Best Biography movies of 1960s

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : David Lean,

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Actors : Michael Strong, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, George C. Scott,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, Omar Sharif,
Directors : William Wyler,

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Laurence Olivier, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

Actors : Richard Burton, Gino Cervi, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.

Actors : Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, Paul Stewart, John Forsythe,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Robert Redford, Strother Martin, Paul Newman, Katharine Ross,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.

Actors : Nikolay Grinko, Ivan Lapikov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Sergeev,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Fredric March, Dick York, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Neville Brand, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter,

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

Actors : Michael Anderson Jr., Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Charlton Heston,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Brown,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, John Castle,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Siobhan McKenna, Ron Randell,
Directors : Nicholas Ray,

The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Anthony Quayle, Richard Burton, Irene Papas, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.