Biopic

Yesterday , my husband and me watched an Oscar winning movie called the Last Emperor. It was about the Last Emperor of China , Puyin . The story was a biography of the emperor and the word biopic came to my mind.

What is a biopic?

We've heard of biographies where the life of a person is written by another person.
We've heard of autobiographies where the life of a person is written by himself/herself.
Biopics is actually  biographical motion picture

Biographical Motion Picture (Biopic)

It is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.

Example of  Biopics : Man on the Moon  is a biopic on the American Entertainer Andy Kauffman played by Jim Carrey. , The Last Emperor is a biopic on the last emperor of China , Meryl Streep plays the part of Julia in Julie and Julia .