Official Biopic on Blu-ray Thread

[MifuneFan]

I like the occasional biopic, so I figured I'd create a centralized thread to help people find all the ones available on Blu-ray. This is obviously a work in progress, as there are several of them out there. I greatly appreciate everyone making suggestions! For right now, this list will focus on just N.A. releases, but I will list the occasional international title if it's the only one available.

I figure the best way to format this is the list the name of the person(s) and then list all the biopics about them to the right of it. I'm open to other formatting ideas though.

Frank Abagnale - Catch Me If You Can
John Adams - John Adams (HBO mini-series)
Muhammad Ali - Ali (Germany)
Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
Marie Antoinette - Marie Antoinette
Julian Assange - The Fifth Estate
Gladys Aylward - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street
Billy Beane -Moneybal
Anne and Mary Boleyn - The Other Boleyn Girl
Jim Braddock - Cinderella Man
Charles Bronson (not the actor) - Bronson
George W. Bush - W.
Truman Capote - Capote
Rubin Carter - The Hurricane
Johnny Cash - Walk the Line
Georgiana Cavendish - The Duchess
Coco Chanel - Coco Before Chanel / Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Charlie Chaplin - Chaplin
Ray Charles - Ray
Cesar Chavez - Cesar Chavez
Julia Child - Julie and Julia
Désirée Clary - Désirée
Cleopatra - Cleopatra
Brian Clough - The Damned United
Ian Curtis (Joy Division) - Control (2007)
Ernie Davis - The Express
John Dillinger - Public Enemies
Walt Disney - Saving Mr. Banks
Amelia Earhart - Amelia
Queen Elizabeth I - Elizabeth / Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Queen Elizabeth II - The Queen
Robert Ford -The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Cecil Gaines - Lee Daniels' The Butler
Mahatma Gandhi -Gandhi
Christopher Gardner - The Pursuit of Happyness
Jim Garrison - JFK
King George VI - The King's Speech
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love
Allen Ginsberg - Kill Your Darlings
Che Guevara - Che
Bethany Hamilton - Soul Surfer
Domino Harvey - Domino
Alfred Hitchcock - Hitchcock
Adolf Hitler - Downfall (UK)
Alexander the Great - Alexander
Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Story
J. Edgar Hoover - J. Edgar
Howard Hughes - The Aviator
James Hunt - Rush
Jesse James - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Steve Jobs - Jobs
Andy Kaufman - Man on the Moon (Nordic)
Ned Kelly - Ned Kelly (UK)
Genghis Khan - Mongol
Ron Kovic - Born on the Fourth of July
Jake LaMotta - Raging Bull
Niki Lauda - Rush
T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia
Liberace - Behind the Candelabra
Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln
Linda Lovelace - Lovelace
Frank Lucas - American Gangster
Douglas MacArthur - Emperor
Malcolm X - Malcolm X
Nelson Mandela - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Roger Maris - 61*
Christopher McCandless - Into the Wild
Benjamin Mee - We Bought a Zoo
Georges Méliès - Hugo
Tony Mendez - Argo
Harvey Milk - Milk
Musashi Miyamoto - The Samurai Trilogy
Burt Monroe - The World's Fastest Indian[
Marilyn Monroe - My Week with Marilyn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Amadeus
Hua Mulan - Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
Edward R. Murrow - Good Night, and Good Luck
John Nash - A Beautiful Mind
Richard Nixon - Nixon
Solomon Northup - 12 Years a Slave
Michael Oher - The Blind Side
George S. Patton - Patton
Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose (UK)
Capt. Richard Phillips - Captain Phillips
Pocahontas - The New World
Cole Porter - De-Lovely
Beatrix Potter - Miss Potter (Germany)
Julie Powell - Julie and Julia
Aron Ralston - 127 Hours
Richard III - Richard III
Jackie Robinson - 42
Rudy Ruettiger - Rudy
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (aka Carlos the Jackal) - Carlos
Frank Serpico - Serpico
Oscar Schindler - Schindler's List
John Smith - The New World
Spartacus - Spartacus
Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady
Leo Tolstoy - The Last Station
P.L. Travers - Saving Mr. Banks
Vincent Van Gogh - Van Gogh (UK)
Christopher Wallace (aka Notorious B.I.G.) - Notorious
William Wallace - Braveheart
Mickey "Irish" Ward - The Fighter
Lorraine and Ed Warren - The Conjuring
Charlie Wilson - Charlie Wilson's War (UK)
Ed Wood - Ed Wood
Aileen Wuornos - Monster
Pu Yi - The Last Emperor
Yip Man (aka Ip Man) - Ip Man 1 and 2 /Ip Man: The Final Fight / The Grandmaster
Emiliano Zapata - Viva Zapata!
Mark Zuckerberg - The Social Network

way more being added, please be patient!

