conlon

Daniel Day-Lewis

1994

La Reine Margot

Queen Margot

Isabelle Adjani

1994

Jacob

Jacob

Matthew Modine

1994

The Madness of King George

George III of the United


Kingdom

Nigel Hawthorne

1994

Mesmer

Franz Anton Mesmer

Alan Rickman

1994

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious


Circle

Dorothy Parker

Jennifer Jason Leigh

1994

Nostradamus

Nostradamus

Tchky Karyo

1994

Quiz Show

Charles Van Doren

Ralph Fiennes

1994

8 Seconds

Lane Frost

Luke Perry

1994

A Soul Haunted by Painting

Pan Yuliang

Gong Li

1994

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Squanto

Adam Beach

T. S. Eliot

Willem Dafoe

Vivienne Haigh-Wood

Miranda Richardson

Vernon Johns

James Earl

1994

Tom & Viv

1994

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The Vernon Johns Story

Vernon Johns

James Earl

1994

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

Kevin Costner

1994

Zorn

Anders Zorn

Gunnar Hellstrm

1995

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll

Leonardo DiCaprio

1995

Braveheart

William Wallace

Mel Gibson

1995

Casino

Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal

Robert De Niro

1995

Catharine the Great

Catherine II of Russia

Catherine Zeta-Jones

1995

Carrington

Dora Carrington and


Lytton Strachey

Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce

1995

Citizen X

Viktor Burakov

Stephen Rea

1995

Dangerous Minds

LouAnne Johnson

Michelle Pfeiffer

1995

Dead Man Walking

Sister Helen Prejean

Susan Sarandon

1995

Faustina

Mary Faustina Kowalska Dorota Segda

1995

The Flor Contemplacion Story Flor Contemplacion

Nora Aunor

1995

Jefferson in Paris

Thomas Jefferson

Nick Nolte

1995

Joseph

Joseph

Paul Mercurio

1995

Le Grand blanc de Lambarn Albert Schweitzer

Andr Wilms

1995

Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story Elizabeth Taylor

Sherilyn Fenn

1995

Murder in the First

Henri Young

Kevin Bacon

1995

Nixon

Richard Nixon

Anthony Hopkins

1995

Panther

Bobby Seale

Courtney B. Vance

Huey P. Newton

Marcus Chong

1995

Restoration

Charles II of England

Sam Neill

1995

Rob Roy

Robert Roy MacGregor

Liam Neeson

1995

Sister My Sister

Christine and Lea Papin

1995

To Die For

Pamela Smart

1995

Total Eclipse

Arthur Rimbaud and Paul


Leonardo DiCaprio and David Thewlis
Verlaine

1995

Truman

Harry S. Truman

Gary Sinise

1995

Wild Bill

Wild Bill Hickok

Jeff Bridges

Calamity Jane

Ellen Barkin

1996

Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jeffrey Wright

John Proctor
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Jodhi May
Nicole Kidman

Daniel Day-Lewis

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The Crucible

Daniel Day-Lewis

Abigail Williams

Winona Ryder

1996

Entertaining Angels: The


Dorothy Day Story

Dorothy Day

Moira Kelly

1996

Evita

Eva Pern

Madonna

1996

The Ghost and the Darkness

John Henry Patterson

Val Kilmer

1996

Ghosts of Mississippi

Byron De La Beckwith

James Woods

1996

A Girl Called Rosemary

Rosemarie Nitribitt

Nina Hoss

1996

Gotti

John Gotti

Armand Assante

1996

Infinity

Richard Feynman

Matthew Broderick

1996

In Love and War

Ernest Hemingway

Chris O'Donnell

1996

I Shot Andy Warhol

Valerie Solanas

Lili Taylor

1996

Killer: A Journal of Murder

Carl Panzram

James Woods

1996

Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Liam Neeson

1996

Moses

Moses

Ben Kingsley

1996

Nasser 56

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Ahmed Zaki

1996

Norma Jean & Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe

Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino

1996

The People vs. Larry Flynt

Larry Flynt

Woody Harrelson

1996

Rasputin: Dark Servant of


Destiny

Grigori Rasputin

Alan Rickman

1996

Rebound: The Legend of Earl


"The Goat" Manigault

Earl Manigault

Don Cheadle

1996

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Dennis Hopper and Elizabeth Hurley

1996

Shine

David Helfgott

Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor

1996

Surviving Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Anthony Hopkins

1996

The Whole Wide World

Robert E. Howard

Vincent D'Onofrio

Novalyne Price Ellis

Rene Zellweger

1997

Artemisia

Artemisia Gentileschi

Valentina Cervi

1997

Breaking the Surface: The


Greg Louganis Story

Greg Louganis

Mario Lopez

1997

David

King David

Nathaniel Parker

1997

The Disappearance of Garcia


Lorca

Federico Garca Lorca

Andy Garca

1997

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco

Johnny Depp

1997

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Elvis Presley

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Rick Peters

Richard Nixon

Bob Gunton

Fernando Gabeira

Pedro Cardoso

Charles Burke Elbrick

Alan Arkin

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Michael Gambon

1997

Kundun

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai


Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, others
Lama

1997

The Last Time I Committed


Suicide

Neal Cassady

Thomas Jane

1997

Mrs. Brown

Queen Victoria

Judi Dench

John Brown

Billy Connolly

1997

My Heart Is Mine Alone

Else Lasker-Schler

Lena Stolze

Gottfried Benn

Cornelius Obonya

1997

Prefontaine

Steve Prefontaine

Jared Leto

1997

Private Parts

Howard Stern

Howard Stern

1997

Rizal sa Dapitan

Jose Rizal

Albert Martinez

1997

Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt

Tom Berenger

1997

Saint-Ex

Antoine de Saint-Exupry Bruno Ganz

1997

Selena

Selena

Jennifer Lopez

1997

Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer

Brad Pitt

1997

Solomon

King Solomon

Ben Cross

1997

The Sarah Balabagan Story

Sarah Balabagan

Vina Morales

1997

Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Stephen Fry

1998

A Bright Shining Lie

John Paul Vann

Bill Paxton

1998

Dangerous Beauty

Veronica Franco

Catherine McCormack

1998

Diana: A Tribute to the


People's Princess

Diana, Princess of Wales Amy Seccombe

1998

Elizabeth

Elizabeth I

Cate Blanchett

1998

Fear and Loathing in Las


Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Johnny Depp

1998

Fifteen and Pregnant

Tina Spangler

Kirsten Dunst

1998

The General

Martin Cahill

Brendan Gleeson

1998

Gia

Gia Marie Carangi

Angelina Jolie

1998

Gods and Monsters

James Whale

Ian McKellen

1998

Grey Owl

Grey Owl

Pierce Brosnan

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1997

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Grey Owl

1998

Hilary and Jackie

Hilary and Jacqueline du


Rachel Griffiths and Emily Watson
Pr

1998

Jeremiah

Jeremiah

Patrick Dempsey

1998

Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Christopher Lee

1998

Jos Rizal

Jos Rizal

Cesar Montano

1998

Lautrec

Henri de ToulouseLautrec

Rgis Royer

1998

Love Is the Devil: Study for a


Portrait of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

Derek Jacobi

1998

Patch Adams

Hunter "Patch" Adams

Robin Williams

1998

Permanent Midnight

Jerry Stahl

Ben Stiller

1998

The Prince of Egypt

Moses and Ramesses II

Val Kilmer and Ralph Fiennes (voices)

1998

The Rat Pack

Frank Sinatra, Dean


Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle
Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr.

