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Martin Luther: The Monk Who Nailed a Protest to a Church Door and Started History's First Viral Revolution

Jun 14, 202625 min

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Thirty-Nine-Year-Old With a Sixty-Year-Old Heart

Jun 14, 202624 min

Mother Teresa: The Secret Fifty-Year Faith Crisis Behind the World's Most Famous Saint

Jun 14, 202620 min

Orson Welles: The Genius Who Made the Greatest Film Ever and Spent Forty Years Hustling for the Next One

Jun 14, 202618 min

Richard Wagner: The Composer Who Invented the Modern Movie Experience Before Movies Existed

Jun 14, 202621 min

Claude Monet: The Impressionist Who Kept Painting as His Eyesight Disappeared

Jun 14, 202619 min

Alfred Hitchcock: How the Master of Suspense Became the Man He Feared

Jun 14, 202621 min

Joe Louis: The Heavyweight Champion Who Fought Hitler and Then Lost Everything to the IRS

Jun 14, 202621 min

Diego Maradona: The Thief, the Artist, and the Most Controversial Genius in Football History

Jun 14, 202621 min

Marilyn Monroe: The Strategic Mind Behind Hollywood's Most Underestimated Icon

Jun 14, 202623 min

Alice Paul: The Militant Suffragist Who Forced America to Give Women the Vote

Jun 14, 202620 min

Audrey Hepburn: From Starving Dutch Resistance Child to Hollywood's Most Beloved Icon

Jun 14, 202620 min

Francis of Assisi: The Radical Saint Behind the Garden Birdbath Statues

Jun 14, 202624 min

Joseph Smith: From Treasure Hunter With a Seer Stone to Presidential Martyr

Jun 14, 202615 min

Geronimo: From Feared Apache Warrior to Prisoner of War and Human Exhibition

Jun 14, 202620 min

Albert Camus: The Rebellious Life of the Philosopher Who Chose the Sun Over Ideology

Jun 14, 202622 min

Babe Ruth: The Reformatory Boy Who Became Baseball's Greatest Legend

Jun 14, 202625 min

Frank Sinatra: The Scars, the Rage, and the Voice That Defined an Era

Jun 14, 202620 min

Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Widow Who Saved Vincent van Gogh's Art From Oblivion

Jun 14, 202621 min

Wilma Rudolph: The Polio Survivor Who Outran Segregation and Won Three Olympic Golds

Jun 14, 202619 min

Pablo Picasso: The Genius, the Cruelty, and the Women He Destroyed

Jun 14, 202620 min

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Human Drama Behind the Silent Genius Who Changed Music Forever

Jun 14, 202620 min

Henri Matisse: The Law Clerk Who Painted with Scissors and Reinvented Art Twice

Jun 14, 202623 min

Langston Hughes: The Many Masks of the Poet Who Gave Black America Its Voice

Jun 14, 202618 min

Billie Jean King: The Price She Paid for Revolutionizing Women's Sports

Jun 14, 202618 min

J.P. Morgan: The Banker Who Bailed Out America When the Government Couldn't

Jun 14, 202622 min

Raphael: The Calculated Ambition Behind the Renaissance's Most Charming Genius

Jun 14, 202622 min

Salvador Dali: The Calculated Madness Behind Surrealism's Most Famous Showman

Jun 14, 202619 min

Henry Ford: The Dark Paradox of the Man Who Democratized the Automobile

Jun 14, 202618 min

Gustav Klimt: The Forest Demon Behind the Gold Leaf Masterpieces

Jun 14, 202623 min

Louis Armstrong: From a New Orleans Reformatory to the Golden Record in Space

Jun 14, 202622 min

Muhammad Ali: The Fighter, the Exile, and the Man Beyond the Highlight Reel

Jun 14, 202620 min

Rembrandt: The Ruthless Rise and Spectacular Financial Downfall of Art's Greatest Master

Jun 14, 202620 min

Rosa Parks: The Trained Activist and Radical Strategist Behind the Bus Boycott

Jun 14, 202616 min

T.S. Eliot: The Bank Clerk Who Shattered Poetry and Rebuilt It From the Ruins

Jun 14, 202622 min

Duke Ellington: The Bandleader Who Faked His Greatest Live Masterpiece

Jun 14, 202620 min

Toni Morrison: The Editor Who Rebuilt the American Literary Canon

Jun 14, 202621 min

Howard Hughes: The Billionaire Aviator Who Built an Invisible Empire and Vanished Into Madness

Jun 14, 202622 min

James Baldwin: The Prophetic Voice Who Told America What It Refused to Hear

Jun 14, 202618 min

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Church Organist Who Was Actually History's First Programmer

Jun 14, 202620 min

Jesse Owens: Four Gold Medals, a Dictator's Humiliation, and a Freight Elevator at His Own Party

Jun 14, 202622 min

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Ruthless Fight to Define Herself on Her Own Terms

Jun 14, 202622 min

Aretha Franklin: The Preacher's Daughter Who Claimed Every Song She Touched

Jun 14, 202619 min

Bette Davis: The Actress Who Broke the Hollywood Studio System

Jun 14, 202623 min

Bob Dylan: The Master Shapeshifter Who Reinvented Himself Every Time the World Caught Up

Jun 14, 202622 min

Jorge Luis Borges: The Blind Librarian Who Predicted the Internet

Jun 14, 202620 min

Buster Keaton: The Stone-Faced Genius Who Never Flinched

Jun 14, 202623 min

Charlie Chaplin: Scandalous Exile, FBI Persecution, and the Theft of His Own Corpse

Jun 14, 202619 min

Dolores Huerta: The Co-Founder of the Farm Workers Movement and Her Sixty-Year Secret

Jun 14, 202624 min

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Complicated Radical Who Launched the Women's Rights Revolution

Jun 14, 202620 min