Links
Below are some websites that you may find useful, informative, or
at least entertaining.
The sites show some of the breadth of perspectives and variety of
manifestations of the phenomena discussed in the course.
They are grouped into the following categories:
Genius | Giftedness and Talent
|
Intelligence | Savants
Aesthetics Research and Practice | Computers
and Artificial Intelligence | Creativity, Leadership,
Etc.
Library Research | Databases |
APA
Style
Geniuses, Creators, and Leaders | Movies
Academy of Achievement
MacArthur
Fellows (the so-called "Genius Prizes")
Quotations
about Genius
Estimated IQs of
some of the Greatest Geniuses
The Roots of
Creativity and Genius
Great Idea Finder
The Genius Hall
Genius T-Shirts
Famous Left-Handers
Ig Nobel Prizes
Delta Star
Analysis-Guru
*One or more of these pages is set up by a self-proclaimed genius.
Can you figure out which one(s)?
Intel Science Talent Search (formerly
the Westinghouse Talent Search)
Davidson Institute for
Talent Development
Genius Denied
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology)
Talent Development Resources
World Council for Gifted and Talented
Children
National Association for Gifted Children
National Research
Center on the Gifted and Talented
Connie Belin &
Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education & Talent
Development
Center for Talented Youth at the
Johns Hopkins University
Study of Mathematically
Precocious Youth (SMPY)
International Child Art Foundation
Achievement Advocate
Gifted Children Australia
Gifted and Talented Education
(California)
California Association for the Gifted
IQ Comparison
Site
Intelligence Theory Site
International Society for Intelligence
Research
Mensa International
International High IQ Society
(includes IQ tests)
Mega Foundation
Triple Nine Society
Prometheus Society
Best
of the Web - Intelligence
The IQ-Trapper
IQ Test Labs
Test Cafe IQ Test
3SmartCubes (includes IQ tests)
Uncommonly Difficult
IQ Tests
GIQTest
More IQ Tests [2,
3,
4,
5]
Autistic
Savants
Savant
Syndrome: Frequently Asked Questions
Tuning In to
Genius
Asperger's Syndrome
On Not Being
an Idiot Savant
Tony DeBlois
George Widener
AESTHETICS RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Society for the Psychology
of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Division 10: American Psychological
Association)
International Association
of Empirical Aesthetics
Aesthetics Online (American
Society for Aesthetics)
Contemporary Aesthetics
(online journal)
European Society for
the Cognitive Science of Music
International
Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA)
International Society
for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media
Institute of Neuroesthetics
American Art Therapy Association,
Inc.
American Dance Therapy Association
American Music Therapy Association
National Association for Poetry
Therapy
COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Minds
& Machines
Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies
Computational
Aesthetics
The Loebner
Prize
Jabberwock Chat
(winner of 2003 Loebner)
ALICE (winner of 2004 Loebner)
20Q.net (Twenty Questions: The Neural-Net
on the Internet)
Chess Genius
Chinook (checkers
program; first computer program to win a human world championship)
SCIgen: An Automatic
CS Paper Generator
Postmodernism Generator
International Center
for Studies in Creativity
Creative Education Foundation
Creative Problem Solving Institute
Center for Creative Leadership
American Creativity Association
Mega-Creator.com
CreatingMinds
Creative Quotations: Quotations
for Creative Thinking
Creativity Workshop
Creativity at Work
Be More Creative
Creativity Radio
The Lemelson Foundation
National Inventors Hall of Fame
International
Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology
Technocapitalism
National Center for Creative
Aging
Creativity Discovery
Corps (Center on Aging, Health, and the Humanities)
ESTA: Elders
Share the Arts
International Society of Political Psychology
International Leadership Association
Academy of Leadership
Center for
Leader Development
Executive Leadership
Psychobiography
Psychohistory
Electronic Databases
Electronic Journals
California Digital Library
PsycINFO (tutorial)
Scholar Google
Wikipedia
The sites that follow contain information about major achievers and their achievements. They have been roughly ordered from the most general to the most specific. More sites will be added as new ones are encountered.
Chinese Civilization
Nobel Laureates (the Sciences, Literature,
and Peace)
Mathematicians
Chemists
Philosophers
Naturalists
Psychologists
Literary Greats
National Library of Medicine's
Profiles in Science
Dramatists (and Musicals)
Artists
Gurus
and Spiritual Teachers
WebMuseum, Paris
Women of History
Women in World History
Women in Science
[1] [2]
Women's Early Art
African American Registry
History Makers, The
Philosophers (Islamic
Civilization)
Literature Collection
Poets (Mostly English
Language)
Poetry
Archive
American Poems
American Writers
PBS American
Masters Series
Women Mathematicians
Mathematics Genealogy Project
Motion Picture Awards
Classic Movies
Metacritic
Chinese Art
Marxist Writers
All Empires
Psychology with Style
(please do not add the part "In partial fulfillment of the requirements
..." etc. to your title page)
APA Style Help
APA Formatting
and Style Guide
GENIUSES, CREATORS, AND LEADERS*
Which of the following celebrities is a genius, creator, and/or leader? Which is a talent or mere eccentric? Which is "none of the above" - perhaps someone who just happened to be at the right place at the right time? To find out, try surfing around the following sites.