1998

The Temptations

The Temptations

Leon, Terron Brooks, D. B. Woodside

1998

Shakespeare in Love

William Shakespeare

Joseph Fiennes

1998

Winchell

Walter Winchell

Stanley Tucci

1998

Without Limits

Steve Prefontaine

Billy Crudup

1998

Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Frankie Lymon

Larenz Tate

1998

Without Limits

Steve Prefontaine

Billy Crudup

Bill Bowerman

Donald Sutherland

1999

And The Beat Goes On: The


Sonny And Cher Story

Sonny Bono

Jay Underwood

Cher

Renee Faia

1999

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Joe Breen young, Ciaran Owens (middle)


and Michael Legge (older)

1999

Anna and the King

Anna Leonowens

Jodie Foster

1999

Balzac: A Life of Passion

Honor de Balzac

Grard Depardieu

1999

Boys Don't Cry

Brandon Teena

Hilary Swank

1999

Children of the Century

George Sand and Alfred


Juliette Binoche and Benot Magimel
de Musset

1999

Come On, Get Happy: The


Partridge Family Story

Danny Bonaduce

Shawn Pyfrom

David Cassidy

Rodney Scott

1999

Esther

Esther

Louise Lombard

1999

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

Winona Ryder

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Girl, Interrupted

1999

Goya in Bordeaux

Francisco de Goya

1999

Hefner: Unauthorized

Hugh Hefner

Randall Batinkoff

1999

The Hurricane

Rubin Carter

Denzel Washington

1999

The Insider

Jeffrey Wigand

Russell Crowe

1999

Introducing Dorothy
Dandridge

Dorothy Dandridge

Halle Berry

1999

Jesus

Jesus

Jeremy Sisto

1999

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Leelee Sobieski

1999

Man on the Moon

Andy Kaufman

Jim Carrey

1999

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Mary of Nazareth

Pernilla August

Young Mary

Melinda Kinnaman

1999

The Messenger: The Story of


Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Milla Jovovich

1999

Moloch

Adolf Hitler

Leonid Mozgovoy

1999

Molokai: The Story of Father


Damien

Father Damien

David Wenham

1999

Music of the Heart

Roberta Guaspari

Meryl Streep

1999

October Sky

Homer Hickam

Jake Gyllenhaal

1999

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand and Nathaniel


Helen Mirren and Eric Stoltz
Branden

1999

Passion: The Story of Percy


Grainger

Percy Grainger

Richard Roxburgh

1999

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Steve Jobs

Noah Wyle

Bill Gates

Anthony Michael Hall

1999

Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano

Jon Favreau

1999

The Straight Story

Alvin Straight

Richard Farnsworth

1999

To Walk with Lions

George Adamson

Richard Harris

Tony Fitzjohn

John Michie

1999

Topsy-Turvy

W. S. Gilbert

Jim Broadbent

Arthur Sullivan

Allan Corduner

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2000

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Lead actor or actress


Jennifer Love Hewitt

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The Audrey Hepburn Story

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas

Javier Bardem

2000

Best

George Best

John Lynch

2000

Chopper

Mark Brandon
"Chopper" Read

Eric Bana

Joseph of
Nazareth

Tabias Moretti

Mary Magdalene

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Judas

Enrico Lo Verso

Thomas

Ricky Tognazzi

2000

Close to Jesus

2000

The Courage To Love

Henriette DeLille

Vanessa L. Williams

2000

The Crossing

George
Washington

Jeff Daniels

2000

The David Cassidy Story

David Cassidy

Andrew Kavovit

Shirley Jones

Dey Young

2000

Daydream Believers: The


Monkees Story

The Monkees

Multiple Actors

2000

Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts

2000

The Farewell

Bertolt Brecht

Josef Bierbichler

2000

For Love or Country: The


Arturo Sandoval Story

Arturo Sandoval

Andy Garcia

Barry Williams

Adam Brody

2000

Growing Up Brady

Florence
Henderson

Rebeccah Bush

2000

Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

Wood Harris

2000

I Dreamed of Africa

Kuki Gallmann

Kim Basinger

2000

In His Life: The John Lennon


Story

John Lennon

Philip McQuillan Phoenix

2000

In the Light of the Moon

Ed Gein

Steve Railsback

2000

Isn't She Great

Jacqueline Susann Bette Midler

2000

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline
Joanne Whalley
Kennedy Onassis

2000

Joe Gould's Secret

Joe Gould

Ian Holm

2000

Joseph: King of Dreams

Joseph

Ben Affleck (voice)

2000

Little Richard

Little Richard

Leon Robinson

2000

Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba Eriq Ebouaney

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Men of Honor

Carl Brashear

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

2000

The Miracle Maker

Jesus (voice)

Ralph Fiennes

2000

Murderous Maids

Christine and Lea Sylvie Testud


Papin
Julie-Marie Parmentier

2000

One Hundred Steps

Giuseppe
Impastato

Luigi Lo Cascio

William
Wordsworth

John Hannah

Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

Linus Roache

2000

Pandaemonium

2000

Paul the Apostle

Paul of Tarsus

Johannes Brandrup

2000

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Lou Smit

Kris Kristofferson

2000

Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Ed Harris

2000

Quills

Marquis de Sade

Geoffrey Rush

2000

Remember the Titans

Herman Boone

Denzel Washington

2000

Ricky 6

Ricky Kasso

Vincent Kartheiser

2000

Shadow of the Vampire

F. W. Murnau

John Malkovich

Max Schreck

Willem Dafoe

2000

Steal This Movie!

Abbie Hoffman

Vincent D'Onofrio

Moe Howard

Paul Ben-Victor

Larry Fine

Evan Handler

Curly Howard

Michael Chiklis

Shemp Howard

John Kassir

2000

The Three Stooges

2000

Vatel

Franois Vatel

Grard Depardieu

2000

Word and Utopia

Antnio Vieira

Lima Duarte

2001

61*

Roger Maris,
Mickey Mantle

Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane

2001

Ali

Muhammad Ali

Will Smith

2001

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Anne Frank

Hannah Taylor-Gordon

2001

Attila

Attila

Gerard Butler

2001

Ayyam El Sadat

Anwar Al Sadat

Ahmad Zaki

2001

A Beautiful Mind

John Nash

Russell Crowe

2001

Blow

George Jung

Johnny Depp

2001

Bojangles

Bill Robinson

Gregory Hines

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Brian Piccolo

Sean Maher

Gale Sayers

Mekhi Phifer

Alma Mahler

Sarah Wynter

Gustav Mahler

Jonathan Pryce

2001

Brian's Song

2001

Bride of the Wind

2001

The Cat's Meow

William Randolph
Edward Herrmann
Hearst

2001

Child Star: The Shirley Temple


Story

Shirley Temple

2001

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky

Derek Jacobi

2001

The Gaul

Vercingetorix

Christopher Lambert

2001

A Huey P. Newton Story

Huey P. Newton

Roger Guenveur Smith

2001

Hysteria: The Def Leppard


Story

Def Leppard

Multiple Actors

2001

In the Time Of Butterflies

Minerva Mirabal

Salma Hayek

2001

Iris

Iris Murdoch

2001

Jacqueline
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women Kennedy
of Camelot
Ethel Kennedy

