Best Biography movies of 1960s

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Orson Welles, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

Actors : Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Forrest Tucker, John Wayne,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Actors : Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

Actors : Harry Andrews, Diane Cilento, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Actors : Katy Jurado, Arthur Kennedy, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

Actors : Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath,
Directors : Michael Reeves,

A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch hunter.

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Gogi Gegechkori, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan,
Directors : Sergei Parajanov,

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images.

Actors : Dorothy Tutin, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Christopher Gable, Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian,
Directors : Ken Russell,

Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.

Actors : Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu, Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.

Actors : Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Paul Wallace,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Kruschen,
Directors : Charles Walters,

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.

Actors : Susan Kohner, Susannah York, Montgomery Clift, Larry Parks,
Directors : John Huston,

This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure ...

Actors : James Gregory, Robert Culp, Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin,
Directors : Leslie H. Martinson,

During WW2, Lieut. John F. Kennedy takes command of PT 109 to fight the Japanese in the Solomon Islands.

Actors : Richard Pasco, Christopher Lee, Francis Matthews, Barbara Shelley,
Directors : Don Sharp,

The movie chronicles the events of history's "man of mystery," Rasputin. Although not quite historically accurate and little emphasis is put on the politics of the day, Rasputin's rise to ...

Actors : Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.

Actors : James Mason, Jack MacGowran, Helen Mirren, Neva Carr-Glynn,
Directors : Michael Powell,

An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an off-shore island to try once more. On the island he rediscovers his ...

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Ty Hardin,
Directors : Robert Siodmak,

George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn.

Actors : Greer Garson, Ralph Bellamy, Jean Hagen, Hume Cronyn,
Directors : Vincent J. Donehue,

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Actors : Claudine Auger, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Françoise Arnoul,
Directors : Jean Cocteau,

The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.