A
Akbar the Great
Alexander
the Great
Alhazen
(Ibn al-Haitham)
al-Mutanabbi
Dante Alighieri
Woody Allen
Susan B.
Anthony
Archimedes
Aristotle
"Daisy" Ashford (Margaret
Mary Julia)
King Ashoka
Averroes (Ibn
Rushd)
Avicenna
(Ibn Sina)
B
Basho
Matsuo
Ludwig van
Beethoven [1] [2]
[3]
Simon de Beauvoir
The Beetles
Ingmar Bergman
Símon
Bolívar
Napoleon Bonaparte
Boudicca [1] [2]
Buddha
Michelangelo
Buonarroti
C
Julius Caesar
Andrew Carnegie
George Washington
Carver
Empress
Catherine the Great
Miguel de Cervantes
Chief
Cetewayo
Charlie
Chaplin
Thomas Chatterton
Cesar E. Chavez
[1] [2]
Chikamatsu
Monzaemon
Julia
Child
Noam
Chomsky
Queen Christina
Chu Hsi (Zhu Xi)
Chuang
Chou (Zhuangzi)
Winston Churchill
Camille Claudel
Alonzo
Clemons
Cleopatra
Christopher
Columbus
Confucius (Kongfuzi)
[1] [2]
Nicolaus Copernicus
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
D
Henry
Darger
Charles
Darwin [1] [2]
Deep Blue
Jacques
Derrida
René Descartes
Shakuntala Devi
Emily Dickinson
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
E
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein [1]
[2]
Queen Elizabeth
I
Paul Erdös
Leonard
Euler
F
Benjamin Franklin
Sigmund Freud
G
Galen
Galileo Galilei
Evariste
Galois
Francis Galton
Mohandas Gandhi [1] [2]
[3]
Bill Gates
Antoni Gaudí
Genghis Khan
al-Ghazzali of Tus
Philip Glass
Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe [1] [2]
Samuel
Goldwyn
Martha
Graham
Gu Kaizhi
(Ku K’ai-chih)
Che Guevara
Johann Gutenberg
H
Stephen W. Hawking
David Helfgott
Hildegard von
Bingen [1] [2]
Hippocrates
Adolf
Hitler
Katsushika
Hokusai
Christiaan
Huygens [1] [2]
Hypatia
J
Thomas Jefferson
Jesus
Joan of Arc (Jehanne Darc)
James Joyce
Pope John Paul II
Chief Joseph
Carl Jung
K
Franz Kafka
Kalidasa
Dean Kamen
Immanuel
Kant
Garry Kasparov
Mary Kay
Thomas Kinkade
Martin Luther King
L
Lao
Tzu
Antoine-Laurent
Lavoisier
Gottfried
W. Leibniz
Leonardo da Vinci [1] [2]
Lenin
Henrietta
Leavitt
Li
Po (Li Bo)
Abraham Lincoln
Louis XIV the Great (the "Sun King")
Augusta
Ada King, countess of Lovelace
M
Mahavira
Nelson Rolihlahla
Mandela
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong)
Pietro Mascagni
Barbara McClintock
William McGonagall
Brittany Maier
Mencius
Gregor
Mendel
John Stuart Mill
Moses
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Muhammad [1] [2]
Takashi Murakami
Murasaki Shikibu
N
Nagarjuna
Napoleon [1] [2]
John
Forbes Nash
Alexandra Nechita
Pablo Neruda
Isaac
Newton [1] [2]
[3]
O
Hikari Oe
Ogata Korin
Marla Olmstead
Omar
Khayyam
P
Paracelsus
Harry Partch
Blaise Pascal
Louis Pasteur
Linus Carl Pauling
Kim Peek ("Rain Man")
Czar Peter
the Great
Jean Piaget
Pablo Picasso
Plato
R
Ramanuja
Srinivasa
Ramanujan
Royal
Raymond Rife
Paul Robeson
John D. Rockefeller
S
Sappho
Sargon
the Great
Vidal Sassoon
Charles Schulz
Philippa
Schuyler
Albert Schweitzer
(Takakazu)
Seki Kowa
Sesshu
William Shakespeare [1]
[2] [3]
Shankara
(Samkara)
Shih
Huang Ti (Shi Huangdi)
Murasaki
Shikibu
William James Sidis
Socrates
Sotatsu Tawaraya
Gertrude Stein
Martha Stewart
Sun Tzu
T
Rabindranath
Tagore
Ts'ai Lun (Cai
Lun)
Tu
Fu (Du Fu)
Alan Turing
U
Ulugh
Beg
Umar ibn
al-Khattab
Pope Urban
II
V
Vincent van
Gogh
Han van Meegeren
Vesalius
Voltaire
Marilyn vos Savant
W
Andy Warhol
Richard Wawro
Oscar Wilde
Stephen Wolfram
Mary
Wollstonecraft
Wright
Brothers
*Two qualifications must imposed on this list:
First, these individuals do not all qualify by the same definitions. This is especially true in the case of the geniuses, some of whom are listed because of their high IQ, phenomenal precocity, or other idiosyncratic distinction. In fact, some of those listed might be called "pseudo-geniuses" (e.g., Deep Blue, Devi, McGonagall, Sidis, van Meegeren, and vos Savant). But they all either illustrate or challenge our conceptions of genius, creativity, and leadership.