Emily Hart (older)


Ashley Rose Orr (young)

Judi Dench (older)


Kate Winslet (young)
Jill Hennessy
Lauren Holly

Joan Kennedy

Leslie Stefanson

James Dean

James Franco

2001

James Dean

2001

Life with Judy Garland: Me and


Judy Garland
My Shadows

Judy Davis (older)


Mary Tyler Moore

2001

Like Mother, Like Son: The


Sante Kimes
Strange Story of Sante & Kenny
Kenny Kimes
Kimes

2001

Mad Love

Tammy Blanchard (young)

Gabriel Olds

Joanna of Castile

Pilar Lpez de Ayala

Philip I of Castile

Daniele Liotti

2001

The Other Side of Heaven

John H. Groberg

Christopher Gorham

2001

Piero

Miguel Piero

Benjamin Bratt

2001

Riding in Cars with Boys

Beverly Donofrio

Drew Barrymore

2001

Taurus

Vladimir Lenin

Leonid Mozgovoy

2001

Der Tunnel

Hasso Herschel

Heino Ferch

2002

Antwone Fisher

Antwone Q.

Derek Luke (adult)

Fisher

Malcolm David Kelley (child)

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Bob Crane

Greg Kinnear

George VI

James Wilby

2002

Bertie and Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth
The Queen
Mother

Juliet Aubrey

2002

Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale

Leonardo DiCaprio

2002

Callas Forever

Maria Callas

Fanny Ardant

2002

Chi-hwa-seon

Owon

Choi Min-sik

2002

The Child I Never Was

Jrgen Bartsch

Tobias Schenke

2002

Chopin: Desire for Love

Fryderyk Chopin

Piotr Adamczyk

George Sand

Danuta Stenka

2002

Confessions of a Dangerous
Mind

Chuck Barris

Sam Rockwell

2002

Conviction

Carl Upchurch

Omar Epps

2002

Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeremy Renner

2002

Evelyn

Desmond Doyle

Pierce Brosnan

2002

Fidel

Fidel Castro

Vctor Huggo Martin

2002

Frida

Frida Kahlo

Salma Hayek

2002

Gada Meilin

Gada Meiren

Deligeer

2002

The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill Albert Finney

2002

Gilda Radner: It's Always


Something

Gilda Radner

Jami Gertz

Gene Wilder

Tom Rooney

2002

Gleason

Jackie Gleason

Brad Garrett

2002

The Hours

Virginia Woolf

Nicole Kidman

2002

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans

Robert Evans

Lapu-Lapu

Lito Lapid

2002

Lapu-Lapu

Ferdinand
Magellan

Dante Rivero

2002

The Legend of Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh

Ajay Devgan

2002

Madame Sat

Madame Sat

Lzaro Ramos

2002

Martin and Lewis

Dean Martin and


Jerry Lewis

Jeremy Northam and Sean Hayes

2002

The Matthew Shepard Story

Matthew Shepard Shane Meier

2002

Path to War

Lyndon B.

Michael Gambon

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The Pianist

Wadysaw
Szpilman

Adrien Brody

2002

Prince William

Prince William

Jordan Frieda

2002

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Molly Graig

Everlyn Sampi

Daisy Kadibil

Tianna Sansbury

2002

The Rookie

Jim Morris

Dennis Quaid

2002

The Rosa Parks Story

Rosa Parks

Angela Bassett

2002

Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton Kenneth Branagh

2002

The Soul Keeper

2002
2002

Sabina Spielrein

Emilia Fox

Carl Gustav Jung

Iain Glen

Francesco

Francis of Assisi

Raoul Bova

Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy

Michael Reilly Burke

John F. Kennedy,
Kristoffer Polaha
Jr.
2003

America's Prince: The John F.


Kennedy Jr. Story

Jackie Kennedy
Onassis

Jacqueline Bisset

Carolyn Bessette
Kennedy

Portia de Rossi

2003

American Splendor

Harvey Pekar

Paul Giamatti

2003

And Starring Pancho Villa as


Himself

Pancho Villa

Antonio Banderas

2003

BAADASSSSS!

Melvin Van
Peebles

Mario Van Peebles

John Ritter

Bret Anthony

2003

Behind the Camera: The


Unauthorized Story of Three's
Company

Suzanne Somers

Jud Tylor

Joyce DeWitt

Melanie Deanne Moore

2003

Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold: A Question of
George
Honor
Washington

2003

Blind Flight

2003

Cambridge Spies

2003

Cleopatra

Aidan Quinn
Kelsey Grammer

John McCarthy

Linus Roache

Brian Keenan

Ian Hart

Guy Burgess

Tom Hollander

Donald MacLean Rupert Penry-Jones


Cleopatra VII

Norma Aleandro

A Date with Darkness: The


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Trial and Capture of Andrew


Luster

Andrew Luster

Jason Gedrick

2003

The Deal

Gordon Brown

David Morrissey

Tony Blair

Michael Sheen

2003

The Elizabeth Smart Story

Elizabeth Smart

Amber Marshall

2003

Henry VIII

Henry VIII

Ray Winstone

2003

High Roller: The Stu Ungar


Story

Stu Ungar

Michael Imperioli

2003

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Adolf Hitler

Robert Carlyle

2003

Imperium: Augustus

Caesar Augustus

Peter O' Toole

King Henry II

Patrick Stewart
Glenn Close

2003

The Lion in Winter

Eleanor of
Aquitaine

2003

The Lost Prince

Prince John

2003

Lucy

2003

Daniel Williams (young)


Matthew James Thomas (older)

Lucille Ball

Rachel York

Desi Arnaz

Danny Pino

Luther

Martin Luther

Joseph Fiennes

2003

Maria Goretti

Maria Goretti

Martina Pinto

2003

Martha, Inc.: The Story of


Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart

Cybill Shepherd

2003

Monster

Aileen Wuornos

Charlize Theron

2003

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa

Olivia Hussey

2003

Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

Heath Ledger

2003

The Night We Called It a Day

Frank Sinatra

Dennis Hopper

2003

Paradise Found

Paul Gauguin

Kiefer Sutherland

2003

Party Monster

Michael Alig

Macaulay Culkin

Radio

James Robert
"Radio" Kennedy

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Harold Jones

Ed Harris

Ronald Reagan

James Brolin

Nancy Reagan

Judy Davis

Stephen Glass

Hayden Christensen

2003

2003

The Reagans

2003

Shattered Glass

Soraya
2003

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Anna Valle
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Shah Mohammad
Erol Sander
Reza Pahlavi

