From "Amy" to "What Happened, Miss Simone?," we're in a golden age of biographical docs. Our panel of film critics picks the best ones ever. Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics ...

Sociologist Michael Bury first described chronic illness as a “biographical disruption” in the 1980s. This description and the theory Bury developed around it continue to be relevant in understanding ...

How attractive we find a person’s face might depend on more than just their looks. A new study published in Brain Imaging and Behavior found that learning biographical details—such as someone’s job, ...

In 1907, a 42-year-old woman named Minna Bernays confessed she was having an affair with Sigmund Freud. Normally this would have been of little consequence. After all, men routinely had (and still ...

Netflix is particularly savvy at burying all its categorical key words; “biographical documentaries” isn’t exactly a phrase or sub-genre that comes to mind immediately when browsing for something to ...

Following Pope Francis' death, several religious films entered the charts. One of them was the biographical drama The Two Popes. The Netflix original movie premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film ...

This month sees the release of the sixth edition of David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film, published for the first time in 1975. The book—now 1,154 pages long, with over 1,400 entries, ...

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.” A landslide, indeed. Blame the advent of 24-hour cable news, the popularity of reality TV or social media, ...