Watch elizabeth taylor biography movies

She's one of the world's most iconic movie stars, with a pair of rare violet-colored eyes to boot, but a new-to-TV documentary manages to reveal the woman behind the name Elizabeth Taylor.

One of the biggest celebrities of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor was a teen star turned Oscar-winning actress, known for famed roles in '50s and '60s films like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly, Last Summer, BUtterfield 8, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And she was equally as known for her personal life, especially her eight marriages to seven men, infamously on-and-off relationship to actor Richard Burton. 

And in the new HBO documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, premiering tonight, August 3 at 8pm Eastern Time, you'll get to hear that life story narrated the enigmatic star herself, "inviting audiences to rediscover not just a megastar of Hollywood’s Golden