2003

Stander

Andre Stander

Thomas Jane

2003

Swimming Upstream

Tony Fingleton

Jesse Spencer

2003

Sylvia

Sylvia Plath

Gwyneth Paltrow

2003

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

Brendan Mackey

2003

Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin

Cate Blanchett

2003

Wonderland

John Holmes

Val Kilmer

2004

Against the Ropes

Jackie Kallen

Meg Ryan

2004

Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple
McPherson

Mimi Michaels

2004

Alexander

Alexander the
Great

Colin Farrell

2004

The Assassination of Richard


Nixon

Samuel Byck

Sean Penn

2004

The Aviator

Howard Hughes

Leonardo DiCaprio

2004

Beautiful Boxer

Parinya
Charoenphol

Asanee Suwan
Tricia Helfer

2004

Farrah Fawcett
Behind the Camera: The
Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Jaclyn Smith
Angels
Kate Jackson

2004

Bettie Page: Dark Angel

Bettie Page

Paige Richards

2004

Beyond the Sea

Bobby Darin

Kevin Spacey

2004

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones

Jim Caviezel

2004

The Brooke Ellison Story

Brooke Ellison

Lacey Chabert & Vanessa Marano

2004

Call Me: The Rise and Fall of


Heidi Fleiss

Heidi Fleiss

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

2004

3: The Dale Earnhardt Story

Dale Earnhardt

Barry Pepper

2004

De-Lovely

Cole Porter

Kevin Kline

2004

Downfall

Adolf Hitler

Bruno Ganz

2004

Finding Neverland

J. M. Barrie

Johnny Depp

2004

Fighter in the Wind

Masutatsu Oyama Yang Dong-geun

2004

Helter Skelter

Charles Manson

Jeremy Davies

2004

Hidalgo

Frank Hopkins

Viggo Mortensen

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Christina Chambers
Lauren Stamile

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Hotel Rwanda

Paul Rusesabagina Don Cheadle

2004

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Dwight D.
Eisenhower

Tom Selleck

2004

Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey

Liam Neeson

2004

The Libertine

John Wilmot, 2nd


Johnny Depp
Earl of Rochester

2004

The Life and Death of Peter


Sellers

Peter Sellers

2004

Man in the Mirror: The Michael


Michael Jackson
Jackson Story

Flex Alexander

2004

Miracle

Herb Brooks

Kurt Russell

2004

Modigliani

Amedeo
Modigliani

Andy Garca

2004

The Motorcycle Diaries

Che Guevara

Gael Garca Bernal

Alberto Granado

Rodrigo de la Serna

2004

Nero

Nero

Hans Matheson

2004

My Nikifor

Nikifor

Krystyna Feldman

2004

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Justine Waddell

Robert Wagner

Michael Weatherly

2004

Ray

Ray Charles

Jamie Foxx

2004

Redemption: The Stan Tookie


Williams Story

Stanley Tookie
Williams

Jamie Foxx

2004

The Sea Inside

Ramon Sampedro Javier Bardem

2004

Something The Lord Made

2004

Stage Beauty

Edward Kynaston Billy Crudup

2004

Thrse

Saint Thrse of
Lisieux

2005

2 Filhos de Francisco

Zez Di Camargo Mrcio Kieling


& Luciano
Thiago Mendona

2005

Amber Frey: Witness For The


Prosecution

Geoffrey Rush

Alfred Blalock

Alan Rickman

Vivien Thomas

Mos Def

Lindsay Younce

Amber Frey

Janel Moloney

Scott Peterson

Nathan Anderson

Gloria Allred

Nora Dunn

2005

Ambulance Girl

Jane Stern

Kathy Bates

2005

Aurore

Aurore Gagnon

Marianne Fortier

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Robin Williams

Chris Diamantopoulos

2005

Behind the Camera: The


Unauthorized Story of Mork &
Mindy

Pam Dawber

Erinn Hayes

2005

Blue Swallow

Park Kyung-won

Jang Jin Young

2005

Bose The Forgotten Hero

Subhas Chandra
Bose

Sachin Khedekar

2005

Capote

Truman Capote

Philip Seymour Hoffman

2005

Charles Wesley: Hymns of


Praise

Charles Wesley

John Jackman

2005

Cinderella Man

James J.
Braddock

Russell Crowe

2005

Coach Carter

Ken Carter

Samuel L. Jackson

2005

Dsir Landru

Henri Dsir
Landru

Patrick Timsit

2005

Domino

Domino Harvey

Keira Knightley

2005

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I of
England

Helen Mirren

2005

Elvis

Elvis Presley

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

2005

The Flight That Fought Back

Mark Bingham

Jason LeGrande

Jeremy Glick

Kevin Paul

2005

Gie

Soe Hok Gie

Nicholas Saputra

2005

Good Night, and Good Luck

Edward R.
Murrow

David Strathairn

2005

The Greatest Game Ever


Played

Francis Ouimet

Shia LaBeouf

2005

The Hunt for the BTK Killer

Dennis Rader

Gregg Henry

2005

Jarhead

Anthony Swofford Jake Gyllenhaal

2005

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of


the Restoration

Joseph Smith

Nathan Mitchell

2005

Karol: A Man Who Became


Pope

Karol Wojtya

Piotr Adamczyk

2005

The Libertine

John Wilmot, 2nd


Johnny Depp
Earl of Rochester

2005
2005

Lords of Dogtown
Martha Behind Bars

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Stacy Peralta

John Robinson

Jay Adams

Emile Hirsch

Tony Alva

Victor Rasuk

Martha Stewart

Cybill Shepherd
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2005

Maurice Richard

Maurice 'The
Rocket' Richard

Roy Dupuis

2005

Mrs. Harris

Jean Harris

Annette Bening

2005

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Laura Henderson

Judi Dench

Murder Unveiled

Jaswinder Kaur
Sidhu

Anita Majumdar

2005

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

Eugene Simon

2005

The New World

John Smith

Colin Farrell

Pocahontas

Q'orianka Kilcher

2005

The Notorious Bettie Page

Bettie Page

Gretchen Mol

2005

Pierrepoint

Albert Pierrepoint Timothy Spall

2005

Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II Cary Elwes (young), Jon Voight (old)

2005

The Prize Winner of Defiance,


Ohio

Evelyn Ryan

2005

The Queen's Sister

Princess Margaret Lucy Cohu

2005

Riot at the Rite

Vaslav Nijinsky

Adam Garcia

2005

The Rising

Mangal Pandey

Aamir Khan

2005

The Rocket

Maurice Richard

Roy Dupuis

2005

Sophie Scholl The Final Days Sophie Scholl

Julia Jentsch

2005

Stoned

Brian Jones

Leo Gregory

2005

Saint Peter

Saint Peter

Omar Sharif

2005

The Sun

Emperor Hirohito

Issey Ogata

2005

Trump Unauthorized

Donald Trump

Justin Louis

2005

Waking Up Wally: The Walter


Gretzky Story

Walter Gretzky

Tom McCamus

Wayne Gretzky

Kristen Holden-Ried

2005

Walk the Line

Johnny Cash

Joaquin Phoenix

June Carter Cash

Reese Witherspoon

Franklin D.
Roosevelt

Kenneth Branagh

2005

2005

Warm Springs

Julianne Moore

Eleanor Roosevelt Cynthia Nixon


2005

The World's Fastest Indian

Burt Munro

2006

Albert Schweitzer: Called to


Africa

Albert Schweitzer Jeff McCarthy

2006

Amazing Grace

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William
Wilberforce

Anthony Hopkins

Ioan Gruffudd
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Albert Finney

John Newton

Nick Moran

2006

The Amazing Grace

2006

Beau Brummell: This Charming


Beau Brummell
Man

2006

The Borgia

2006

Catch a Fire

Patrick Chamusso Derek Luke

2006

Color of the Cross

Jesus

Jean-Claude La Marre

2006

The Death of Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Redfield

2006

Driving Lessons

Jeremy Brock

Rupert Grint

2006

El Benny

Benny Mor

Renny Arozarena

2006

El Cantante

Hctor Lavoe

Marc Anthony

2006

Factory Girl

Edie Sedgwick

Sienna Miller

2006

The Fantasia Barrino Story:


