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Nandeeswarudu
Nandeeswarudu (2012)
, 2h38
Genres Biography, Crime
Actors Taraka Ratna, Jagapati Babu, Sheena Shahabadi, Suman, M. Balayya, Chalapathi Rao

Nandu (Nandamuri Taraka Ratna) is a student who wants to become a police officer. His parents (Suman and Seetha) want him to lead a meaningful life. Nandu has a habit of getting into fights and this leads him to clash with a local gangster Baba (Ajay). A few shocking incidents take place and Nandu ends up in jail. Fed up with the way things are turning up, Nandu introspects and decides to redeem himself as a man of the people. He reshapes himself as Nandeeswarudu and starts fighting for people who are oppressed.
BV Karanth:Baba
BV Karanth:Baba (2012)
, 1h33
Directed by Ramchandra PN
Genres Biography

B V Karanth runs away as a child from his house in Babukodi in Karnataka to learn music in Mysore; instead he joins Gubbi Company, a professional theater company run by the legendary theater and film personality Gubbi Veeranna. Quest for knowledge first takes him to Banaras in North India where he learns Hindi language and Indian classical music and then to Delhi where he joins the second batch of the theater course at the National School of Drama. He later travels all over India conducting workshops and training people in modern theater. Films beckon him and his films gain critical acclaim and awards in India. He returns to Delhi to head the National School of Drama. Restlessness leads him to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh where he starts the Rang Mandal, a professional theater repository for the Bharat Bhavan under the Government of Madhya Pradesh. A controversy in Bhopal where is was accused of setting fire to a co artist cut shot his stint there. He returned to Mysore to start the Rangayana, yet another theater repertory, this time Kannada language based. B V Karanth continues to work till his death due to cancer in 2002.
Maharana Pratap: The First Freedom Fighter
Maharana Pratap: The First Freedom Fighter (2012)
, 2h25
Genres Biography
Themes Political films, Films about royalty

The story of Maharana Pratap starts from the narrator ramanbhai who narrates the epic of Maharana Pratap and initiates the history of Mewar kingdom. When Vallabhi (gujrat) was attacked by the Maan Mori in a battle attempt, Rawal Mahendra-II died and his queen Pushpawati somehow escaped from that attack and went to Nagda area (near Udaipur). Later she died, giving her child to a Brahmin family. The son of the queen Pushpawati grew young and was popularly known as Bappa Rawal (Kalbhoj). One day Bappa Rawal met Maharshi Harti Rashi (a sage) and by the profound blessings of the sage Harit Rashi, Bappa established the Great kingdom of Mewar. Narrator Kaviraj Shyamaldas proceeds further in the story as- Rana Ratan Singh's wife queen Padmini, who was an iconic paramount of beauty in historical times, faced bad consequences due to Allauddin Khilji intrigue and deception of forceful control over Chittorgarh as well as over queen Padmini. At the end the conflict between Padmini and Allauddhin Khilji led the last queen Padmini to sacrifice herself for the self-respect and honour of the dynasty by jumping alive in the heap of fire inside the palace at fort Chittor (the activity is popularly known as 'Saka/'Jauhar').
The Light: Swami Vivekananda
The Light: Swami Vivekananda (2013)
, 1h57
Genres Biography
Actors Gargi Roychowdhury, Biswajit Chakraborty, Archita Sahu

The eventful life of Swami Vivekananda has been captured in this film. The film shows the transition from young Narendra Nath Datta to world preacher Swami Vivekananda. Different events from his life starting from childhood days to meeting with the mystic saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa at Dakshineswar, Vivekananda's travel to Northern India, travel to the West (America, Europe), meeting with Sister Nivedita, and his works in India have been captured, thereby building his journey from being Narendranath to Vivekananda in bits and pieces.
Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story
Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story (2003)
, 33minutes
Origin USA
Genres Biography
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Alexis Cruz, Brittany Ishibashi, Emily Kuroda, Takayo Fischer

In 1941, Ralph Lazo is a 16-year-old student at Belmont High School, an ethnically mixed school in downtown Los Angeles. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, Ralph's Japanese American friend, Jimmy Matsuoka, and his family, are forced to sell their belongings and evacuate to a remote concentration camp. Ralph surprises his friends at the train station as they are about to depart for Manzanar, a relocation center in central California. He joins them for the 5-hour train ride, the three-year stay, and a lifelong friendship.
Komaram Bheem
Komaram Bheem (2010)

Genres Biography
Themes Political films

The film follows the Gonds' struggle of the 1940s in backwards Adilabad against the oppressive rule of the Nizam and the real life hero, Komaram Bheem, who led the resistance.
Ue o Muite Arukō: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari
Ue o Muite Arukō: Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari (2005)
, 2h7
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Rie Tomosaka, Akira Saitō, Yōko Minamida, Masato Wada (和田正人)

The movie follows Sakamoto's life from being 3 years old to a teenager and finally a family father.
Joymoti
Joymoti (2006)

Directed by Manju Borah
Genres Biography

The film is set in 17th-century Assam. The story is based on the life of Joymoti Konwari, a medieval Ahom princess of the Ahom dynasty who was tortured to death for not revealing the whereabouts of her husband Godapani and laid down her life for the sake of democracy.