Top 21 Biography Movies Must-See Released in 1983

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. See more about Gandhi / IMDB / YouTube

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted. Info on Frances / IMDB / YouTube

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party. Read about Danton / IMDB / YouTube

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army. Details on The Return of Martin Guerre / IMDB / YouTube

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber. Explore The Grey Fox / IMDB / YouTube

A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Details on Entre Nous / IMDB / YouTube

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature. Check out Cross Creek / IMDB / YouTube

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream. Info on Heart Like a Wheel / IMDB / YouTube

A urban Turkish teacher is transferred for political reasons to a backward Kurdish village in the mountains near the Iranian border. He is welcomed with distrust, but during that harsh year the mutual cultural misunderstandings fade away. More about A Season in Hakkari / IMDB / YouTube

The story of Billy Mills, the American Indian who came from obscurity to win the 10,000-meter long-distance foot-race in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Info on Running Brave / IMDB / YouTube

The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research. Check out The Terry Fox Story / IMDB / YouTube

The world's most popular entertainer and Europe's greatest boxer: the film puts the love affair of these two national heroes against a backdrop of the end of World War II, hotel suites in New York, transatlantic plane flights, Cerdan's loss of the world middleweight title to Jake Lamotta, and Piaf's gift for tragic love songs. Get info on Edith and Marcel / IMDB / YouTube

Horrific true tale set in late-1970s Australia and later West Germany about an abused wife who learns in horror that her sadistic German-born husband is actually a fanatical neo-Nazi. Details on Savage Attraction / IMDB / YouTube

Documentary profile of actor Sterling Hayden . Details on Pharos of Chaos / IMDB / YouTube

Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll, who teaches him how to read. Bill soon discovers his religious heritage, overcomes the fire that accidentally destroyed his small canteen business, then travels to California to search for the Morrows. Explore Bill: On His Own / IMDB / YouTube

TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all. More about Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story / IMDB / YouTube

The first Indian movie to be made in Sanskrit. The movie follows the life and times of Adi Shankaracharya - the founder of the non-duality (Advaita) school of Indian philosophy. The Jiv-Atman or Individual Self is a mere reflection or limitation of Singular Atman in a multitude of apparent individual bodies. Check out Adi Shankaracharya / IMDB / YouTube

The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed. Get info on I Want to Live / IMDB / YouTube