Life Is Not a Fairy Tale

Fantasia Barrino

2006

Fearless

Huo Yuanjia

Jet Li

2006

The Flying Scotsman

Graeme Obree

Jonny Lee Miller

2006

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of


Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

Nicole Kidman

2006

Glory Road

Don Haskins

Josh Lucas

2006

The Good Shepherd

James Jesus
Angleton

Matt Damon

2006

Goya's Ghosts

Francisco Goya

Stellan Skarsgrd

2006

A Guide to Recognizing Your


Saints

Dito Montiel

2006

Hannibal Rome's Worst


Nightmare

Hannibal

Alexander Siddig

2006

Henry Dunant: Red on the


Cross

Henry Dunant

Thomas Jouannet

2006

Hollywoodland

George Reeves

Ben Affleck

2006

Infamous

Truman Capote

Toby Jones

2006

Invincible

Vince Papale

Mark Wahlberg

2006

Klimt

Gustav Klimt

John Malkovich

2006

The Last King of Scotland

Idi Amin

Forest Whitaker

2006

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Kirsten Dunst

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James Purefoy

Rodrigo Borgia

Llus Homar

Cesare Borgia

Sergio Peris-Mencheta

Fantasia Barrino (older)


Jamia Simone Nash (young)

Robert Downey, Jr. (adult)


Shia LaBeouf (young)

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2006

Milarepa

Milarepa

Jamyang Lodro

2006

Miss Potter

Beatrix Potter

Rene Zellweger

Mary of Nazareth Keisha Castle-Hughes


2006

The Nativity Story

Joseph of
Nazareth

Oscar Isaac

Esther

Tiffany Dupont

King Xerxes 1

Luke Goss

2006

One Night with the King

2006

Provoked

Kiranjit Ahluwalia Aishwarya Rai

2006

The Pursuit of Happyness

Christopher
Gardner

2006

Pushkin: The Last Duel

Alexander Pushkin Sergei Bezrukov

2006

The Queen

HM Queen
Elizabeth II

Helen Mirren

2006

Raising Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer

Rusty Sneary

2006

Requiem

Anneliese Michel

Sandra Hller

2006

The Ron Clark Story

Ron Clark

Matthew Perry

2006

Running with Scissors

Augusten
Burroughs

Joseph Cross

2006

United 93

Mark Bingham

Cheyenne Jackson

Jeremy Glick

Peter Hermann

2006

The Water Is Wide

Pat Conroy

Jeff Hephner

2006

We Are Marshall

Jack Lengyel

Matthew McConaughey

2006

Why I Wore Lipstick to My


Mastectomy

Geralyn Lucas

Sarah Chalke

2006

Wild Romance

Herman Brood

Danil Boissevain

2006

World Trade Center

John McLoughlin

Nicolas Cage

Will Jimeno

Michael Pea

2007

American Gangster

Frank Lucas

Denzel Washington

Sylvia Likens

Ellen Page

Will Smith

2007

An American Crime

Gertrude
Baniszewski

Catherine Keener

Jesse James

Brad Pitt

2007

The Assassination of Jesse


James by the Coward Robert
Ford

Robert Ford

Casey Affleck

2007

Assembly

Gu Zidi

Zhang Hanyu

2007

Becoming Jane

Jane Austen

Anne Hathaway

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2007

The Black Pimpernel

Harald Edelstam

Michael Nyqvist

2007

Breach

Robert Hanssen

Chris Cooper

2007

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson

Tom Hanks

2007

Clare and Francis

Clare of Assisi

Mary Petruolo

Francis of Assisi

Ettore Bassi

2007

Control

Ian Curtis

Sam Riley

2007

Colour Me Kubrick

Alan Conway

John Malkovich

2007

Crazy

Hank Garland

Waylon Payne

2007

Dark Matter

Gang Lu

Liu Ye

2007

Das Wilde Leben

Uschi Obermaier

Natalia Avelon

2007

Diana: Last Days of a Princess

Diana, Princess of
Genevieve O'Reilly
Wales

2007

The Diving Bell and the


Butterfly

Jean-Dominique
Bauby

Mathieu Amalric

2007

Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann

Thomas Kretschmann

2007

El Cantante

Hctor Lavoe

Marc Anthony

2007

El Greco

El Greco

Nick Ashdon

2007

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth I

Cate Blanchett

2007

Freedom Writers

Erin Gruwell

Hilary Swank

2007

Gandhi, My Father

Mahatma Gandhi

Darshan Jariwala

Harilal Gandhi

Akshaye Khanna

2007

Genghis Khan: To the Ends of


the Earth and Sea

Genghis Khan

Takashi Sorimachi

2007

Georg

Georg Ots

Marko Matvere

2007

Goodbye Bafana

James Gregory

Joseph Fiennes

Nelson Mandela

Dennis Haysbert

2007

The Hoax

Clifford Irving

Richard Gere

2007

Hwang Jin Yi

Hwang Jin Yi

Song Hye Kyo

2007

I'm Not There

Bob Dylan

Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger,


Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Ben
Whishaw.

2007

Into The Wild

Christopher
McCandless

Emile Hirsch

2007

Jump!

Philippe Halsman

Ben Silverstone

2007

The Killing of John Lennon

Mark David
Chapman

Jonas Ball

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2007

The Killing of John Lennon

2007

The King

Graham Kennedy Stephen Curry

2007

La Vie En Rose

dith Piaf

2007

Manolete

Manuel Laureano
Adrien Brody
Rodrguez Snchez

2007

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady

Tate Donovan

2007

A Mighty Heart

Mariane Pearl

Angelina Jolie

Daniel Pearl

Dan Futterman

2007

Miss Austen Regrets

Jane Austen

Olivia Williams

2007

Mongol

Genghis Khan

Tadanobu Asano

2007

Music Within

Richard Pimentel

Ron Livingston

2007

My Father

Hwang Nam-cheol Kim Yeong-cheol

2007

Nightwatching

Rembrandt

Martin Freeman

2007

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Chiara Mastroianni (voice)

2007

Pride

Jim Ellis

Terrence Howard

2007

Rescue Dawn

Dieter Dengler

Christian Bale

2007

Rise of the Footsoldier

Carlton Leach

Ricci Harnett

2007

Romulus, My Father

Romulus Gaita

Eric Bana

Raimond Gaita

Kodi Smit-McPhee

2007

Saint Mary

Mary (mother of
Jesus)