Second, the list by no means constitutes a systematic or represenative selection. Many notable figures still lack significant coverage on the internet. To a very large extent, coverage is contingent on the eccentric interests of those who like to construct websites for their personal heroes. Especially conspicuous is the dearth of good sites for luminaries from non-Western civilizations. Presumably this unfortunate state of affairs will diminish as internet expertise continues to diffuse throughout the world.
Meanwhile, I welcome any suggestions regarding sites that should
be added to the above list. I'm especially interested in any one
who has achieved eminence in an area not yet represented.
One way that our culture reveals its fascination with genius, creativity, and leadership is to produce biopics, documentaries, or other film genre devoted to some notable figure. Below is a sampling of what has appeared on the silver screen. Included are films that deal with exceptional talents of diverse forms just to present the range of the phenomenon that attracts so much popular interest. I've even included some films about infamous criminals given the oft-hypothesized connection between genius and the criminal mind.
Notice that, on average, well over one such movie appears per year, and by the end of the 20th century filmmakers were producing much more than four of these films per year! Biopics and their kind really took off after the advent of sound pictures - people wanted to hear their heros speak. Of course, not all are masterpieces, and some are pure Hollywood fluff. Check out some of the sites to find out which greats inspire the greatest flicks.
1900s
1910s
Amours de la reine Élisabeth, Les (1912; Queen Elizabeth)
Richard Wagner (1913)
Robespierre (1913)
Frederick the Great (1914)
Life of Shakespeare,
The (1914)
Davy Crockett (1916)
David Garrick (1916)
Cleopatra (1917)
Conqueror, The (1917;
Sam Houston)
Fall of the Romanoffs,
The (1917; Rasputin)
Deliverance (1919; Helen
Keller)
Fighting Roosevelts, The
(1919; Teddy Roosevelt)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1919)
1920s
Gloria que mata (1922; 'Manuel Granero')
Richard the Lion-Hearted (1923)
Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln, The (1924)
1930s
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Loves of Robert Burns, The
(1930)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Private Life of Henry VIII,
The (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
Voltaire (1933)
Unfinished Symphony (1933;
Schubert)
World's Outstanding Literary
Genius, The (1933)
Barretts of Wimpole Street,
The (1934; Elizabeth and Robert Browning)
Catherine the Great (1934)
Iron Duke, The (1934; Wellington)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Clive of India (1935)
Diamond Jim (1935)
Story of Louis Pasteur,
The (1935)
Give Me Liberty (1936;
Patrick Henry)
grand amour de Beethoven,
Un (1936)
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Mary of Scotland (1936;
Queen of Scots)
Rembrandt (1936)
Rhodes of Africa (1936)
Whom the Gods Love (1936;
Mozart)
Auld Lang Syne (1937;
Robert Burns)
Junost poeta (1937; Alexander
Pushkin)
Life of Emile Zola, The
(1937)
Parnell (1937)
Pugachyov (1937; Pugachev)
Pyotr pervyj I (1937; Peter
the Great Part I)
Aleksandr Nevsky (1938)
Detstvo Gorkogo (1938; Gorky)
Great Waltz, The (1938;
Johann Strauss, Jr.)
