The Jackie Robinson Story
The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Jackie Robinson as himself. The film focuses on Robinson's struggle with the abuse of bigots as he becomes the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era. The film is in part based on Robinson's own autobiography, My Own Story.
Lobby card
Ruby Dee and Joel Fluellen (center)
Screenplay cover
Photo from 1950 Lobby card promoting The Jackie Robinson Story, showing Jackie Robinson (as himself)
A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.
Chapaev, a 1934 biopic of Russian war hero Vasily Chapayev.