Shabnam Gholikhani

2007

Shake Hands with the Devil

Romo Dallaire

Roy Dupuis

2007

The Singer

Hctor Lavoe

Raul Carbonell

2007

Sybil

Shirley Ardell
Mason

Tammy Blanchard

2007

Talk to Me

Ralph "Petey"
Greene

Don Cheadle

2007

Tears of a King

Elvis Presley

Matt Lewis

2007

The Ten Commandments

Moses

Ben Kingsley (voice)

2007

Theresa: The Body of Christ

Saint Teresa of
vila

Paz Vega

2007

26 Years Diary

Lee Su-hyon

Lee Tae-sung

2007

Zodiac

Robert Graysmith Jake Gyllenhaal

Admiral

Alexander
Kolchak

2008

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Chapman

Jonas Ball

Marion Cotillard

Konstantin Habensky
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Amlia

Amlia Rodrigues Sandra Barata

2008

Billy: The Early Years

Billy Graham

Armie Hammer

2008

Bronson

Charles Bronson

Tom Hardy

Leonard Chess

Adrien Brody

Muddy Waters

Jeffrey Wright

Etta James

Beyonc Knowles

2008

Cadillac Records

2008

Cass

Cass Pennant

Nonso Anozie

2008

Che: Part I - The Argentine

Che Guevara

Benicio del Toro

2008

Che: Part II - Guerrilla

Che Guevara

Benicio del Toro

2008

Changeling

Christine Collins

Angelina Jolie

2008

Chapter 27

Mark David
Chapman

Jared Leto

Coco Chanel
(elder)

Shirley MacLaine

Coco Chanel
(young)

Barbora Bobulov

Hank Garland

Waylon Payne

Tuvia Bielski

Daniel Craig

Zus Bielski

Liev Schreiber

Ulrike Meinhof

Martina Gedeck

Andreas Baader

Moritz Bleibtreu

Gudrun Ensslin

Johanna Wokalek

2008

Coco Chanel

2008

Crazy

2008

Defiance

2008

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

2008

The Duchess

Georgiana
Cavendish

Keira Knightley

2008

The Easy Way

Albert Spaggiari

Jean-Paul Rouve

2008

The Edge of Love

Dylan Thomas

Matthew Rhys

2008

The Express

Ernie Davis

Rob Brown

2008

Flash of Genius

Robert Kearns

Greg Kinnear

2008

Forever Enthralled

Mei Lanfang

Leon Lai

2008

Front of the Class

Brad Cohen

James Wolk

2008

Frost/Nixon

Richard Nixon

Frank Langella

David Frost

Michael Sheen

2008

Hansie

Hansie Cronje

Frank Rautenbach

Saddam Hussein

yigal Naor

2008
House of Saddam
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Sajida Khairallah
Talfah

Shohreh Aghdashloo

2008

Hunger

Bobby Sands

Michael Fassbender

2008

Il Divo

Giulio Andreotti

Toni Servillo

2008

Ip Man

Yip Man

Donnie Yen

2008

Jodhaa Akbar

Akbar the Great

Hrithik Roshan

Jodhabai

Aishwarya Rai

2008

John Adams

John Adams

Paul Giamatti

Abigail Adams

Laura Linney

2008

The Last Confession of


Alexander Pearce

2008

Little Ashes

Alexander Pearce Ciarn McMenamin


Salvador Dal

Robert Pattinson

Federico Garca
Lorca

Javier Beltrn

2008

Mao's Last Dancer

Li Cunxin

Chi Cao

2008

Max Manus

Max Manus

Aksel Hennie

2008

The Messiah

Jesus

Ahmad Soleimani Nia

2008

Milk

Harvey Milk

Sean Penn

2008

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Jacques Mesrine

Vincent Cassel

2008

Meu Nome No Johnny

Joo Guilherme
Estrella

Selton Mello

2008

The Other Boleyn Girl

Mary Boleyn

Scarlett Johansson

Anne Boleyn

Natalie Portman

2008

Public Enemy Number One

Jacques Mesrine

Vincent Cassel

2008

The Red Baron

Manfred von
Richthofen

Matthias Schweighfer

Zhou Yu

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Zhuge Liang

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Cao Cao

Zhang Fengyi

2008

Red Cliff

2008

Sagan

Franoise Sagan

Sylvie Testud

2008

Sraphine

Sraphine Louis

Yolande Moreau

2008

Skin

Sandra Laing

Sophie Okonedo

2008

Sugar

Miguel Santos

Algenis Perez Soto

2008

Taarka

Hilana Taarka

Inga Salurand

2008

Valkyrie

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Col. Claus von

Tom Cruise

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Valkyrie

Stauffenberg

Tom Cruise

2008

W.

George W. Bush

Josh Brolin

2008

Waltz with Bashir

Ari Folman

Ari Folman (voice)

2008

What We Do Is Secret

Darby Crash

Shane West

2008

Within the Whirlwind

Yevgenia Ginzburg Emily Watson

2009

Agora

Hypatia

2009

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Jeroen Krabb

2009

Amelia

Amelia Earhart

Hilary Swank

2009

An Englishman in New York

Quentin Crisp

John Hurt

2009

The Anna Nicole Smith Story

Anna Nicole Smith Willa Ford

Rachel Weisz

Leigh Anne Tuohy Sandra Bullock


2009

The Blind Side

Sean Tuohy

Tim McGraw

Michael Oher

Quinton Aaron

John Keats

Ben Whishaw

Fanny Brawne

Abbie Cornish

Coco Chanel

Audrey Tautou

Coco Chanel

Anna Mouglalis

Igor Stravinsky

Mads Mikkelsen

2009

Bright Star

2009

Coco Before Chanel

2009

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

2009

Connolly

James Connolly

Peter Mullan

2009

The Consul of Sodom

Jaime Gil de
Biedma

Jordi Moll

2009

The Countess

Countess Elizabeth
Julie Delpy
Bthory

2009

Creation

Charles Darwin

Paul Bettany

2009

Dal & I: The Surreal Story

Salvador Dal

Al Pacino

Stan Lauryssens

Cillian Murphy

2009

Desert Flower

Waris Dirie

Liya Kebede

2009

Fortapsc

Giancarlo Siani

Libero De Rienzo

2009

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson


Story

Ben Carson

Cuba Gooding Jr.

2009

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Joan Allen

2009

Grey Gardens

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Bouvier
Edith Bouvier
Beale

Jessica Lange
Drew Barrymore
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2009

Hilde

Hildegard Knef

Heike Makatsch

2009

The Informant!