Pyotr pervyj II (1938; Peter
the Great Part II)
Angel of Mercy (1939;
Clara Barton)
Ash Can Fleet, The (1939;
David Bushnell)
Giant of Norway, The
(1939; Fridtjof Nansen)
Great Victor Herbert,
The (1939)
Juarez (1939)
Old Hickory (1939; Andrew
Jackson)
Story of Alexander Graham
Bell, The (1939)
Story of Alfred Nobel, The
(1939)
Story of Dr. Jenner, The
(1939)
1940s
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Bismarck (1940)
Brigham Young - Frontiersman
(1940)
Dispatch from Reuters,
A (1940; Julius Reuter)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
(1940)
Edison, the Man (1940)
George Washington Carver
(1940)
Knute Rockne All American
(1940)
Young Tom Edison (1940)
Maschera di Cesare Borgia,
La (1941)
Rossini (1941)
Diesel (1942)
Gentleman Jim (1942;
James J. Corbett)
First of the Few, The
(1942; R.J. Mitchell)
Great Mr. Handel, The (1942)
Loves of Edgar Allan Poe,
The (1942)
Simón Bolívar
(1942)
Young Mr. Pitt, The(1942)
Flight for Freedom (1943;
Amelia Earhart)
Madame Curie (1943)
Jack London (1943)
Paracelsus (1943)
Portrait of a Genius (1943;
Leonardo da Vinci)
Adventures of Mark Twain,
The (1944)
Buffalo Bill (1944; William
"Buffalo Bill" Cody)
Great Moment, The (1944;
William Thomas Green Morton)
Wilson (1944)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Captain Eddie (1945;
Eddie Rickenbaker)
Dillinger (1945)
Dolly Sisters, The (1945)
Great John L., The (1945;
Sullivan)
Ivan Groznyj I (1945;
Ivan the Terrible)
Song to Remember, A (1945;
Chopin)
Camões (1946)
Glinka (1946)
So Goes My Love (1946; Hiram
Steven Maxim)
Babe Ruth Story, The (1948)
Bonnie Prince Charlie
(1948)
Brindis a Manolete (1948;
Manuel Rodríguez)
D'homme à hommes
(1948; Henri Dunant)
Fabulous Fraud, The (1948;
Anton Mesmer)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Mozart Story, The (1948)
Akademik Ivan Pavlov (1949)
Aleksandr Popov (1949)
Bad Lord Byron, The (1949)
Docteur Laennec (1949)
Eroica (1949; Beethoven)
1950s
Desert Fox: The Story of
Rommel, The (1951)
Enrico Caruso: leggenda
di una voce (1951)
Follow the Sun (1951;
Ben Hogan)
Great Caruso, The (1951)
Carbine Williams (1952;
David Marshall 'Marsh' Williams)
Grand Méliès,
Le (1952)
Hans Christian Andersen
(1952)
Moulin Rouge (1952; Toulouse-Lautrec)
Stars and Stripes Forever
(1952; John Philip Sousa)
Story of Will Rogers, The
(1952)
Le Grand Méliès
(1952)
Rimsky-Korsakov (1952)
Crazylegs (1953; Elroy
"Crazylegs" Hirsch)
Eddie Cantor Story, The
(1953)
Giuseppe Verdi (1953)
Glenn Miller Story, The
(1953)
Martin Luther (1953)
Melba (1953)
Attila (1954)
Leo Tolstoy (1954)
Deep in My Heart (1954;
Siegmund Romberg)
Benny Goodman Story, The
(1955)
Court-Martial of Billy
Mitchell, The (1955)
Mozart (1955)
Napoléon (1955)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Best Things in Life Are
Free, The (1956; Ray Henderson, Buddy De Sylva, and Lew Brown)
Eddy Duchin Story, The
(1956)
Lust for Life (1956; Van
Gogh)
Barretts of Wimpole Street,
The (1957; Elizabeth and
Robert Browning)
Beau James (1957; Jimmy
Walker)
Fabulous Dorseys, The
(1947)
Fear Strikes Out (1957;
Jimmy Piersall)
Rasskazy o Lenine (1957;
Lenin)
Montparnasse 19 (1958; Modigliani)
Al Capone (1959)
Five Pennies, The (1959;
Loring "Red" Nichols)
Gene Krupa Story, The
(1959)
John Paul Jones (1959)
Oscar Wilde (1959)
1960s
Sunrise at Campobello (1960;
F. D. Roosevelt)
Trials of Oscar Wilde, The
(1960)
Velázquez (1960)
Lafayette (1961)
Rabindranath Tagore (1961)
Freud (1962)
Geronimo (1962)
Gypsy (1962; Louise 'Gypsy
Rose Lee' Hovick)
Hitler (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Wonderful World of the Brothers
Grimm, The (1962)
Karl Marks (1963)
PT 109 (1963; John F. Kennedy)
Becket (1964)
Finest Hours, The (1964;
Winston Churchill)
Franco: ese hombre (1964)
Agony and the Ecstasy, The
(1965; Michelangelo)
Aquella joven de blanco
(1965)
Eleanor Roosevelt Story,
The (1965)
Fabuleuse aventure de
Marco Polo, La (1965)
Garcilaso de la Vega
(1966)
Genghis Khan (1965)
Marco the Magnificent (1965;
Marco Polo)
Pasternak (1965)
Zurbarán, el pintor
de los monjes (1965)
Barefoot in Athens (1966;
Socrates) (TV)
Cervantes (1966)
Lamp at Midnight (1966;
Galileo) (TV)
Prise de pouvoir par
Louis XIV, La (1966) (TV)
From Chekhov with Love
(1968) (TV)
Lion in Winter, The (1968;
Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, etc.)
