The opposite of sex (christina ricci's in it)
The People vs Larry Flynt (title explains it)
Quills (about the final days of marquis de sade)
Osama (about a young girl in afghanistan, under the taliban, who goes to work as a boy)
Man on the moon (jim carey movie about the life of andy kaufman)
Dune and Children of dune (sci fi channel versions)
The Great Dictator (charlie chaplin movie making fun of the nazi's, made in 1940)
I'd probably add hotel rwanda to that list, but it's still sitting on my unwatched shelf.