2001 biographical drama films

A Beautiful Mind

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 8.2

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

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Taking Sides

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.1

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazificatio...

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Boycott

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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An American Rhapsody

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States...

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Ali

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.7

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with...

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Bojangles

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.7

The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his genera...

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Mad Love

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

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Piñero

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.2

"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in h...

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