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Top 50 Biography movies by average vote

note: for these charts, only votes from regular voters are considered.

Rank	Title
1	Schindler's List (1993) 8.8/10 (197147 votes)
2	Goodfellas (1990) 8.7/10 (162214 votes)
3	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.6/10 (60387 votes)
4	Pianist, The (2002) 8.4/10 (87171 votes)
5	Raging Bull (1980) 8.4/10 (64007 votes)
6	Elephant Man, The (1980) 8.3/10 (39752 votes)
7	Braveheart (1995) 8.3/10 (180665 votes)
8	Message, The (1976) 8.2/10 (3725 votes)
9	Into the Wild (2007) 8.2/10 (42012 votes)
10	Napoléon (1927) 8.2/10 (2279 votes)
11	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.1/10 (41263 votes)
12	Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007) 8.1/10 (12361 votes)
13	Gandhi (1982) 8.1/10 (35074 votes)
14	'Breaker' Morant (1980) 8.1/10 (4709 votes)
15	Man for All Seasons, A (1966) 8.1/10 (9483 votes)
16	Patton (1970) 8.1/10 (28983 votes)
17	Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) 8.0/10 (12132 votes)
18	Becket (1964) 8.0/10 (3346 votes)
19	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 8.0/10 (28478 votes)
20	Ed Wood (1994) 8.0/10 (52650 votes)
21	Spartacus (1960) 8.0/10 (36395 votes)
22	Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor (1958) 8.0/10 (1745 votes)
23	Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974) 8.0/10 (2831 votes)
24	Sergeant York (1941) 8.0/10 (4621 votes)
25	Mar adentro (2004/I) 8.0/10 (16921 votes)
26	Persepolis (2007) 8.0/10 (11671 votes)
27	Miracle Worker, The (1962) 8.0/10 (4422 votes)
28	Cinderella Man (2005) 8.0/10 (46437 votes)
29	Papillon (1973) 8.0/10 (20375 votes)
30	Straight Story, The (1999) 8.0/10 (29209 votes)
31	Maurice Richard (2005) 7.9/10 (1512 votes)
32	World's Fastest Indian, The (2005) 7.9/10 (13026 votes)
33	Finding Neverland (2004) 7.9/10 (65903 votes)
34	Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima (1956) 7.9/10 (1479 votes)
35	Insider, The (1999) 7.9/10 (53214 votes)
36	Walk the Line (2005) 7.9/10 (63637 votes)
37	In the Name of the Father (1993) 7.9/10 (19730 votes)
38	Control (2007) 7.9/10 (10176 votes)
39	Queen Christina (1933) 7.9/10 (1905 votes)
40	Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) 7.9/10 (4398 votes)
41	Ivan Groznyy I (1944) 7.8/10 (2276 votes)
42	Beautiful Mind, A (2001) 7.8/10 (90840 votes)
43	Diarios de motocicleta (2004) 7.8/10 (27843 votes)
44	Machuca (2004) 7.8/10 (3080 votes)
45	Last Emperor, The (1987) 7.8/10 (18003 votes)
46	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) 7.8/10 (4626 votes)
47	Daens (1993) 7.8/10 (1291 votes)
48	Ray (2004/I) 7.8/10 (32355 votes)
49	Sound of Music, The (1965) 7.8/10 (39751 votes)
50	Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007) 7.7/10 (30582 votes)

Bottom 10 Biography movies

Rank	Title
10	Bettie Page: Dark Angel (2004) 3.1/10 (134 votes)
9	Song of Norway (1970) 3.1/10 (179 votes)
8	Conqueror, The (1956) 3.0/10 (1085 votes)
7	Narcotic (1933) 2.9/10 (76 votes)
6	Vercingétorix (2001) 2.7/10 (2761 votes)
5	Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) 2.4/10 (88 votes)
4	De Sade (1969) 2.4/10 (234 votes)
3	Viva Knievel! (1977) 2.1/10 (441 votes)
2	Happy Hooker, The (1975) 2.0/10 (346 votes)
1	Zapata - El sueño del héroe (2004) 1.5/10 (541 votes)

The top movies report uses a weighted rank calculated as follows:

 weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C

 where:
  R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  m = minimum votes required to be listed in the top 50
      (currently 200)
  C = the mean vote across the whole report
      (currently 6.9)