Favorite Real Life Inventor Biopic
Which of these select real-life inventors, innovators*, pioneers* and their biopics is the most inspirational one? * limited to radical innovations and pioneering developments that are so dramatic they are essentially re-inventions
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- DirectorMorten TyldumStarsBenedict CumberbatchKeira KnightleyMatthew GoodeDuring World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.Alan Turing
Mathematician, Codebreaker and Inventor
Father of Modern Computers and Artificial Intelligence - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate BeckinsaleA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.Howard Hughes
Pioneer, Inventor, and Corporate Head in Film, Aviation and Aerospace
Driving Force Behind Many Film, Aviation, Lingerie and Other Innovations - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsJeff BridgesJoan AllenMartin LandauThe story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.Preston Tucker
Inventor, Automobile Pioneer and Company Founder, Tucker Automobiles and Tucker Aircraft
Driving Force Behind Many Automobile Innovations - DirectorMarc AbrahamStarsGreg KinnearLauren GrahamAlan AldaRobert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.Robert Kearns
Inventor
Automobile Windshield Wiper and Other Inventions - DirectorDavid O. RussellStarsJennifer LawrenceRobert De NiroBradley CooperJoy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.Joy Mangano
Inventor and Company Founder
Miracle Mop and Other Household Products - DirectorDanny BoyleStarsMichael FassbenderKate WinsletSeth RogenSteve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.Steve Jobs (and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak) [Michael Fassbender as Jobs version]
Co-Founder and CEO Apple, Pixar and NeXT Computers
Driving Force Behind Many Apple Products - DirectorJoshua Michael SternStarsAshton KutcherDermot MulroneyJosh GadThe story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.Steve Jobs (and Steve 'Woz' Wozniak) [Ashton Kutcher as Jobs version]
Co-Founder and CEO Apple, Pixar and NeXT Computers
Driving Force Behind Many Apple Products - DirectorKrsto PapicStarsPetar BozovicOrson WellesOja KodarLife and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.Nikola Tesla [Petar Bozovic as Tesla version]
Inventor
A/C Electrical Current and other Inventions - DirectorIrving CummingsStarsDon AmecheLoretta YoungHenry FondaThe story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
Inventor of Telephone (disputed) and Other Inventions - DirectorClarence BrownStarsSpencer TracyRita JohnsonLynne Overman82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.Thomas A. Edison
Inventor and Technology Pioneer
Light Bulb, Phonograph and Many Other Inventions - DirectorHugh HudsonStarsColin FirthRosemary HarrisIrène JacobMemoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.Denis Forman
TV Executive and Inventor
Amateur Inventor - DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJames StewartJean HagenWendell CoreyDavid Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.Carbine Williams
Inventor
M1 Carbine Machine Gun Design - DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsJavier BardemBelén RuedaLola DueñasThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.Rámon Sampedro
Euthansia Pioneer
Legal Assisted Suicide Procedure - DirectorJoseph SargentStarsCliff McMullenYasiin BeyLuray CooperA dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock
Heart Surgery Pioneers and Inventors
Pioneered Modern Heart Surgery Techniques and Instruments - DirectorTanya WexlerStarsMaggie GyllenhaalHugh DancyJonathan PryceThe truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.Dr. Mortimer Granville
Inventor and Psychological Researcher
Vibrator - DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsEverett McGillRon PerlmanNicholas KadiThis story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.Caveman
Inventor
Fire: Methods to Create, Transport and Applications - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.Major Edward C. Schneider (and Others)
Medical Researcher and Altitude Sickness Pioneer
Invention of Pressure Suit and Pressurized Cockpit - DirectorAngela RobinsonStarsLuke EvansRebecca HallBella HeathcoteThe story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.William Moulton Marston
Inventor and Psychological Researcher
Systolic Blood Pressure Test, Lie Detector Pioneer, Wonder Woman Creator
