Tag: biopic
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Sally, Sally Ride’s historic and iconic life
Sally, a biopic about astronaut Sally Ride, tells her story in the normal biopic documentary style using archival footage, photos, interviews, and some actor reenactments. It focuses on the part of her life that stayed hidden from the public until her death, namely the information that she was a lesbian.
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Young Woman and the Sea, the Trudy Ederle story
Young Woman and the Sea tells the inspiring true story of Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle. In 1926 she proved that women could be athletes and accomplish heroic deeds. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel, and she did it in two hours less time than it had taken the men who managed it…
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Lee review: Kate Winslet as photographer Lee Miller
Lee conveys a powerful visual message about Nazis and a courageous photographer named Lee Miller who was determined to photograph what she was seeing in the midst of World War II.