noun. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized scenes.

noun. A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).

"This was the kind of thinking that underlay the inspirational movies produced by Warner Brothers in the 1930s for which Variety coined the term "biopic" – films about medical pioneers, democratic revolutionaries and other movers and shakers who changed the world, invariably men MGM's Madame Curie was a rare exception."

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biographical film