Greatest 18 Biography Movies Highly Recommended Released in 2014

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life. Look into The Imitation Game / IMDB / YouTube

Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally. Info on The Theory of Everything / IMDB / YouTube

Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. Find out about Lone Survivor / IMDB / YouTube

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. More about Unbroken / IMDB / YouTube

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners. See more about The Monuments Men / IMDB / YouTube

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy. More about Wild / IMDB / YouTube

Jiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes. Get info on The Wind Rises / IMDB / YouTube

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. Details on Big Eyes / IMDB / YouTube

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. Details on Pride / IMDB / YouTube

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. Find out about Citizenfour / IMDB / YouTube

A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball. Info on Million Dollar Arm / IMDB / YouTube

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua. Learn about Kill the Messenger / IMDB / YouTube

A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. Look into The Railway Man / IMDB / YouTube

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Read about Kill Your Darlings / IMDB / YouTube

In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease. Explore The Normal Heart / IMDB / YouTube

The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. Explore Jersey Boys / IMDB / YouTube

The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century England. Look into Belle / IMDB / YouTube

A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives. Details on The Good Lie / IMDB / YouTube