10 Great Music Film Biopics You Have To See

Following his untimely death, Chadwick Boseman left behind a short but startling career, with an uncanny knack for bringing real-life, pioneering African Americans to the screen. Portraying Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and T'Challa/Black Panther in the MCU, Boseman will forever be remembered as a passionate and influential actor.

In Get On Up (2014), he played James Brown and gave what might just be his strongest ever performance. The film follows Brown's early life to his meteoric rise to fame, to his various relationships and his biggest mistakes and misfortunes, to his endless passion for music and his near-unrivalled effect on the music industry.

With a constantly shifting, non-linear narrative and numerous characters introduced throughout the film's runtime, Get On Up never loses momentum, never hits a bump and never feels sloppy or forced. It is at once tragic, funny, sweet and moving, and perfectly captures the Godfather of Soul's immeasurable talent and endless energy.

Boseman is on terrific form as the singer, aided by an equally stunning cast rounded out by Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Lennie James, and Craig Robinson. A guaranteed future classic, Get On Up is the best the biopic medium has to offer - an emotional rollercoaster you never want to end.