Cast: Pope John Paul II

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Pope John Paul II. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Man Who Would Be Polka King

2009 · Documentary · 69 min. · United States

5.9

46 votes

5.9

46 votes

Wojtyla. La investigación

2020 · Documentary · 75 min. · Spain

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

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Fidel Castro. Ewiger Revolutionär

2004 · Documentary · 44 min. · Germany

Direction Stephan Lamby · Volker Skierka

Cast Fidel Castro · Huber Matos · Wayne Smith · Margot Honecker

Plot Castro has outlived generations of US Presidents, Soviet General Secretaries, CIA Directors and would-be assassins. This film offers a psychological profile of the Cuban revolutionary, and a deeply intimate account...

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Everyman (TV Series)

1976 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William Nicholson · Judy Jackson · Hugh David · Nikki Stockley

Cast Peter France · Joan Bakewell · Spike Milligan · Jeremy Paxman

Plot Everyman is a British television documentary series that aired on BBC One in a late-night slot on Sunday evenings between 1977 and 2000. Its subject matter tended to be focused...

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The Death of God

2021 · Documentary · 87 min. · Argentina

Direction Ivan Kasanzew

Cast Diego Armando Maradona · Carlos Bilardo · Joseph Blatter · Fidel Castro

Plot The story of how the life of one of the greatest football players of all time, Diego Maradona, turned into complete madness: addiction to drugs; the violence he himself instigated;...

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Testimony: The Untold Story of Pope John Paul II (TV)

2008 · Documentary · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Pawel Pitera

Cast Stanislaw Dziwisz · Pope John Paul II · Witold Linhart

Plot Testimony is a groundbreaking feature film documentary event that chronicles the untold story of Pope John Paul II, a man who touched the lives of billions, and was one of...

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New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

1992 · Documentary · 207 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Karel Vachek

Cast Iveta Bartosová · John Bok · Egon Bondy · Willy Brandt

Plot From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and many-layered film-argument about Czechoslovak democracy in the period of its...

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Benedict XVI: The Keys of the Kingdom

2006 · Documentary · 60 min. · Vatican City

Cast Pope Benedict XVI · Pope John Paul II

Plot The documentary follows the dramatic last days of pope John Paul II until the election of Pope Benedict XVI to the throne of Peter.

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Holy father and gloria

1987 · Documentary · 43 min. · Cuba

Direction Estela Bravo

Cast Pope John Paul II · Augusto Pinochet · Carmen Gloria

Plot A moving account of Pope John Paul's 1987 visit to Chile, which ignited a massive outpouring against the repressive Pinochet regime. Bravo affectingly incorporates into this narrative the story of...

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