10. Madame Curie, 1943
The famed female scientist fights to keep her marriage together while conducting early experiments with radioactivity.
9. Temple Grandin, 2010
An autistic girl, Temple Grandin, overcomes the limitations imposed on her by her condition, and becomes an expert in the field of animal husbandry.
8. The Story of Louis Pasteur, 1936
The story of the scientific genius Louis Pasteur who conquered deadly diseases. It is the Russians who realize his genius, and France finally honors him.
7. Hawking, 2013
We look into the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who is Director of Research at the University of Cambridge's Center for Theoretical Cosmology.
6. Galileo, 1975
Revolutionary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (Topol) makes a series of observations of the Venetian night sky that he believes confirm the veracity of the Copernican model of the universe -- a model that places the sun, rather than the Earth, at its center. As Galileo rises to prominence, he moves his base of operations to Florence, where his ideas, considered blasphemous, come under the increased scrutiny of officials in the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church.
5. Creation, 2009
Charles Darwin, a naturalist, struggles to maintain stability in life when he is unable to balance his evolutionary theories and the religious beliefs of his wife.
4. The Imitation Game, 2014
In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma -- which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing's team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison.
3. Awakenings, 1990
Dr. Malcolm Sayer tastes partial success after implementing the drug L-Dopa on his catatonic patient Leonard. This gives the other patients a ray of hope and a new zeal to experience life.
2. The Theory of Everything, 2014
A look at the life of renowned scientist Stephen Hawking and his love affair with Jane. He was diagnosed with the motor neuron disease but that didn't stop him from becoming a brilliant mind.
1. A Beautiful Mind, 2001
John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematical genius, finds himself in pain when he encounters a cruel disorder. He ultimately overcomes his struggles and emerges free of any trauma.
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