Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Made viewers cry in theaters. The production combines archival footage from the program with new interviews and exploration of Rogers's larger cultural significance.
Genre: Biopic
Films about real lives, reviewed by a ghostwriter who tells real life stories for a living. The best biopics shape truth without betraying it, and these reviews watch for exactly that line.
BiopicBohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Bryan Singer's 2018 Freddie Mercury biopic. Queen's Live Aid recreation.
BiopicThe Theory of Everything (2014)
James Marsh's 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor.
BiopicCapote (2005)
Bennett Miller's 2005 Truman Capote biopic. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor.
BiopicOppenheimer (2023)
Christopher Nolan's 2023 Manhattan Project biopic. Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer.
BiopicWalk the Line (2005)
James Mangold's 2005 Johnny Cash biopic. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Cash and June Carter.
BiopicGandhi (1982)
Richard Attenborough's 1982 Gandhi biopic. Three-hour epic of nonviolent resistance.
BiopicSchindler’s List (1993)
Spielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Fiennes as Goeth.
BiopicThe Social Network (2010)
David Fincher's 2010 Facebook origin drama. Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, Garfield as Saverin.
BiopicSomething the Lord Made (2004)
Joseph Sargent's 2004 HBO film. Alan Rickman as Dr. Alfred Blalock, Mos Def as Vivien Thomas.
BiopicAwakenings (1990)
Penny Marshall's 1990 Oliver Sacks biopic. Robin Williams as the doctor, De Niro as encephalitic patient.
BiopicReds (1981)
Warren Beatty's 1981 John Reed biopic. American journalist who covered the Russian Revolution.