A "film biography" refers to a movie that tells the story of a real-life person's life. It shows their experiences, achievements, and challenges in a dramatic and entertaining way. Full definition
YA / Special Interest: A beautifully produced film biography for students, art lovers, and bird - watchers. (booklistonline.com)
«Lovelace,» the new film biography of the woman who starred in the most famous porn film of all time, «Deep Throat,» struggles to find novelty in a story that plays as depressingly familiar. (rogersmovienation.com)
A boyhood glimpse of the Wild Man of Borneo (at the Coney Island Midway, of course) set him on a circuitous and rocky course — one so movingly charted by a new film biography. (bombmagazine.org)