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1. Oslo (2021 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller

54 Metascore

Recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Director: Bartlett Sher | Stars: Ruth Wilson, Jeff Wilbusch, Andrew Scott, Karel Dobrý

Votes: 5,482

2. Danny Boy (2021 TV Movie)

84 min | Drama

Follows Brian Wood who is humbled when he is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner.

Director: Sam Miller | Stars: Anthony Boyle, Toby Jones, Leah McNamara, Alex Ferns

Votes: 477

3. The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (2020 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Drama

Details the humble beginnings, struggles to find their place, to later becoming the best-selling Gospel group in the music world.

Director: Christine Swanson | Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Raven Goodwin, Ronnie Rowe, Demore Barnes

Votes: 772

4. Love You To Death (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Drama

A mother and daughter's tumultuous relationship turns fatal. Inspired by the story of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

Director: Alex Kalymnios | Stars: Emily Skeggs, Marcia Gay Harden, Brennan Keel Cook, Kayla Deorksen

Votes: 1,232

5. Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Thriller

A young journalist looks behind the curtain of a nearby mental hospital, only to uncover the grim and gruesome acts they bestow upon their "patients".

Director: Karen Moncrieff | Stars: Christina Ricci, Judith Light, Josh Bowman, Anja Savcic

Votes: 1,962

6. Brexit (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman, Lucy Russell

Votes: 17,749

7. My Dinner with Hervé (2018 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 110 min | Biography, Drama

A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit '70s TV series Fantasy Island (1977), who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50.

Director: Sacha Gervasi | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Jamie Dornan, Frida Munting, Harriet Walter

Votes: 6,668

8. Paterno (2018 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno becomes embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Al Pacino, Kathy Baker, Kenneth Maharaj, Michael Mastro

Votes: 7,588

9. Cocaine Godmother (2017 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the time she was a young girl to the end of her life.

Director: Guillermo Navarro | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jenny Pellicer, Alejandro Edda, Warren Christie

Votes: 2,680

10. The Wizard of Lies (2017 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alessandro Nivola, Nathan Darrow

Votes: 28,663

11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney, Karen Wheeling Reynolds

Votes: 3,989

12. All the Way (2016 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History

Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo, Frank Langella

Votes: 15,244

13. Confirmation (2016 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her.

Director: Rick Famuyiwa | Stars: Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright

Votes: 5,602

14. Churchill's Secret (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History

British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, Lindsay Duncan, Daisy Lewis

Votes: 1,556

15. The Gamechangers (2015 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 90 min | Biography, Drama

The struggle of Houser's legal feud against American lawyer Jack Thompson, over the morality of the Grand Theft Auto video game series.

Director: Owen Harris | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Bill Paxton, Ryan Gage, Joe Dempsie

Votes: 2,624

16. A Deadly Adoption (2015 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 84 min | Drama, Thriller

A distanced couple decide to take in a seemingly innocent pregnant woman in hopes of adopting her unborn child. However, there is more to a book than its cover.

Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg | Stars: Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Jessica Lowndes, Alyvia Alyn Lind

Votes: 3,768

17. Bessie (2015 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Queen Latifah, Kamryn Johnson, Rikki McKinney, Alan T. Coleman

Votes: 4,791

18. Beautiful & Twisted (2015 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.

Director: Christopher Zalla | Stars: Rob Lowe, Paz Vega, Candice Bergen, Seychelle Gabriel

Votes: 2,055

19. The Eichmann Show (2015 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama, History

Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman

Votes: 5,063

20. The Normal Heart (2014 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Frank De Julio, William DeMeritt

Votes: 37,795

21. Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.

Director: Nick Gomez | Stars: Christina Ricci, Clea DuVall, Gregg Henry, Stephen McHattie

Votes: 5,642

22. Burton and Taylor (2013 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 83 min | Biography, Drama

Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Dominic West, Helena Bonham Carter, Greg Hicks, Jeff Mash

Votes: 2,540

23. Anna Nicole (2013 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 85 min | Biography, Drama

The life of Anna Nicole Smith, from small-town dancer to Playboy centerfold, to her marriage to a billionaire, to her eventual self-destruction.

Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Martin Landau, Adam Goldberg, Graham Patrick Martin

Votes: 2,316

24. Phil Spector (2013 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 92 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Votes: 7,924

25. The Challenger Disaster (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, History

Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 disintegration.

Director: James Hawes | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Eve Best, Bruce Greenwood, William Hurt

Votes: 4,591

26. The Girl (2012 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 91 min | Biography, Drama

The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller).

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Sienna Miller, Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton, Conrad Kemp

Votes: 7,207

27. Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 155 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 10,417

28. Game Change (2012 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Peter MacNicol

Votes: 23,211

29. Have a Little Faith (2011 TV Movie)

PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama

Writer Mitch Alboms reluctantly agrees to pen the eulogy of his childhood rabbi.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Bradley Whitford, Anika Noni Rose, Mykelti Williamson

Votes: 588

30. Too Big to Fail (2011 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly

Votes: 19,096

31. Thurgood (2011 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

Prior to his appointment to United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall worked as a lawyer for the NAACP. This one man play tells the story of his role in the civil rights movement and the people that influenced him.

Director: Michael Stevens | Star: Laurence Fishburne

Votes: 590

32. Toast (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

57 Metascore

The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain.

Director: S.J. Clarkson | Stars: Oscar Kennedy, Victoria Hamilton, Colin Prockter, Ken Stott

Votes: 10,463

33. First Light (2010 TV Movie)

75 min | Biography, Drama, War

In May 1940 eighteen-year old Geoffrey Wellum joins the 92 squadron of the Royal Air Force and is taken to the pub,where pilots who have seen action sign their names on a blackboard. Next ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Whiteman | Stars: Sam Heughan, Gary Lewis, Ben Aldridge, Alex Robertson

Votes: 822

34. The Special Relationship (2010 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Michael Sheen, Demetri Goritsas, Adam Godley, Marc Rioufol

Votes: 4,991

35. When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (2010 TV Movie)

PG | 92 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Winona Ryder, Barry Pepper, John Bourgeois, Rosemary Dunsmore

Votes: 1,221

36. You Don't Know Jack (2010 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 134 min | Biography, Drama

A look at the life and work of doctor-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Al Pacino, Brenda Vaccaro, John Goodman, Deirdre O'Connell

Votes: 30,351

37. Temple Grandin (2010 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara

Votes: 32,581

38. Mrs Mandela (2010 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

It traces the transformation of Winnie Mandela from a naïve rural girl to a fierce anti-apartheid activist.

Director: Michael Samuels | Stars: Sophie Okonedo, David Harewood, David Morrissey, Vusi Kunene

Votes: 185

39. The Wronged Man (2010 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 85 min | Biography, Drama

Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a ... See full summary »

Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Julia Ormond, Mahershala Ali, Lisa Arrindell, Bruce McKinnon

Votes: 1,392

40. Enid (2009 TV Movie)

82 min | Biography, Drama

Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. While training as a teacher after the Great ... See full summary »

Director: James Hawes | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook

Votes: 1,672

41. Georgia O'Keeffe (2009 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Ed Begley Jr., Kathleen Chalfant

Votes: 965

42. Breaking the Mould (2009 TV Movie)

80 min | Drama, History

A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology

Director: Peter Hoar | Stars: Dominic West, Denis Lawson, Oliver Dimsdale, Joe Armstrong

Votes: 325

43. Into the Storm (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm (2002), Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough, Jack Shepherd

Votes: 5,864

44. The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.

Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka

Votes: 4,660

45. Grey Gardens (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 104 min | Biography, Drama

The lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Director: Michael Sucsy | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ken Howard

Votes: 11,215

46. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Alora Adams

Votes: 15,905

47. Prayers for Bobby (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

True story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley, Austin Nichols

Votes: 17,957

48. Taking Chance (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 77 min | Drama, War

Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.

