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Eva Peron: The Actress Whose Life, Death, and Embalmed Body Rewrote Argentine History
Jun 15, 202623 min
Augusto Pinochet: The General Whose Crimes Defined the Meaning of Dictatorial Impunity
Jun 15, 202624 min
Josip Broz Tito: The Only Man Who Told Stalin to Stop Sending Assassins
Jun 15, 202618 min
Patrick Henry: The Messy Reality Behind 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'
Jun 15, 202621 min
James Madison: The Five-Foot-Four Frail Man Who Engineered the American Constitution
Jun 15, 202622 min
Benjamin Franklin: The Fugitive Apprentice on the Hundred Dollar Bill
Jun 15, 202622 min
Charles de Gaulle: The General Who Believed He Was France Itself
Jun 15, 202621 min
Peter the Great: The Seven-Foot Giant Who Dragged Russia Into the Modern World by Force
Jun 15, 202621 min
Akbar the Great: The Illiterate Mughal Emperor Who Built History's Most Remarkable Library
Jun 15, 202624 min
Louis XVI: The Locksmith King Whose Hobbies Couldn't Save Him From the Guillotine
Jun 15, 202620 min
Harry Truman: The Failed Haberdasher Who Dropped the Bomb and Remade the World
Jun 15, 202623 min
Shah Jahan: The Brutal Mughal King Who Built the Taj Mahal for Love
Jun 15, 202620 min
Lyndon Johnson: The Brutal Paradox of America's Most Effective and Most Tragic President
Jun 15, 202624 min
Paul Revere: The Copper Titan and Master Craftsman Behind the Midnight Ride
Jun 15, 202620 min
Nicholas II: The Last Tsar, the Diamond-Studded Armor, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Jun 15, 202624 min
Park Chung-hee: The Military Dictator Behind South Korea's Violent Economic Miracle
Jun 15, 202621 min
Richard Nixon: From Poker-Playing Navy Officer to Watergate and the Fall of a Presidency
Jun 15, 202625 min
Salvador Allende: Chile's Elected Socialist and the Other September 11th
Jun 15, 202620 min
Napoleon Bonaparte: The Corsican Artillery Officer Whose Brutal Genius Remade Europe
Jun 15, 202621 min
Kim Il-sung: How a Guerrilla Fighter Made Himself North Korea's Eternal President
Jun 15, 202624 min
Louis XIV: How a Terrified Child King Built Himself Into the Sun
Jun 15, 202623 min
John Jay: The First Chief Justice Whose Treaty Made America Burn Him in Effigy
Jun 15, 202623 min
John Quincy Adams: The President Whose Greatest Work Came After the White House
Jun 15, 202620 min
Marie Antoinette: The Austrian Teenager Used as a Pawn and Executed as a Scapegoat
Jun 15, 202625 min
Alexander Hamilton: The Brilliant Self-Destructive Genius Who Built American Finance
Jun 15, 202623 min
Che Guevara: From Argentine Guerrilla Fighter to the World's Most Profitable Capitalist Brand
Jun 15, 202624 min
Margaret Thatcher: From Rejected Chemistry Graduate to the Iron Lady Who Remade Britain
Jun 15, 202621 min
Fidel Castro: How a Wealthy Landowner's Son Became the Western Hemisphere's Most Enduring Revolutionary
Jun 15, 202626 min
Aurangzeb: The Pious Emperor Whose Fanaticism Broke the Mughal Empire
Jun 15, 202621 min
Pocahontas: The Real Political Genius Behind America's Most Mythologized Native Woman
Jun 14, 202621 min
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: The Rebel Nun Who Outsmarted the Spanish Inquisition
Jun 14, 202621 min
Frederic Chopin: The Smuggled Heart and the Music That Made a Nation Weep
Jun 14, 202622 min
Crazy Horse: The Warrior Who Refused Every Photograph and Defeated Custer
Jun 14, 202619 min
Akira Kurosawa: The Director Who Never Looked Away and Taught Hollywood How to See
Jun 14, 202621 min
Greta Garbo: The Biggest Star in Hollywood Who Vanished in Plain Sight
Jun 14, 202624 min
Sacagawea: The Many Lives and Competing Myths of Lewis and Clark's Most Famous Guide
Jun 14, 202622 min
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Private Agony Behind Swan Lake and the 1812 Overture
Jun 14, 202620 min
Walt Disney: The Private Obsessions Behind the Magic Kingdom
Jun 14, 202623 min
Malcolm X: The Radical Reinventions of America's Most Misunderstood Civil Rights Leader
Jun 14, 202626 min
Pele: The Real Man Behind the Myth of Football's Greatest Player
Jun 14, 202619 min
Thomas Aquinas: How the 'Dumb Ox' Mapped the Entire Universe With Pure Reason
Jun 14, 202622 min
Jackie Robinson: The Fierce, Uncompromising Reality Behind Baseball's Integration Pioneer
Jun 14, 202623 min
John Calvin: The Fugitive Lawyer Who Wired the Psychological Foundations of Modern Capitalism
Jun 14, 202622 min
Saint Augustine: The Hedonist Who Mapped the Human Mind and Invented the Autobiography
Jun 14, 202622 min
Brigham Young: The House Painter From Vermont Who Built an Empire of 56 Wives
Jun 14, 202623 min
Sitting Bull: From Holy Man and Warrior Chief to Buffalo Bill's Traveling Show
Jun 14, 202623 min
Sonja Henie: The Norwegian Figure Skater Who Conquered Olympic Ice and Hollywood
Jun 14, 202622 min
Cesar Chavez: The Labor Hero Whose Legacy Unraveled Under Scrutiny
Jun 14, 202619 min
The Dalai Lama: The Secret Geopolitical Chess Game Behind the Spiritual Leader
Jun 14, 202620 min
Serena Williams: The Defiant Evolution of Tennis's Most Dominant Champion
Jun 14, 202618 min