Isadora (1968; Duncan)
El 'Che' Guevara (1968)
Chaikovsky (1969; Tchaikovsky)
Andrei Rublyov (1969)
Che! (1969; Che Guevara)
De Sade (1969)
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
(1969)
Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo
rasskaza (1969; Chekhov)
1970s
Bullet for Pretty Boy,
A (1970; Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd)
Cromwell (1970)
Eye Hears, the Ear Sees,
The (1970; Norman McLaren)
Galicia y Rosalía
de Castro (1970)
Great Inimitable Mr.
Dickens, The (1970) (TV)
Great White Hope, The
(1970; Jack Johnson)
Julius Caesar (1970)
Patton (1970)
Chyornye sukhari (1971;
Lenin)
Evel Knievel (1971)
Goya, historia de una
soledad (1971)
Krasnaya palatka (The
Red Tent; 1971; General Umberto Nobile, Roald Amundsen)
Salvador Dalí (1971)
Agostino d'Ippona (1972;
Augustine of Hippo)
Darwin Adventure, The
(1972)
Ludwig (1972; the King of
Bavaria)
Dillinger (1973)
Frank Capra (1973)
George qui? (1973; George
Sand)
Goya (1973)
Kopernik (1973; Copernicus)
King Vidor (1973)
Walt Disney Story, The (1973)
Edvard Munch (1974) (TV)
Idi Amin Dada (1974)
Lenny (1974)
Mahler (1974)
Mussolini: Ultimo atto (1974)
Capone (1975)
Gentleman Tramp, The
(1975; Charles Chaplin)
Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975;
Truman)
Great (1975; Isambard
Kingdom Brunel)
Lisztomania (1975; Liszt)
Lorraine Hansberry: The
Black Experience in the Creation of Drama (1975)
Moses the Lawgiver (1975)
(TV)
Beethoven - Tage aus einem
Leben (1976)
Bound for Glory (1976; Woody
Guthrie)
Desencanto, El (1976;
Leopoldo Panero)
Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976;
Marilyn Monroe)
Great Houdini, The (1976)
(TV)
Junge Freud, Der (1976)
(TV)
Message, The (1976; Mohammed)
Good Dissonance Like a
Man, A (1977; Charles Ives)
Greased Lightning (1977;
Wendell Scott)
Greatest, The (1977;
Muhammad Ali)
MacArthur (1977)
Scott Joplin (1977)
Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba
(1977)
All That Jazz (1979; Bob
Fosse)
Bolívar, sinfonía
tropikal (1979)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to
an Artist (1979)
Les Soeurs Brontë (1979)
1980s
Coal Miner's Daughter
(1980; Loretta Lynn)
Dvadtsat' shest' dnej
iz zhizni Dostoyevskogo (1980; Dostoyevsky)
Fantastic World of M.C.
Escher, The (1980)
Céleste (1981;
Marcel Proust)
Chanel Solitaire (1981;
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel)
Dief! (1981; John Diefenbaker)
From a Far Country (1981;
Pope John Paul II)
New York Beat Movie (1981;
Jean Michel Basquiat)
Reds (1981; John Reed)
Eleanor, First Lady of
the World (1982) (TV)
Gandhi (1982)
"Marco Polo" (1982) (mini
series)
Adi Shankaracharya (1983;
Sankara)
Anna Pavlova (1983)
Cross Creek (1983; Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings)
Danton (1983)
For Us the Living: The
Medgar Evers Story (1983) (TV)
Amadeus (1984; Mozart)
Bear, The (1984; Paul
"Bear" Bryant)
Compleat Beatles, The
(1984)
Frida, naturaleza viva
(1984; Frida Kahlo)
I'm Almost Not Crazy: John
Cassavetes - the Man and His Work (1984)
Qiu Jin (1984)
Sakharov (1984) (TV)
D'Annunzio (1985)
Dreamchild (1985; Lewis
Carroll via Alice Hargreaves)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's
Journey (1985)
Going for the Gold: The
Bill Johnson Story (1985) (TV)
Gothic (1986: Lord Byron,
Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley)
Kerouac, the Movie (1985)
Mishima: A Life in Four
Chapters (1985)
Mussolini: The Decline
and Fall of Il Duce (1985) (TV)
Caravaggio (1986)
Caspar David Friedrich
- Grenzen der Zeit (1986)
Frida, naturaleza viva
(1986; Kahlo)
Oviri (1986; Gauguin)
Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Eternamente Pagu (1987;
Patrícia "Pagu" Galvão)
Frère André,
Le (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987;
Joe Orton)
Bernadette (1988)
Bird (1988; Charlie Parker)
Buster (1988; Buster
Edwards)
Camille Claudel (1988)
Forever James Dean (1988)
Gorillas in the Mist: The
Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
Golub (1988)
Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
John Huston: The Man, the
Movies, the Maverick (1988)
Last Temptation of Christ,
The (1988)
Los Amores de Kafka (1988)
Tucker: The Man and His
Dream (1988)
Blaze (1989; Earl Long)
Born on the Fourth of
July (1989; Ron Kovic)
Divided Loyalties (1989;
Joseph Brant)
Francesco (1989; St. Francis
of Assisi)
Goldeneye: The Secret
Life of Ian Fleming (1989) (TV)
Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn
(1989; Marilyn Monroe)
Great Balls of Fire!