Mark Whitacre

Matt Damon

2009

Into the Storm

Winston Churchill Brendan Gleeson

2009

Invictus

2009

John Rabe

2009

Julie & Julia

2009

Nelson Mandela

Morgan Freeman

Franois Pienaar

Matt Damon

John Rabe

Ulrich Tukur

Julie Powell

Amy Adams

Julia Child

Meryl Streep

King Conqueror

Pedro II of
Aragon

Tim Roth

2009

Kerala Varma Pazhassiraja

Pazhassi Raja

Mammootty

2009

The Last Station

Leo Tolstoy

Christopher Plummer

2009

Margaret

Margaret Thatcher Lindsay Duncan

2009

Mata Hari

Mata Hari

Dita Von Teese

2009

Mulan

Hua Mulan

Zhao Wei

Natalee Holloway Amy Gumenick


2009

Natalee Holloway

Beth Twitty

Tracy Pollan

Joran van der


Sloot

Jacques Strydom

2009

Notorious

Christopher
"Notorious B.I.G." Jamal Woolard
Wallace

2009

Nowhere Boy

John Lennon

2009

12 Paces Without a Head

Klaus Strtebeker Ronald Zehrfeld

2009

The Passenger

Iggy Pop

Elijah Wood

2009

Phantom Punch

Sonny Liston

Ving Rhames

2009

Princess Kaiulani

Kaiulani

Q'Orianka Kilcher

John Dillinger

Johnny Depp

Melvin Purvis

Christian Bale

Billie Frechette

Marion Cotillard

2009

Public Enemies

Aaron Johnson

Baby Face Nelson Stephen Graham


2009

Sanctity Within Reach

See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon


Naked for Your Pleasure
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Pier Giorgio
Frassati

Christine M. Wohar

Keith Moon

Mike Myers
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2009

Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Jeroen Krabb

2009

Skin

Sandra Laing

Sophie Okonedo

2009

Soeur Sourire

Jeanine Deckers

Ccile De France

2009

The Soloist

Steve Lopez

Robert Downey, Jr.

Nathaniel Ayers

Jamie Foxx

2009

Telstar

Joe Meek

Con O'Neill

2009

Toussaint

Toussaint
Louverture

Don Cheadle

2009

Van Diemen's Land

Alexander Pearce Oscar Redding

2009

Vincere

2009

Ida Dalser

Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Benito Mussolini

Filippo Timi

Vision - From the Life of


Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von
Bingen

Barbara Sukowa

2009

Wesley

John Wesley

Burgess Jenkins

2009

The Young Victoria

Queen Victoria

Emily Blunt

2009

Zen

Dgen Zenji

Nakamura Kantar II

2010s
Year

Film

Subject(s)

Lead actor or actress

2010

127 Hours

Aron Ralston

James Franco

2010

Angel of Evil

Renato Vallanzasca

Kim Rossi Stuart

2010

Augustine: The Decline of the


Roman Empire

Augustine of Hippo

Franco Nero

2010

Bruce Lee, My Brother

Bruce Lee

Aarif Lee

2010

Carlos

Carlos the Jackal

dgar Ramrez

2010

Casino Jack

Jack Abramoff

Kevin Spacey

2010

Chico Xavier

Chico Xavier

Nelson Xavier

2010

Confucius

Confucius

Chow Yun-fat

2010

Conviction

Betty Anne Waters

Hilary Swank

2010

The Day the Music Died

Buddy Holly

Guy Kent

2010

Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

Julia Roberts

Edith Stein

Maia Morgenstern

2010

Edith Stein: The Seventh


Chamber

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Extraordinary Measures

2010

Fair Game

2010

The Fighter

2010
2010
2010

John Crowley

Brendan Fraser

Valerie Plame

Naomi Watts

Joseph Wilson

Sean Penn

"Irish" Micky Ward

Mark Wahlberg

Dicky Eklund

Christian Bale

The First Grader

Kimani Maruge

Oliver Litondo

Frankie & Alice

Frankie Murdoch

Halle Berry

Serge Gainsbourg

ric Elmosnino

Jane Birkin

Lucy Gordon

Brigitte Bardot

Laetitia Casta

Gainsbourg (Vie hroque)

2010

The Great Vazquez

Manuel Vzquez
Gallego

Santiago Segura

2010

The Hammer

Matt Hamill

Russell Harvard

2010

Howl

Allen Ginsberg

James Franco

2010

I Love You Phillip Morris

Steven Jay Russell

Jim Carrey

Phillip Morris

Ewan McGregor

2010

Ip Man 2

Yip Man

Donnie Yen

2010

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall

Ferdinand Marian

Tobias Moretti

2010

The Kingdom of Solomon

Solomon

Amin Zendegani

King George VI

Colin Firth

Lionel Logue

Geoffrey Rush

Elizabeth BowesLyon

Helena Bonham Carter

2010

The King's Speech

2010

Leonie

Leonie Gilmour

Emily Mortimer

2010

Lope

Lope de Vega

Alberto Ammann

2010

Lula, the son of Brazil

Luiz Incio Lula da


Silva

Rui Ricardo Dias

2010

Mahler on the Couch

Gustav Mahler

Johannes Silberschneider

Alma Mahler

Barbara Romaner

2010

Max Schmeling

Max Schmeling

Henry Maske

2010

Mr. Nice

Howard Marks

Rhys Ifans

2010

Nanga Parbat

Reinhold Messner

Florian Stetter

Gnther Messner

Andreas Tobias

2010

Risen

Howard Winstone

Stuart Brennan

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The Robber

2010

The Runaways

2010

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne


Anne Lister
Lister

2010
2010

2010

Secretariat
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

The Social Network

Johann Rettenberger Andreas Lust


Joan Jett

Kristen Stewart

Cherie Currie

Dakota Fanning
Maxine Peake

Penny Chenery

Diane Lane

Lucien Laurin

John Malkovich

Ian Dury

Andy Serkis

Mark Zuckerberg

Jesse Eisenberg

Eduardo Saverin

Andrew Garfield

Sean Parker

Justin Timberlake

Cameron & Tyler


Winklevoss

Armie Hammer

Bill Clinton

Dennis Quaid

Tony Blair

Michael Sheen

2010

The Special Relationship

2010

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

Claire Danes

2010

Times You Change

Bushido

Elyas M'Barek

2010

Veda

Mustafa Kemal
Atatrk

Sinan Tuzcu

2010

Vision - From the Life of


Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen Barbara Sukowa

2010

When Love Is Not Enough: The


Lois Wilson
Lois Wilson Story

2010

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

Christian
Gerhartsreiter

Eric McCormack

2010

You Don't Know Jack

Jack Kevorkian

Al Pacino

2011

The Amanda Knox Story

Amanda Knox

Hayden Panettiere

2011

Bakhita: From Slave to Saint

Josephine Bakhita

Fatou Kine Boye

Pat Loud

Diane Lane

Bill Loud

Tim Robbins

Lance Loud

Thomas Dekker

Philip Markoff

Jake McDorman

Sigmund Freud

Viggo Mortensen

Carl Gustav Jung

Michael Fassbender

Sabina Spielrein

Keira Knightley

2011

2011
2011

Cinema Verite

The Craigslist Killer


A Dangerous Method

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Winona Ryder

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Sabina Spielrein

Keira Knightley

Einar Wegener / Lili


Elbe

Nicole Kidman

Gerda Wegener

Gwyneth Paltrow

2011

The Devil's Double

Latif Yahia / Uday


Hussein

Dominic Cooper

2011

A Funny Man

Dirch Passer

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

2011

The Grandmasters

Yip Man

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

2011

Heleno

Heleno de Freitas

Rodrigo Santoro

2011

Hr Adam: Bedizzaman Said


Nursi

Said Nurs

Mursit Bag

2011

J. Edgar

J. Edgar Hoover

Leonardo DiCaprio

2011

Jeanne captive

Joan of Arc

Clmence Posy

2011

Juan y Eva

Juan Pern

Osmar Nuez

Eva Pern

Julieta Daz

Natalee Holloway

Amy Gumenick

Beth Holloway

Tracy Pollan

Joran van der Sloot

Stephen Amell

John F. Kennedy

Greg Kinnear

Robert F. Kennedy

Barry Pepper

Jackie Kennedy

Katie Holmes

Joseph P. Kennedy,
Sr.