added 10 February 2018 - DirectorJérôme SalleStarsLambert WilsonPierre NineyAudrey TautouThe aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Inventor and Marine Conservation/Documentary/Underwater Photography Pioneer
Co-Developer, Open-Circuit SCUBA System
added February 2018 - DirectorAlexandra DeanStarsHedy LamarrMel BrooksJennifer HomThe life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.Hedy Lamar and George Antheil
Torpedo Guidance Inventor and Wireless Phone-Bluetooth-Technology Pioneer
Creators of "Frequency Hopping" Technology
added 10 February 2018 - DirectorJames IvoryStarsNick NolteGreta ScacchiGwyneth PaltrowWidower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children.Thomas Jefferson
Inventor and Democracy Pioneer
Swivel Chair, "Great Clock", Lazy Susan and Many Others
added 10 February 2018 - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniJosephine HutchinsonAnita LouiseThe biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.Louis Pasteur
Inventor, Medical Researcher and Germ Pioneer
Vaccination, Microbial Fermentation and Pasteurization
added 10 February 2018 - DirectorMick JacksonStarsClaire DanesJulia OrmondDavid StrathairnA biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.Temple Grandin Inventor and Autism Pioneer
"Hug-Box"
added 10 February 2018 - DirectorDavid FincherStarsJesse EisenbergAndrew GarfieldJustin TimberlakeAs Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.Mark Zuckerberg (and Others)
Internet Pioneer & Innovator
Driving Force Behind and Facebook Creator
added 10 February 2018 - DirectorBill CondonStarsBenedict CumberbatchDaniel BrühlCarice van HoutenA dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.Julian Assange (and Daniel Berg)
Internet Pioneer & Innovator
Driving Force Behind and WikiLeaks Creator
added 10 February 2018 - StarsJeremy IronsAnna ChancellorEmma KayIn two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.John Harrison
Inventor and Clockmaker
Invented Marine Chronometer, revolutionized sea navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel.
added 24 October 2018 - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsEdward G. RobinsonRuth GordonOtto KrugerTrue story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.Dr. Paul Ehrlich
Nobel prize-winning Immunology Pioneer
He made important contributions in the treatment of syphilis, diphtheria, as well as, in the fields of chemotherapy and therapeutic serums and popularized the concept of a magic bullet.
added 24 October 2018 - DirectorAlfonso Gomez-RejonStarsBenedict CumberbatchOliver PowellSophia AllyThe dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse [Nicholas Hoult as Tesla version]
Inventors
Electrical Current Systems and Other Related Inventions
added 22 November 2019 - DirectorMichael AlmereydaStarsEthan HawkeEve HewsonEli A. SmithA freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.Nikola Tesla [Ethan Hawke as Tesla version]
Inventor
A/C Electrical Current and other Inventions
added 08 February 2022 - DirectorKonstantin BuslovStarsYura BorisovOlga LermanArtur SmolyaninovWounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault rifle.Mikhail Kalashnikov
Inventor
AK-47 Assault Rifle and other Gun Innovations
added 08 February 2022 - DirectorJohn Lee HancockStarsMichael KeatonNick OffermanJohn Carroll LynchThe story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.Raymond "Ray" Croc
Innovator
Quick Service Pioneer and Franchise Model Innovator
added 10 February 2023 - DirectorAdam KassenMark KassenStarsChris EvansMark KassenVinessa ShawA David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.Jeffrey Dancort (supporting character)
Inventor
Safetypoint syringe needle
added 10 February 2023 - DirectorAndy SerkisStarsAndrew GarfieldClaire FoyHugh BonnevilleThe inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease.Edward "Teddy" Hall" (supporting character)
Inventor
Portable Mobile Resporator, Littlemore Clock and other Innovations
added 10 February 2023 - DirectorAllan EastmanStarsCliff RobertsonHope LangeHeather ThomasThe life of Henry Ford, and how he changed America while keeping his family together.Henry Ford
Inventor former Chief Engineer, Edison Illuminating Company
Quadricycle inventor and innovator in mass production
added 10 February 2023 - DirectorJohn BoultingStarsRobert DonatMaria SchellRenée AshersonA chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.Another Inventor or Innovator Biopic Not Listed
William Friese-Greene, Inventor (pictured example)
Motion picture camera inventor(one of many) and other photograpghy, film processing, and printing innovations
added 10 February 2023