(1989; Jerry Lee Lewis)
My Left Foot (1989: Christy
Brown)
1990s
Becoming Colette (1991)
Bix (1991: Bix Beiderbecke)
Bugsy (1991: Bugsy Siegel)
Doors, The (1991: Jim
Morrison)
Edward II (1991)
Gary Cooper: American
Life, American Legend (1991)
Max Ernst: Mein Vagabundieren
- Meine Unruhe (1991)
Preminger: Anatomy of a
Filmmaker (1991)
Babe, The (1992; Babe
Ruth)
Chaplin (1992)
Christopher Columbus:
The Discovery (1992)
Colours of My Father:
A Portrait of Sam Borenstein, The (1992)
Dia do Desespero, O (1992;
Camilo Castelo Branco)
Diego Rivera: I Paint
What I See (1992)
1492: Conquest of Paradise
(1992; Christopher Columbus)
Frida Kahlo: A Ribbon
Around a Bomb (1992)
Hoffa (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
Music for the Movies: Bernard
Herrmann (1992)
Oliver Stone (1992)
Sol del membrillo, El (1992;
Antonio López García)
Tombeau d'Alexandre, Le
(1992; Aleksandr Medvedkin)
Zhou Enlai (1992; Chou En-lai)
Chopin - Bilder einer
Trennung (1993)
Dragon: The Bruce Lee
Story (1993)
Elvis In Hollywood (1993)
En compagnie d'Antonin
Artaud (1993)
Geronimo (1993) (TV)
Gypsy (1993; Louise 'Gypsy
Rose Lee' Hovick) (TV)
Jack L. Warner: The Last
Mogul (1993)
Life and Times of Allen
Ginsberg, The (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Shadowlands (1993; C.S.
Lewis)
Thirty Two Short Films
About Glenn Gould (1993)
Wittgenstein (1993)
Sound and the Silence,
The (1993; Alexander Graham Bell) (TV)
Trotsky (1993)
Backbeat (1994; The Beatles)
Bandit Queen (1994; Phoolan
Devi)
Cobb (1994)
Crumb (1994)
Ed Wood (1994)
Ernesto Che Chuevara,
das bolivianische Tagebuch (1994)
Frank and Jesse (1994;
Frank and Jesse James)
Immortal Beloved (1994;
Beethoven)
The Life and Times of
Allen Ginsberg (1994)
Mesmer (1994)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious
Circle (1994)
Passion of John Ruskin,
The (1994)
Theremin: An Electronic
Odyssey (1994)
Tom & Viv (1994; T.
S. Eliot)
Tracking Down Maggie: The
Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher (1994)
Braveheart (1995; William
Wallace)
Bruckners Entscheidung
(1995; Anton Bruckner)
Carrington (1995; Dora
Carrington and Lytton Strachey)
Donald Brittain: Filmmaker
(1995)
Elia Kazan: A Director's
Journey (1995)
Forever Jung (1995) (V)
From the Journals of
Jean Seberg (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Kingfish: A Story of
Huey P. Long (1995) (TV)
Nixon (1995)
Total Eclipse (1995; Rimbaud)
Basquiat (1996)
Breaking the Code (1996;
Alan Turing) (TV)
Dexter Gordon: More Than
You Know (1996)
Einstein Revealed (1996)
(TV)
Eva Perón (1996)
Evita (1996)
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin,
White Mask (1996)
Gotti (1996) (TV)
Hamsun (1996)
Handel's Last Chance
(1996) (TV)
Infinity (1996; Richard
Feynman)
Mandela (1996)
Michael Collins (1996)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Timothy Leary's Dead (1996)
People vs. Larry Flynt,
The (1996)
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography
in Four Voices (1996)
Artemisia (1997; Artemisia
Gentileschi)
Com O Oceano Inteiro
Para Nadar (1997; Leonilson)
Disappearance of Garcia
Lorca, The (1997)
Fight in the Fields,
The (1997; Cesar Chavez)
George Wallace (1997)
(TV)
Get to the Heart: The
Barbara Mandrell Story (1997) (TV)
Gilda Radner: The E!
