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Stanley Kubrick: The Bronx Chess Hustler Who Played Hollywood Like a Grandmaster
Jun 15, 202622 min
Humphrey Bogart: The Upper-Class Prep School Kid Who Became Hollywood's Toughest Guy
Jun 15, 202621 min
Jack Nicklaus: How the Golden Bear Outsmarted Golf With His Mind Instead of His Swing
Jun 15, 202622 min
Mike Tyson: The Youngest Heavyweight Champion Who Had to Survive His Own Legend
Jun 15, 202619 min
Wangari Maathai: The Kenyan Biologist Who Planted Trees and Started a Revolution
Jun 15, 202621 min
Wayne Gretzky: How Hockey's Smallest Star Outsmarted the Biggest Sport in Canada
Jun 15, 202623 min
Francis Ford Coppola: How a Winery Bought the Godfather Director His Creative Freedom
Jun 15, 202621 min
Ingmar Bergman: The Director Who Turned His Childhood Terrors Into Cinema's Most Intimate Art
Jun 15, 202619 min
James Dean: Three Films, One Car Crash, and the Invention of Teenage Cool
Jun 15, 202620 min
Grace Kelly: The Calculated Path From Hollywood Royalty to Actual Royalty in Monaco
Jun 15, 202618 min
Cary Grant: How a Runaway Named Archie Leach Invented Hollywood's Most Perfect Man
Jun 15, 202618 min
Arthur Ashe: How Tennis's Quiet Revolutionary Weaponized His Racket Against Apartheid and AIDS
Jun 15, 202619 min
Federico Fellini: The Director Who Stopped Filming Reality and Started Filming His Dreams
Jun 15, 202621 min
Hank Aaron: The Man Who Broke Babe Ruth's Record and Survived the Death Threats That Came With It
Jun 15, 202619 min
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How Basketball Became the Trojan Horse for His Real Mission
Jun 15, 202618 min
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How Basketball Became the Trojan Horse for His Real Mission
Jun 15, 202618 min
Booker T. Washington: The Secret Double Life of America's Most Powerful Black Leader
Jun 15, 202621 min
Elizabeth Taylor: The Child Star Who Broke the Hollywood Machine and Rewrote the Rules
Jun 15, 202618 min
Helen Keller: From the Water Pump Miracle to the Radical Socialist History Forgot
Jun 15, 202621 min
Cormac McCarthy: The Uncompromising Recluse Who Wrote America's Darkest Masterpieces
Jun 15, 202616 min
Diego Velazquez: The Court Painter Who Captured Truth and Faked His Own Noble Bloodline
Jun 15, 202623 min
Katsushika Hokusai: The Artist Who Produced 30,000 Works and Still Felt Like an Amateur
Jun 15, 202621 min
Jean Sibelius: The Finnish National Hero Who Burned His Eighth Symphony and Went Silent
Jun 15, 202620 min
Edouard Manet: The Painter Whose Art Was So Shocking It Needed Armed Guards
Jun 15, 202624 min
William Faulkner: The Nobel Winner Who Failed English Class and Reinvented the American Novel
Jun 15, 202621 min
Franz Liszt: The Piano Rockstar Who Became a Monk and Invented the Modern Concert
Jun 15, 202625 min
Giacomo Puccini: The Operatic Genius Whose Scandalous Private Life Nearly Destroyed Him
Jun 15, 202625 min
Robert Frost: The Secret Darkness Behind America's Favorite Folksy Poet
Jun 15, 202622 min
Joseph Haydn: The Starving Servant Who Invented the Symphony and the String Quartet
Jun 15, 202619 min
Johannes Vermeer: The Hidden Chaos Behind the Most Serene Paintings in Art History
Jun 15, 202624 min
P.T. Barnum: The Showman Who Invented Modern Hype and Made America Love Being Fooled
Jun 15, 202622 min
Edward Hopper: The Painter Who Captured American Loneliness Better Than Any Novelist
Jun 15, 202622 min
Paul Cezanne: The Painter Who Rebuilt the Modern Eye and Made Cubism Possible
Jun 15, 202622 min
Henry David Thoreau: The Messy Reality Behind Walden's Self-Reliant Mythology
Jun 15, 202622 min
Paul Gauguin: The Brutal Reality Behind the Tahitian Paradise He Painted
Jun 15, 202619 min
Charles Ives: The Insurance Executive Whose Weekend Compositions Defined American Music
Jun 15, 202619 min
John Steinbeck: The Nobel Laureate With a Dangerous Secret Life
Jun 15, 202622 min
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Dark Personal Losses Behind America's Most Radical Optimist
Jun 15, 202619 min
Piet Mondrian: The Eccentric Mystic and Jazz Fanatic Behind the Perfect Grids
Jun 15, 202621 min
Wassily Kandinsky: The Synesthete Who Heard Colors and Painted the Spiritual Sound of the Universe
Jun 15, 202622 min
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Arthritic Painter Who Fought for Beauty When Modernism Called It Irrelevant
Jun 15, 202622 min
Robert Schumann: The Dual Personalities, the Doomed Romance, and the Madness That Ended in the Rhine
Jun 15, 202621 min
J.M.W. Turner: The Barber's Son Who Scandalized Britain With Light and Fury
Jun 15, 202623 min
Edgar Degas: The Bitter, Brilliant Misanthrope Behind the Ballet Paintings
Jun 15, 202620 min
Gustav Mahler: The Tortured Conductor Who Built the Bridge From Romanticism to Modern Music
Jun 15, 202623 min
George Frideric Handel: The Sword-Fighting, Market-Crashing Composer Who Wrote Messiah in Twenty-Four Days
Jun 15, 202613 min
Hector Berlioz: The Obsessive Romantic Who Reinvented the Orchestra
Jun 15, 202620 min
Giuseppe Verdi: How Personal Tragedy Forged Italy's Greatest Opera Composer
Jun 15, 202624 min
Johannes Brahms: The Perfectionist Haunted by Beethoven's Shadow Who Burned His Own Music
Jun 15, 202622 min
Franz Schubert: The Composer Who Died at Thirty-One With 1,500 Hidden Masterpieces
Jun 15, 202623 min