Mother's Day 2021 — Mother of ... Biopics
In celebration of all mothers everywhere, a motherly biopic-themed poll. This poll is dedicated to one particularly special mom for Mother's Day 2021.
Which of these select movies about a game-changing person who is commonly regraded as the "mother of ...." for a notable discovery, a pioneering effort or inspiring a nation is your favorite motherly biopic?
Discuss the topic here.
Which of these select movies about a game-changing person who is commonly regraded as the "mother of ...." for a notable discovery, a pioneering effort or inspiring a nation is your favorite motherly biopic?
Discuss the topic here.
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- DirectorMarjane SatrapiStarsRosamund PikeYvette FeuerMirjam NovakThe incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Mother of Modern Physics, Mother of Nuclear Science, Mother of the Atomic Age Alternate Biopic: Madame Curie (1943) - DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsElle FanningBel PowleyOwen RichardsLife and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.Mary Shelley
Mother of Science Fiction, Mother of Frankenstein - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsNicole KidmanJames FrancoRobert PattinsonA chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.Gertrude Bell
Mother of Modern Mesopotamia, Queen of the Desert - DirectorGeorge C. WolfeStarsViola DavisChadwick BosemanGlynn TurmanTensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey
Mother of the Blues - DirectorAlejandro AmenábarStarsRachel WeiszMax MinghellaOscar IsaacA historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.Hypatia
Mother of Ancient Feminism - DirectorDaryl DukeStarsJaclyn SmithClaire BloomTimothy DaltonThe fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing, known as "the Lady with the Lamp".Florence Nightingale
Mother of Modern Nursing - DirectorAlan GibsonStarsIngrid BergmanNed BeattyFranklin CoverThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Golda Meir
Mother of Nation, Israel - DirectorGillian JacobsStarsKurt BeyerGrace HopperKathy KleimanGrace Hopper dedicated her life to bringing computers to the masses, when most supposed the technology was only useful for scientists and the military. Through her genius, she taught software English, so that everyone could communicate with computers.Grace Hopper
Mother of Computer Science, Grandma COBOL, Queen of Code - DirectorSarah GavronStarsCarey MulliganAnne-Marie DuffHelena Bonham CarterIn 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.Emmeline Pankhurst
Mother of the British Suffrage Movement - DirectorMike GabrielEric GoldbergStarsMel GibsonLinda HuntChristian BaleAn English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.Pocahontas
Mother of American History - DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsDana DelanyHenry CzernyRod SteigerMargaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.Margaret Sanger
Mother of Reproductive Rights, Mother of the Birth Control Movement, co-founder, Planned Parenthood - DirectorGary GlassmanStarsBarbara FlynnVittorio LuzzatiBrenda MaddoxRosalind Franklin
Unsung Mother of the Double Helix aka Dark Lady of DNA - DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsJennifer HudsonTerrence HowardElias KoteasA drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.Winnie Mandela
Mother of Nation, South Africa - DirectorJulie TaymorStarsJulianne MooreAlicia VikanderJanelle MonáeThe story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem's itinerant childhood and its influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights worldwide.Gloria Steinem
Mother of Modern Feminism - DirectorGarth DavisStarsRooney MaraJoaquin PhoenixChiwetel EjioforTwelve men heard and spread the message of Jesus. Only one woman understood it.Mary Magdalene
Mother of Female Mystics - DirectorJames MangoldStarsJoaquin PhoenixReese WitherspoonGinnifer GoodwinA chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.Maybelle 'Mother' Carter
Mother of Modern Country Music - DirectorAnne SewitskyStarsIne Marie WilmannValene KaneEldar SkarThe story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star.Sonja Henie
Mother of Modern Figure Skating, Queen of the Ice - DirectorWalter LangStarsClifton WebbMyrna LoyJeanne CrainMyrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Mother of Industrial Psychology, Mother of Modern Management - StarsPaul GiamattiLaura LinneyJohn DossettThe life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.Abigail Adams
Founding Mother, Mother of the Nation, United States America - DirectorGeorge C. WolfeStarsRenée Elise GoldsberrySylvia Grace CrimReed BirneyAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.Henrietta Lacks
Mother of Modern Medicine - DirectorBob BalabanStarsJoan AllenJeremy IronsEd Begley Jr.Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.Georgia O'Keeffe
Mother of American Modernism - Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's "mad" love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics "poetical science." Via her friendship with inventor Charles Babbage, she became involved in "programming" his Analytical Engine, a precursor to the computer, thus becoming the world's first computer programmer. This picture book biography of Ada Lovelace is a compelling portrait of a woman who saw the potential for numbers to make art.Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron)
Mother of Computer Programming - DirectorMichelle FerrariStarsRachel L. CarsonMary FassinoJohn F. KennedyA profile of scientist and writer Rachel L. Carson (1907-64), whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" helped launch the modern environmental movement.Rachel Carson
Mother of the Modern Environmental Movement - DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsBonnie BedeliaBeau BridgesDiane DelanoShirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.Shirley Muldowney
Mother of Drag Racing - DirectorJamil DehlaviStarsChristopher LeeShireen ShahJames CurranThe story of the Indian politician Muhammad Ali Jinnah who successfully campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first Governor-General.Fatima Jinnah aka Māder-e Millat
Mother of Nation, Pakistan - DirectorKarel ReiszStarsVanessa RedgraveJames FoxJason RobardsA biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.Isadora Duncan
Mother of Modern American Ballet - DirectorMick CsakyStarsSister Rosetta TharpePauline BlackChris BarberDocumentary about gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who influenced the early rockers.Rosetta Tharpe
Godmother of Rock & Roll - DirectorOndi TimonerStarsMatt SmithMarianne RendónJohn Benjamin HickeyA look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.Patti Smith
Godmother of Punk - DirectorGuillermo NavarroStarsCatherine Zeta-JonesJenny PellicerAlejandro EddaThe real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the time she was a young girl to the end of her life.Griselda Blanco
Godmother of Cocaine, Queen of Narco-Trafficking, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel
Alternative Biopics: Griselda (2024) and The Godmother