True Hollywood Story (1997) (TV)
Grüningers Fall
(1997)
Mother Teresa: In the Name
of God's Poor (1997)
Mrs. Brown (1997; Queen
Victoria)
Wilde (1997)
Charles Mingus: Triumph
of the Underdog (1998)
Cream Will Rise, The
(1998; Sophie B. Hawkins)
Dancemaker (1998; Paul Taylor)
Donald Cammell: The Ultimate
Performance (1998)
Eisenstein: The Master's
House (1998)
Elizabeth (1998)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1998)
General, The (1998; Martin
Cahill)
Ghosts of Dickens' Past,
The (1998)
Glory & Honor (1998;
Mathew Henson) (TV)
Gods and Monsters (1998;
James Whale)
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Braut, Die (1999; Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe)
Endurance (1999; Haile
Gebrselassie)
Genius of Lenny Breau, The
(1999)
Goya en
Burdeos (1999)
Green Monster, The (1999;
Art Arfons) (TV)
Man on the Moon (1999; Andy
Kaufman)
Me & Isaac Newton (1999;
Gertrude Elion, Ashok Gadgil, Michio Kaku, Maja Materic, Steven Pinker,
Karol Sikora and Patricia C. Wright)
Passion (1999; Percy Grainger)
Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive
Genius (1999)
Topsy-Turvy (1999; Gilbert
and Sullivan)
2000s
Booye kafoor, atre yas (Smell
of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine, 2000; Bahman Farmanara)
Borstal Boy (2000; Brendan
Behan)
Butterfly (2000; Julia "Butterfly"
Hill) (TV)
Cinéma de notre temps:
une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch (2000; Andrei Tarkovsky)
Condo Painting (2000; George
Condo)
Erika und Klaus Mann Story,
Die (2000; brilliant children of German writer Thomas Mann)
Glenn Miller's Last Flight
(2000) (TV)
Hendrix (2000) (TV)
Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000;
Julia Query)
Lumumba (2000)
Michael Jordan to the Max
(2000)
Nora (2000; James Joyce)
Pandaemonium (2000; Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth)
Pollock (2000)
Quills (2000; The Marquis
de Sade)
Rated X (2000: Mitchell
Brothers)
Rebels with a Cause (2000;
Students for a Democratic Society)
Sade (2000)
Steal This Movie (2000;
Abbie Hoffman)
Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de
Paixão (2000)
Ali (2001)
Asoka (2001)
Beautiful Mind (2001; John
Nash)
Blow (2001; George Jung)
Bride of the Wind (2001;
Alma Mahler)
Chop Suey (2001; Bruce Weber)
Devil You Know: Inside
the Mind of Todd McFarlane, The (2001)
Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky,
The (2001)
Flash of a Dream (2001;
Jacob A. Riis)
Ghost of Roger Casement,
The (2001)
Kriegerin des Lichts
(Warrior of Light, 2001; Yvonne Bezzerra de Mello)
Piñero (2001)
Rivers and Tides (2001;
Andy Goldsworthy)
Semmelweis (2001)
Taking Sides (2001;
Wilhelm Furtwangler)
War Photographer (2001;
James Nachtwey)
Callas Forever (2002)
Derrida (2002)
8 Mile (2002; Eminem)
Fellini: Je suis un grand
menteur (Fellini: I'm a Big Liar; 2002)
Fidel (2002; Castro) (TV)
Frida (2002; Kahlo)
Gleason (2002) (TV)
Hand on the Pulse (2002;
Joan Nestle)
How to Draw a Bunny (2002;
Ray Johnson)
Im Spiegel der Maya Deren
(In the Mirror of Maya Deren; 2002)
Kid Stays In the Picture,
The (2002; Robert Evans)
Last Dance (2002; dance
company Pilobolus and Maurice Sendak)
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
(2002)
My Father, the Genius (2002;
Glen Howard Small)
Not Nude Though: A Portrait
of Rudy Burckhardt (2002)
Prisoner of Paradise
(2002; Kurt Gerron)
The Weather Underground
(2002)
Yves Saint Laurent 5
avenue Marceau 75116 Paris (2002)
The Agronomist (2003;
Jean Dominique)
Bonhoeffer (2003)
Bukowski: Born into
This (2003)
Charlie: The Life and
Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Dracula's Bram Stoker
(2003) (TV)
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons
from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The (2003)
Forbidden Photographs:
The Life and Work of Charles Gatewood (2003)
Game Over: Kasparov and
the Machine (2003)
Genius: Charles Darwin
(2003) (V)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Biographie eines Blicks (2003)
Imelda (2003; Marcos)
Just an American Boy
(2003; Steve Earle)
Let's Get Frank (2003;
Barney Frank)
Luther (2003)
Mayor of the Sunset
Strip (2003; Rodney Bingenheimer)
My Architect (2003; Louis
Kahn)
Overnight (2003; Troy
Duffy)
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Sylvia (2003; Plath)
Tom Dowd & the Language
of Music (2003)
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Alexander (2004; Alexander
the Great)
Aviator, The (2004; Howard
Hughes)
Be Here to Love Me:
A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004)
Bobby Jones, Stroke of
Genius (2004)
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma
of a Sorcerer (2004)
Chisholm '72: Unbought
& Unbossed (2004)
Citizen King (2004; Martin
Luther King, Jr.)
