Can I get the statistical data of number of biopics released since 1915 - till now in Bollywood film industry.

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I need the data for my doctoral research on Biopics. I will be highly grateful if could seek help from IMDB.
If there is anything prerequisite from side is needed to fetch the data kindly inform me, I will do it. 
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Reema: Much of the information you are seeking can be found from an Advanced Title Search at http://www.imdb.com/search/title. For example, you could search for Release Date of 1915 to 2016, Genre of Biography, Country of India, and under Display Options, select Year Ascending. That would generate the following search:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=in&genres=biography&release_date=1915,2016&so...

If you want to be more specific, such as limiting the Language to Hindi (to cover only Bollywood and not the other film industries in India), you can do that too:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=in&genres=biography&languages=hi&release_date...

These searches will give you a list of films rather than a number of films by each year, but you could limit the Release Date by each year and thus get an individual list of films for each year within your study.

For other types of analysis of IMDb data, you might need to use the plain text data files (see http://www.imdb.com/interfaces and consult with the information technology staff at your university for help). But the Advanced Title Searches I have described above should give you a good start to work with.

Good luck!
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Thanks for your suggestions and quick reply , I am looking into it.  

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