Mike Wallace Is Here (2019), Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012), Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010), The Country Girl (1954), Tyson (2008), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001), Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Career movies.
Storyline: This documentary follows Troy Duffy, a brash, foul-mouthed bartender whose screenplay for an action film called "Boondock Saints" scores him a generous contract to write and direct the film for Harvey Weinstein at Miramax Studios. Duffy's band, the Brood, is also in the midst of signing a contract with Madonna's Maverick Records. Duffy's fiery manner is instrumental to his success, but when the deals go sour, no one seems safe from his explosive temper.
Plot Keywords: documentary, independent film, music industry, behind the scenes, director, filmmaking, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S.S.C. Napoli in the 1980s.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, sports, football, argentina, legend, athlete ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Playwright Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) recalls World War II, her best friend (Vanessa Redgrave) and writer Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards).
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, women, chef, cuisine, france ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 2003, the female country band, The Dixie Chicks, are at the top of their game being one of the most successful bands of all time. However with the US invasion of Iraq about to begin over frustrated worldwide objections about this needless war, one of the Chick vents off the cuff in concert about being ashamed of US President George W. Bush. This statement sparks a firestorm of organized and personal right wing attacks against the Chicks for daring to think they have the right to express a negative personal opinion about the President. This film covers the band's effort to ride out the turmoil that would leave their careers under a cloud, but would eventually give them a opportunity to grow as great artists who bow to no one.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, country music, controversy, political, iraq war, feminism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For decades, Diana Vreeland was one of the leading authorities in fashion through eccentric self-taught skill and a bold stylistic audacity. This film guides you through this fashion pioneer's long career from her youth in Paris until she became a leading magazine fashion columnist and editor. In this medium, Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and vivaciousness where nice clothes were just the beginning for something deeper. Even when that vocation ended, Vreeland managed to gain a new museum profession to present clothing's history in her own inimitable way.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: fashion, documentary, biography, creativity, visual, art, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of Baseball Hall-of-Famer Hank Greenberg is told through archival film footage and interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish fans, his former teammates, his friends, and his family. As a great first baseman with the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg endured antisemitism and became a hero and source of inspiration throughout the Jewish community, not incidentally leading the Tigers to Major League dominance in the 1930s.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: documentary, sports, biography, history, jewish culture, america, athlete ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a "gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank clerk named Jim Corbett, who quickly becomes an accomplished fighter under the new Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Despite his success, the young Irish-American's social pretensions and boastful manner soon estrange him from his benefactors, who plot to give their conceited former protégé a well-deserved comeuppance. Despite this, his dazzlingly innovative footwork helps him to beat a succession of bigger and stronger men, and he finally finds himself fighting for the world's championship against his childhood idol, John L. Sullivan.—duke1029
Plot Keywords: biography, sports, boxing, historical, drama, inspirational, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.
Plot Keywords: sports, true story, management, innovation, strategy, inspirational, workplace ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: All Blacks great Dan Carter has revealed that an "intimate" film about his personal life and his "challenging road" towards the 2015 Rugby. He's fallen in love with an impossible reach, a few thousand km away, and circumstances aren't making it any more possible.
Plot Keywords: sports documentary, biography, new zealand, athlete, career, legend, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the life and career of Ultimate Fighting Champion's welterweight world champ Georges St-Pierre, also known as "GSP".
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, sports, boxing, martial arts, inspirational, training ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Taking over England's top football club Leeds United, previously successful manager Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor who has loyally stayed with Brighton & Hove Albion.
Plot Keywords: football, england, sports, biography, history, 1970s, rivalry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, actor, shakespeare, career, lgbtq+, uk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: I Am Heath Ledger is a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Heath Ledger: actor, artist and icon. The documentary provides an intimate look at Heath Ledger through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his own personal journey.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, actor, hollywood, celebrity, tribute, cinematography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary follows one year in the life of Joan Rivers, who sees herself first and foremost as an actress, with her life as a comedienne/writer just an extension of being an actress. Now at age 75, Rivers has faced her ups and downs in her forty plus year career, the year leading up to filming being a down compared to what she would have wanted, which is a calendar full of engagements with several engagements each day. That want is in part to support her opulent personal lifestyle, but is more a need to bolster her own sense of self-worth as a basically insecure person who is probably best known now for her overuse of cosmetic surgery rather than her professional work. She feels that Kathy Griffin, who she admires, is now getting all the engagements she would have gotten in her prime. During this year, Rivers is seen going from engagement to engagement, some big - such as a Kennedy Center Honors for George Carlin, a double bill with Don Rickles in New York, and her own celebrity roast on Comedy Central (which she really isn't looking forward to) - and some not so big. But perhaps the most important of these to her is the opening of her new play, which she is testing in Edinburgh, important in that she wants to be seen as an actress; and an appearance on a celebrity version of The Apprentice (2004), important in that it will mark her first appearance on NBC since being blacklisted by them for her disagreement with Johnny Carson over the start of her own talk show on rival Fox back in 1989. Through the year, several long time supporters are at her side, including daughter Melissa Rivers, personal assistant 'Jocelyn Pickett', and manager Bill Sammeth, but all is not smooth even in this part of her life.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, comedy, stand-up comedy, celebrity, behind the scenes, show business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and just after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, workplace, travel, loneliness, midlife crisis ...
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