[MifuneFan]

Group / Ensemble Biopics

[MifuneFan]

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[HD Goofnut]

The Wolf of Wall Street
Rush
Captain Phillips
Saving Mr. Banks
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
42
Moneyball
Into the Wild
A Beautiful Mind
Cinderella Man
Blind Side, The
Catch Me if you Can
Argo
Searching for Sugar Man
Ben-Hur
Ten Commandments
Bloodsport
The World's Fastest Indian
The Invisible Woman
The Social Network
Braveheart
The Impossible
Ip Man
Troy
Cleopatra
12 Years a Slave

I'll have more later.

[Scottie]

Nice thread idea! Here is a full list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biographical_films

[Talzin78]

The Doors
Domino(??)
Rush
Valkyrie
Jobs
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (??)
Devil's Knot
Man on the Moon

I think JFK is not about JFK but about the DA

[filmmusic]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

The Wolf of Wall Street
Rush
Captain Phillips
Saving Mr. Banks
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
42
Moneyball
Into the Wild
A Beautiful Mind
Cinderella Man
Blind Side, The
Catch Me if you Can
Argo
Searching for Sugar Man
Ben-Hur
Ten Commandments
Bloodsport
The World's Fastest Indian
The Invisible Woman
The Social Network
Braveheart
The Impossible
Ip Man
Troy
Cleopatra
12 Years a Slave

I'll have more later.

I'm not sure if Ben-Hur and 10 commandments (or Troy) could be considered as biopic films!
I think biopic is about persons that are historically confirmed to have lived!


Also, i'm not sure if the original poster is interested in partly-imaginary biopics.
If yes then I would add Amadeus and Immortal beloved.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Nixon. Not sure how accurate it might be, but it's entertaining.

[jd_from_da_80s]

Insert Abe Lincoln vampire & zombie movie jokes here

[thebard]

Sorry if any are repeats:

127 Hours
Amistad
Apollo 13
The Aviator
Braveheart (very inaccurate)
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (ditto)
Captain Phillips
Chaplin
Cleopatra
The Last Emperor
The Right Stuff
Saving Mr. Banks

[Al_The_Strange]

Since Ip Man was mentioned (and there are four of those suckers now), would The Grandmaster count as well?

Other good ones I can think of are Mesrine, Persepolis, and Chaplin.

Originally Posted by jd_from_da_80s

Insert Abe Lincoln vampire & zombie movie jokes here

Hey now, I believe everything in that movie is plausible.

[filmmusic]

Born on the 4th of July
La Vie En Rose (excellent biopic but doesn't have US release)
Raging Bull
Gandhi

[jradford]

Cesar Chavez - Cesar Chavez
Bethany Hamilton - Soul Surfer
Michael Oher - The Blind Side
Ernie Davis - The Express
Rubin Carter - The Hurricane
Roger Maris - *61
Brian Clough - The Damned United
Rudy Ruettiger - Rudy
Burt Monroe - The World's Fastest Indian

[MifuneFan]

Thanks so much for the suggestions, and keep 'em coming . I've added quite a bit so far, but I'm still going throuh lists and adding things.

I think I'll eventually break up the list into catagories to make it easier to sort and such. Like Politics Sports, Entertainers, etc..

[HD Goofnut]

Ken Burns: The Roosevelts
The Impossible
The King's Speech
The Men Who Built America
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Aviator
Goodfellas
Evita
The Iceman
Chasing Mavericks
Rudy
Lovelace
Papillon
King of Kings
Invincible
Frida
Stars and Stripes Forever
Erin Brockovich
Elizabeth
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Ed Wood
For No Good Reason
Born on the Fourth of July
Milk
All the President's Men
The Express
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Queen
The Intouchables
The Iron Lady
Wyatt Earp
Jobs

[moviebuff75]

Loretta Lynn-Coal Miner's Daughter

[baheidstu]

How "in-depth" does the biopic need to be for inclusion? I'm just asking because The Wind and the Lion contains some key events in the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt for example, but it's not really "about" him.

[Talzin78]

Jim Morrison-The Doors
Domino Harvey-Domino(??)
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg-Valkyrie
Chuck Barris-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (??)
Pamela Hobbs-Devil's Knot
Andy Kauffman-Man on the Moon
Robert Ford-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Jim Garrison-JFK (not a biopic of JFK but Garrisons obsession over the asassination)

[thebard]

Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Story
John Smith/Pocahontas - The New World
Anne Boleyn - The Other Boleyn Girl
Oscar Schindler - Schindler's List
Spartacus - Spartacus
Jim Lovell - Apollo 13
Robert LeRoy Parker/Harry Longabaugh - Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Chuck Yeager/Mercury 7 astronauts - The Right Stuff