Best Biography movies of 1960

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 : 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 : 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, Charles Aznavour, Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul,
Directors : Jean Cocteau,

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

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Patricia Owens, Vic Damone,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Actors : Capucine, Patricia Morison, Geneviève Page, Dirk Bogarde,

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

Actors : Sergio Fantoni, Richard Egan, Joan Collins, Denis O'Dea,

When a modern-day girl faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible.

Actors : James Cagney, Ward Costello, Dennis Weaver, Vaughn Taylor,
Directors : Robert Montgomery,

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

Actors : Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan, May Britt,

The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...

Actors : John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert,
Directors : Gregory Ratoff,

Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he tries to defend himself against his lover's father.

Actors : Victoria Shaw, Curd Jürgens, Gia Scala, Herbert Lom,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

The story of rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun's career, from the 1920s until the late 1950s.

Actors : Udaya Kumar, Krishna Kumari, Rajkumar,
Directors : Y.R. Swamy,

The spiritual journey of Kanakadasa, a poet and a philosopher belonging to the Dasa sect during the 16th century when the stone idol of Lord Krishna turns around as he's being punished for wanting to see the Lord's statue in Udupi.

Actors : Jany Clair, Edmund Purdom, John Drew Barrymore, Gianna Maria Canale,
Directors : Pierre Chenal,

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.

Actors : Peter van Eyck, Ruth Leuwerik, Robert Graf, Harry Meyen,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

Biography of the famous German actress Renate Mueller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly ...

Actors : Vicente Parra, José Marco Davó, Marga López, Tomás Blanco,

Recently widowed from María de las Mercedes, King Alfonso XII of Spain is urged to marry again to secure the restored monarchy and a heir to the throne. He chooses María Cristina de ...

Actors : Barry Newman, John Ericson, Joan Harvey, Roy Fant,
Directors : Herbert J. Leder,

Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been ...