Autobiography Movies

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny and Cher during the early 60's to their messy...

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector...

On May 22, 1980, Michael Sinclair Walter was in a near fatal car accident in Redondo Beach, California. In a coma, paralyzed, blind in one eye, and...

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation...

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic...

12 minuted video on youtube about last moments of the celebrated actress Soad Hosny.

An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her fathers' features.

The lives of millions of Christians around the world have been changed through the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. But how much do those of us...

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank...

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography...

We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal retelling of the Orpheus tale suffused with...

This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally...

Holger Diekmann was a singer, bass player, and drummer in multiple local bands throughout his short life. Filmmaker Jonas Helmerichs sets out to...

A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.

unravels the hidden struggles between mothers and daughters across generations.