Tom Wilkinson

2011

2011

Justice for Natalee Holloway

The Kennedys

2011

Killing Pablo

Pablo Escobar

dgar Ramrez

2011

Kill the Irishman

Danny Greene

Ray Stevenson

2011

The Lady

Aung San Suu Kyi

Michelle Yeoh

2011

The Last Ride

Hank Williams

Henry Thomas

2011

The Lost Bladesman

Guan Yu

Donnie Yen

2011

Moneyball

Billy Beane

Brad Pitt

2011

Hugo

Georges Mlis

Ben Kingsley

2011

My Week With Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe

Michelle Williams

2011

The Sky of My Childhood

Nursultan
Nazarbayev

Elzhas Albiyev

2011

Perfect Game

Choi Dong-won

Cho Seung-woo, Sun Dung-ryul, Yang


Dong-geum

2011

Soul Surfer

Bethany Hamilton

AnnaSophia Robb

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Bethany Hamilton

AnnaSophia Robb

Tatsumi

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Yoshihiro Tatsumi

2011

Kaze no Shounen

Yutaka Ozaki

Hiroki Narimiya

2011

Violeta

Violeta Parra

2011

We Bought a Zoo

Benjamin Mee

Matt Damon

2011

Winnie

Winnie Mandela

Jennifer Hudson

Nelson Mandela

Terrence Howard

2011

William & Kate

Prince William

Nico Evers-Swindell

2012

Abducted : The Carlina White


Story

Carlina White

Keke Palmer

2012

Argo

Tony Mendez

Ben Affleck

2012

Blonde

Marilyn Monroe

Naomi Watts

2012

Florbela

Florbela Espanca

Dalila Carmo

2012

The Girl

Alfred Hitchcock

Toby Jones

2012

Game Change

Sarah Palin

Julianne Moore

John McCain

Ed Harris

2012

Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Anthony Hopkins

Hyde Park on Hudson

Franklin Delano
Roosevelt

Bill Murray

Margaret Suckley

Laura Linney

Jack Bondaurant

Shia Labeouf

Forest Bondaurant

Tom Hardy

2012

2012

Lawless

Francisca Gaviln

Catherine Middleton Camilla Luddington

Howard Bondaurant Jason Clarke


2012

The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher

Meryl Streep

2012

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Daniel Day-Lewis

2013

Betty and Coretta

Betty Shabazz

Mary J. Blige

Coretta Scott King

Angela Bassett

2013

Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie Parker

Holliday Grainger

Clyde Barrow

Emile Hirsch

2013

Liz & Dick

Elizabeth Taylor

Lindsay Lohan

Richard Burton

Grant Bowler

2012

Sri Ramakrishna Darshanam

Ramakrishna

2012

Amen (India)

Harish Iyer [1]

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Jackie Robinson

Chadwick Boseman

Branch Rickey

Harrison Ford

One In A Million: The Aaliyah


Story

Aaliyah Haughton

Keisha Chante

2013

Kill Your Darlings

Allen Ginsberg

Daniel Radcliffe[3]

2013

Crossface[4][5]

Chris Benoit

TBA

Tionne Watkins

Drew Sidora

2013

Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC


Story

Lisa Lopes

Lil Mama

Rozonda Thomas

Keke Palmer

2013

42

2014

2013

Big Sur

Jack Kerouac

Jean-Marc Barr

2013

Diana

Diana, Princess of
Wales

Naomi Watts

2013

Celluloid

J. C. Daniel

Prithviraj Sukumaran

2013

Emperor

Douglas MacArthur

Tommy Lee Jones

2013

The Grandmaster

Yip Man

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

2013

Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story Linda Lovelace

Malin kerman

2013

Jobs

Steve Jobs

Ashton Kutcher

2013

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Milkha Singh

Farhan Akhtar

2013

The Conjuring

Lorraine Warren

Vera Farmiga

Ed Warren

Patrick Wilson

2013

Lovelace

Linda Lovelace

Amanda Seyfried

Chuck Traynor

Peter Sarsgaard

2013

Behind the Candelabra

Liberace

Michael Douglas

2013

Romeo Killer : The Chris Porco Christopher Porco


Story
Joe Sullivan

2013

Saving Mr. Banks

2013

Matt Barr
Eric McCormack

P.L. Travers

Emma Thompson

Walt Disney

Tom Hanks

Desert Dancer

Afshin Ghaffarian

Reece Ritchie

2013

Rush : Every one is driven by


something

James Hunt and Niki


Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brhl
Lauda

2013

The Butler

Cecil Gaines

Forest Whitaker|

2013

Mandela: Long Walk to


Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Idris Elba

2013

The Wolf of Wall Street

Jordan Belfort

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Foxcatcher

John Eleuthre du
Pont

Steve Carell

Mark Schultz

Channing Tatum

Dave Schultz

Mark Ruffalo

2014

Get On Up

James Brown

Chadwick Boseman

2014

Mr. Turner

J.M.W. Turner

Timothy Spall

2014

Unbroken

Louis Zamperini

Jack O'Connell

2014

The Gabby Douglas Story

Gabby Douglas

Sydney Mikayla(712 years old) and Imani


Hakim (1316 years old)

2014

Getlio

Getlio Vargas

Tony Ramos

2014

Mercury

Freddie Mercury

Ben Whishaw

2014

Loomis Fargo

David Scott Ghantt

Zach Galifinakis

2014

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe

Lizzie Borden

Christina Ricci

TBA

TBA

John Belushi

Emile Hirsch

TBA

TBA

Whitney Houston

TBA

TBA

Stop Snitchin

William King and


Antonio Murray

TBA

TBA

The Dirt

Mtley Cre

TBA

TBA

The Fifth Beatle

Brian Epstein

TBA

TBA

The Story of Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss

Johnny Depp

TBA

Tupac

Tupac Shakur

TBA

TBA

The Last Train to Memphis

Elvis Presley

TBA

TBA

TBA

Josephine Baker

Rihanna

See also
List of composers depicted on film

References
1. ^ Film (2012-02-24). "Amen - A Gay Activist's Life on 70mm"
(http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_amen-a-gay-rights-activists-life-on-70mm_1654239). DNA
newspaper www.dnaindia.com.
2. ^ Film (2012-10-23). "Karan Mehra bases his role as a homosexual on activist Harish Iyer" (http://www.midday.com/entertainment/2012/oct/231012-Karan-Mehra-bases-his-role-as-a-homosexual-on-activist-HarishIyer.htm). Mid-Day newspaper www.mid-day.com.
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3. ^ Film (2012). "IMDB page of Kill Your Darlings" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311071/). IMDB


www.imdb.com.
4. ^ Film (2011-12-03). "WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit Film Biopic CROSSFACE To Re-Tell Tragedy"
(http://whatculture.com/film/wwe-wrestler-chris-benoit-film-biopic-crossface-to-re-tell-tragedy.php).
Whatculture.com. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
5. ^ Crossface (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2102498/) at the Internet Movie Database

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