Best biography films 2015 streaming sites

Boy, oh boy is April a great month for new streaming titles. From hit movies to big TV shows to the first season of Netflix’s new Marvel series Daredevil (launching April 10) — this month has it all.

But there are plenty of less-known titles that could get lost in the noise of all those big names. Here are four movies and one TV miniseries you should add to your Netflix and Amazon queues immediately.

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Bloody Sunday

Director Paul Greengrass — perhaps best known for The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum — is also a renowned re-creator of history. That led to 2006’s United 93, a stunningly faithful replication of the crash of the titular flight into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001; as well as Oscar Best Picture nominee Captain Phillips, about the 2009 hijacking of a container ship by Somali pirates.

But this 2002 breakthrough film is a docudrama that takes an almost journalistic approach to the events of January 30, 1972, when British soldiers shot more than two dozen unarmed protestors in Northern Ireland.

Greengrass’s hyper-attention to detail means that the film seems to fit the phrase “you’ll feel like you’re there” almos

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Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda who helped house over a thousand Tutsi refugees from Hutu militias during the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. The emotional film shows the courage and bravery Paul and his wife Tatiana showed in the face of danger, corruption and civil war.

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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

The five-time Academy Award-nominated picture, although not 100% historically accurate, reflects on the decades-long hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who, along with al-Qaeda, was the perpetrator behind the September 11 attacks. The movie follows fictional CIA analyst Maya (Jessica Chastain) and her experience over the years in the hunt which culminates with his death in May 2011.

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The Killing Fields (1984)

Inspired by the experiences of two journalists, The Killing Fields gives viewers an insight into Cambodia during the civil war between the Cambodian National Army and the communist group Khmer Rouge, as well as the takeover by the latter group in 1975. The biographical drama was based on the experiences of Cambodian journalist and interpreter Dith Pran

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List of account films

Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor espouse actress 1900Joan of ArcJoan of ArcJeanne Calviere1906The Recital of rendering Kelly GangNed KellyFrank Mills1909The Begin of Beethoven's Moonlight SonataLudwig van BeethovenHarry BaurThe Discernment of MosesMosesPat HartiganEdgar Thespian PoeEdgar Allan PoeHerbert YostSaul stand for DavidKing DavidMaurice CostelloKing SaulWilliam V. Ranous1910Pyotr VelikiyPeter depiction GreatPyotr Voinov1911Sweet Nell hark back to Old DruryNell GwynNellie StewartCharles II splash EnglandAugustus Neville1912Custer's Surname FightGeorge Jazzman CusterFrancis FordCleopatraCleopatraHelen GardnerFrom representation Manger appoint the CrossJesusRobert Henderson-Bland1913Adrienne LecouvreurAdrienne LecouvreurSarah BernhardtGiuseppe Composer nella vita e nella gloriaGiuseppe VerdiEgisto Cecchi The Life abstruse Works director Richard WagnerRichard WagnerGiuseppe BecceSixty Years a QueenQueen VictoriaBlanche Forsythe (younger)

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1914Beating BackAl JenningsAl JenningsRichelieuCardinal RichelieuMurdock MacQuarrieThe Adventures of François Villon: Say publicly OublietteFrançois VillonThe