I’ll admit, biopics and the like just aren’t my thing for a lot of reasons so we’re going to expand on this question just a little bit from what the original list asks. Instead of just focusing on biopics themselves, which can often be quite distorted from reality or lose a lot of key information, we’re going to include documentary biographies as well that saw a theatrical release.
While there are several people whose lives I’d enjoy watching being documented and talked about, the one that made the biggest impact on me in a way was the Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Like a lot of younger movie fans from back in the day, you knew her name through a joke in Blazing Saddles but you may not have known to really go and look for more unless you had someone fill you in on the joke, which I didn’t. Discovering Lamarr’s work later and then seeing this feature, which in turn had me looking for more of her work that I had missed and seeing it in a new context was definitely a game-changer for me.
What’s your favorite biopic or biographical documentary film on someone?