De-Lovely (2004; Cole
Porter)
Derek Jarman: Life as
Art (2004)
Le Fantôme d'Henri
Langlois(2004)
Finding Neverland (2004;
J. M. Barrie)
Genghis Khan (2004)
Ingmar Bergman - 3 dokumentärer
om film, teater, Fårö och livet av Marie Nyreröd (2004)
(TV)
In the Realms of the Unreal
(2004; Henry Darger)
It's All Gone Pete Tong
(2004; Frankie Wilde)
Kinsey (2004)
Libertine, The (2004;
John Wilmot)
Mar adentro (2004; Ramon
Sampedro)
Metallica: Some Kind
of Monster (2004)
Modigliani (2004)
Monumental: David Brower's
Fight for Wild America (2004)
Moog (2004)
Motorcycle Diaries, The
(2004; Che Guevara)
The Nomi Song (2004)
Ray (2004; Ray Charles)
Thérèse:
The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (2004)
Tell Them Who You Are
(2004)
Untergang, Der (2004; Adolf
Hitler)
Z Channel: A Magnificent
Obsession (2004; TV; Jerry Harvey)
Buzz (2005; Albert Isaac
"Buzz" Bezzerides)
Capote (2005)
Devil and Daniel Johnston,
The (2005)
The Fall of Fujimori (2005)
Giuliani Time (2005)
Good Night, and Good
Luck (2005; Edward R. Morrow)
How to Eat Your Watermelon
in White Company (and Enjoy It) (2005; Melvin Van Peebles)
The Keeper: The Legend of
Omar Khayyam (2005)
The Lady in Question
Is Charles Busch (2005)
The Last Mogul (2005;
Lew Wasserman)
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your
Man (2005)
The Outsider (2005; James
Toback)
The Real Dirt on Farmer
John (2005; John Peterson)
Sketches of Frank Gehry
(2005)
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten
Tage (2005)
Trudell (2005)
Walk the Line (2005;
Johnny Cash)
William Eggleston in
the Real World (2005)
Zizek! (2005)
The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)
This Filthy World (2006;
John Waters)
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait
of Diane Arbus (2006)
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Infamous (2006; Truman Capote)
Jonestown: The Life
and Death of Peoples Temple (2006; Reverend Jones)
loudQUIETloud: A Film
About the Pixies (2006)
A Man Named Pearl (2006;
Pearl Fryar)
Scott Walker: 30 Century
Man (2006)
Tales of the Rat Fink (2006;
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth)
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright
Tony Kushner (2006)
Anita O'Day: The Life
of a Jazz Singer (2007)
Charlie Wilson's War
(2007)
Elizabeth: The Golden
Age (2007; Elizabeth I of England)
I Have Never Forgotten
You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)
I'm Not There (2007;
Bob Dylan)
La Môme (La vie
en rose, 2007; Edith Piaf)
Mongol (2007; Genghis
Khan)
Flash of Genius (2008;
Robert Kearns)
Gonzo: The Life and
Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
Milk (2008)
Patti Smith: Dream of
Life (2008)
Roman Polanski: Wanted
and Desired (2008)
Séraphine (2008;
Séraphine de Senlis)
Hannibal the Conqueror
(2009) [in production with Vin Diesel in the staring role!]
Notorious (2009; Notorious
B.I.G. a.k.a. Christopher Wallace)
The foregoing movies are all attempts to portray real-life exemplars of genius. Yet there are also plenty examples of films that present fictional instances of genius or talent, as the following movies illustrate:
Rebel, The (1961)
Charly (1968)
On the Right Track (1981)
Malcolm (1986)
Lubinghua (1989)
Anna to the Infinite
Power (1983)
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
(1983) (TV)
Real Genius (1985)
Bröderna Mozart (Mozart
Brothers; 1986)
Moderns, The (1988)
Young Einstein (1988)
Sheltering Sky, The (1990;
loosely based on Paul Bowles)
And You Thought Your Parents
Were Weird (1991)
Little Man Tate (1991)
Searching for Bobby Fischer
(1993)
Dark Side of Genius (1994)
I.Q. (1994; with fictitious
Albert Einstein)
Forgotten Silver (1995)
Powder (1995)
Matilda (1996)
Conceiving Ada (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Pi (1998)
Zero Effect (1998)
Baby Geniuses (1999)
Molly (1999)
Tic Code, The (1999)
Bruno (2000)
Esther Kahn (2000)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Luzhin Defence, The (2000)
Strange Case of Señor
Computer, The (2000)
Caveman's Valentine, The
(2001)
Enigma (2001)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
(2001)
Piñero (2001)
Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
If? (2002)
Alex & Emma (2003)
Madness and Genius (2003)
Declaring Genius (2004)
Elsa Letterseed (2004)
No Pain, No Gain (2004)
The Phantom of the Opera
(2004)
Raising Genius (2004)
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses
2 (2004)
Me and You and Everyone
We Know (2005)
Vitus (2006)
Iron Man (2006)
Nobel Son (2007)
What Just Happened?
(2008)
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