Director: Ross Katz | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Tom Aldredge, Nicholas Art, Blanche Baker

Votes: 14,778

49. Einstein and Eddington (2008 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History

Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.

Director: Philip Martin | Stars: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Benjamin Uttley

Votes: 7,638

50. Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 84 min | Biography, Drama

In the 1950s, Margaret Thatcher works as a research chemist, begins her attempts to be selected for Parliament and meets her future husband Denis Thatcher.

Director: Niall MacCormick | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Philip Jackson, Michael Gould, Jonathan Aris

Votes: 452

51. Recount (2008 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 116 min | Drama, History

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Denis Leary, Ed Begley Jr.

Votes: 13,601

52. My Boy Jack (2007 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.

Director: Brian Kirk | Stars: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall, Carey Mulligan

Votes: 5,657

53. Sybil (2007 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Biography, Drama

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Jessica Lange, Tammy Blanchard, Ron White, JoBeth Williams

Votes: 1,762

54. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 133 min | Drama, History, Western

A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west.

Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin

Votes: 7,440

55. Walkout (2006 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 110 min | Drama

A teacher becomes a mentor to Chicano high-school students protesting injustices in schools in 1968.

Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Michael Peña, Yancey Arias, Laura Harring

Votes: 1,574

56. Flight 93 (2006 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, History, Thriller

Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Jeffrey Nordling, Brennan Elliott, Kendall Cross, Ty Olsson

Votes: 9,910

57. The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes books. The film shows us how Doyle came up with the idea of the 'super detective' and how he uses the techniques of his ... See full summary »

Director: Cilla Ware | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Tim McInnerny, Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 287

58. Our Fathers (2005 TV Movie)

R | 130 min | Drama

A dramatized account of the hidden sexual abuse and scandal that shook the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the characters, events, and policies that brought the abuse and scandal into existence.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ted Danson, Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy, Daniel Baldwin

Votes: 573

59. Elvis (2005)

TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley, from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rose McGowan, Randy Quaid, Tim Guinee

Votes: 4,190

60. Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama

The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson

Votes: 3,325

61. Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 140 min | Drama, History, War

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete, Oris Erhuero

Votes: 6,045

62. A Bear Named Winnie (2004 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Drama, War

The extraordinary veritable story of the black bear who would become the inspiration for the stories of A.A. Milne, and the heroic man who saved her life.

Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Gil Bellows, David Suchet, Stephen Fry

Votes: 1,199

63. 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004 TV Movie)

92 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

Barry Pepper portrays legendary race car drive Dale Earnhardt, who died in 2001 during the last lap of the Daytona 500.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Barry Pepper, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ernest Whitted, Andrea Powell

Votes: 1,735

64. Something the Lord Made (2004 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Cliff McMullen, Yasiin Bey, Luray Cooper, Alan Rickman

Votes: 15,366

65. Hawking (2004 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).

Director: Philip Martin | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins, Christian Rubeck

Votes: 6,361

66. Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 205 min | Drama, History

Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Vulpe Adrian, Carmen Ungureanu, Clémence Poésy, Tadeusz Pasternak

Votes: 1,925

67. Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Drama, Crime

The story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, the former leader of the "Crips" gang. Stan wrote award-winning children's books, brokered peace treaties between warring gangs, and won a Nobel Peace Prize nomination before he was executed.

Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young, Brenden Jefferson

Votes: 3,220

68. Iron Jawed Angels (2004 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.

Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor

Votes: 6,428

69. The Lion in Winter (2003 TV Movie)

167 min | Drama, History, Romance

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Andrew Howard

Votes: 2,392

70. The Deal (2003 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

Follows the rise to power of Tony Blair, and his friendship and rivalry with his contemporary, Gordon Brown.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: David Morrissey, Matt Blair, Michael Sheen, Dexter Fletcher

Votes: 1,481

71. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 3,624

72. Ice Bound (2003 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama

One woman's strength and courage under the most extreme weather conditions.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine, Cynthia Mace, Paulino Nunes

Votes: 601

73. The Pentagon Papers (2003 TV Movie)

R | 99 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Defense worker Daniel Ellsberg seeks to publish a series of classified government documents detailing the true nature of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: James Spader, Claire Forlani, Paul Giamatti, Alan Arkin

Votes: 1,542

74. Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002 TV Movie)

R | 200 min | Biography, Drama

True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and said mole.

Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: William Hurt, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Ron Silver

Votes: 434

75. Copenhagen (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, War

A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the... See full summary »

Director: Howard Davies | Stars: Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, Francesca Annis

Votes: 1,137

76. Last Call (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Drama

Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant and protege who later wrote a memoir of their time together.

Director: Henry Bromell | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek, Shannon Lawson

Votes: 987

77. Path to War (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 165 min | Biography, Drama, War

In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill

Votes: 4,115

78. Crossed Over (2002 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the book "Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir," this is the true story of the deep and healing friendship between a grieving mother, Beverly Lowry (Diane Keaton), and death row inmate, Karla Faye Tucker (Jennifer Jason Leigh).

Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Diane Keaton, Maury Chaykin, Nick Roth, Karl Pruner

Votes: 453

79. The Rosa Parks Story (2002 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 97 min | Biography, Drama

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Tonea Stewart, Von Coulter

Votes: 1,024

80. The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Director: Moisés Kaufman | Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant, Laura Linney

Votes: 6,958

81. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War

Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight

Votes: 5,122

82. James Dean (2001 TV Movie)

PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama

The man behind the legend and 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Franco, Michael Moriarty, Valentina Cervi, Enrico Colantoni

Votes: 5,728

83. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover

Votes: 24,817

84. 61* (2001 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

Director: Billy Crystal | Stars: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur

Votes: 17,650

85. When Billie Beat Bobby (2001 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs (Ron Silver) and young feminist Billie Jean King (Holly Hunter).

Director: Jane Anderson | Stars: Holly Hunter, Ron Silver, Matt Letscher, Bob Gunton

Votes: 644

86. The Crossing (2000 TV Movie)

89 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton.

Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roché, Steven McCarthy

Votes: 2,192

87. RKO 281 (1999 TV Movie)

R | 86 min | Biography, Drama

Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich

Votes: 6,503

88. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Dorothy Dandridge's way to fame and fortune as a dancer, singer and actress.

Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé

Votes: 3,920

89. Vendetta (1999 TV Movie)

R | 117 min | Drama, History

Based on a true tale of power, corruption and murder, Christopher Walken stars in the story of the largest lynching in American history...

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Christopher Walken, Luke Askew, Clancy Brown, Alessandro Colla

Votes: 1,309

90. Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History

History of Apple and Microsoft.

Director: Martyn Burke | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Hertzler

Votes: 25,246

91. Winchell (1998 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 631

92. Houdini (1998 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.

Director: Pen Densham | Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Stacy Edwards, Paul Sorvino, Rhea Perlman

Votes: 518

93. The Rat Pack (1998 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

The public and private lives of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus Macfadyen

Votes: 3,232

94. A Bright Shining Lie (1998 TV Movie)

R | 118 min | Drama, War

True story of Army man John Paul Vann, whose military success provided him the fulfillment he never found in his personal life.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Bill Paxton, Bo Eason, William L. Mansey, Karina Logue

Votes: 1,547

95. Gia (1998 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of the life of Gia Carangi, a top fashion model from the late 1970s, from her meteoric rise to the forefront of the modeling industry, to her untimely death.

Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl

Votes: 50,285

96. Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the ... See full summary »

Director: Eriq La Salle | Stars: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach, Ronny Cox

Votes: 3,150

97. The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History, War

The story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Laufer

Votes: 802

98. Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996 TV Movie)

R | 139 min | Biography, Drama

This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her superstar pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Ashley Judd, Mira Sorvino, Josh Charles, Ron Rifkin

Votes: 2,815

99. The Tuskegee Airmen (1995 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, History, War

The true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II.

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 7,086

100. Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995 TV Movie)

R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller

Lawyers and the media argue the alleged child abuse at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Lolita Davidovich, Sada Thompson

Votes: 4,182



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