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David Lean: The Perfectionist Behind Cinema's Greatest Epics
Jun 23, 202621 min
Don Knotts: The Trauma That Built America's Funniest Coward
Jun 23, 202620 min
Doug Stanhope: The Anarchist Comic With a Rigid Moral Code
Jun 23, 202620 min
Eddie Griffin: From Scraping Paint to Comedy Hall of Fame
Jun 23, 202618 min
Edward Albee: The Playwright Who Broke the Pulitzer Prize
Jun 23, 202618 min
Empress Matilda: The Uncrowned Queen Who Founded a Dynasty
Jun 23, 202620 min
Lorenzo Ghiberti: 50 Years to Build the Gates of Paradise
Jun 23, 202623 min
Eric Morecambe: The Comic Who Worked Himself to Death
Jun 23, 202620 min
Alan Jay Lerner: Perfect Lyrics, A Chaotic Life
Jun 23, 202622 min
Aetius: How One Name Maps a Thousand Years of History
Jun 23, 202618 min
Saigō Takamori: The Rebel Who Helped Build Modern Japan, Then Fought It
Jun 19, 202621 min
Maharana Pratap: The Rajput Holdout Who Refused the Mughal Buyout I
Jun 19, 202619 min
B. R. Ambedkar: The Constitution Maker Who Warned Against Hero Worship
Jun 19, 202623 min
Al-Ghazali: The Scholar Who Walked Away From Everything
Jun 19, 202621 min
Tipu Sultan: The Tiger of Mysore Who Terrified an Empire
Jun 19, 202621 min
Wyatt Earp: The Lawman Who Tamed His Own Story
Jun 19, 202619 min
Al-Biruni: The Captive Scholar Who Measured the Earth and Studied His Enemies
Jun 19, 202621 min
Wild Bill Hickok: The Gunslinger Who Became His Own Myth
Jun 19, 202622 min
Jesse James: The Outlaw Myth America Wanted to Believe
Jun 19, 202623 min
Yi Sun-sin: The Undefeated Admiral His Own King Tried to Destroy
Jun 19, 202622 min
Sen no Rikyū: The Tea Master Who Weaponized Simplicity
Jun 19, 202618 min
Sakamoto Ryoma: The Samurai Who Put Down the Sword and Invented Modern Japan
Jun 19, 202622 min
Bhagat Singh: The Revolutionary Who Turned His Trial Into a Megaphone
Jun 19, 202616 min
Billy the Kid: The Reversed Image of the American Outlaw
Jun 19, 202622 min
Sardar Patel: The Iron Man Who Built India’s Map
Jun 19, 202623 min
Chandragupta Maurya: The Fugitive Who Built India’s First Great Empire
Jun 19, 202622 min
Utagawa Hiroshige: The Fire Warden Who Taught the World How to See Rain
Jun 19, 202620 min
Hong Xiuquan: The Failed Exam Taker Who Built a Heavenly Kingdom
Jun 19, 202619 min
Averroes: The Judge Whose Burned Books Helped Light the Renaissance
Jun 19, 202622 min
Cochise: The Apache Leader Who Refused to Be Captured by History
Jun 19, 202618 min
Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet Who Wrote Nations but Feared Nationalism
Jun 19, 202619 min
Sam Houston: The Raven, the Republic, and the Man Who Wouldn’t Bend
Jun 19, 202619 min
Red Cloud: The Lakota Leader Who Won the War and Lost the Peace
Jun 19, 202620 min
Rani Lakshmibai: The Queen, the Siege, and the Myth of Jhansi
Jun 19, 202621 min
Quanah Parker: The Last Comanche Chief Who Turned Survival Into Strategy
Jun 19, 202621 min
Pontiac: The War Chief Behind the Red Napoleon Myth
Jun 19, 202620 min
Lu Xun: The Writer Who Tried to Wake China From the Iron House
Jun 19, 202619 min
James Bowie: The Knife, the Hustle, and the Myth of the Alamo Hero
Jun 19, 202623 min
Al Capone: The Shadow King Who Couldn’t Control the One Thing That Killed Him
Jun 19, 202623 min
Sequoyah: The Man Who Turned Talking Leaves Into Cherokee Survival
Jun 19, 202617 min
Emperor Taizong of Tang: The Usurper Who Became the Model Emperor
Jun 19, 202619 min
Emperor Wu of Han: The Empire Builder Who Nearly Destroyed His Own House
Jun 19, 202623 min
Butch Cassidy: The Gentleman Bandit Who Refused to Stay Dead
Jun 19, 202621 min
David Crockett: The Real Man Behind the King of the Wild Frontier
Jun 19, 202622 min
Daniel Boone: The Real Man Behind the Coonskin Cap Myth
Jun 19, 202625 min
Qin Shi Huang: The First Emperor Who Unified China and Couldn’t Escape Death
Jun 19, 202622 min
Chief Joseph: The Diplomat Turned Into a Mythic Warrior
Jun 19, 202620 min
Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Sold the Wild West to the World
Jun 19, 202623 min
Black Hawk: The War Leader America Defeated, Then Turned Into a Symbol
Jun 19, 202620 min
Annie Oakley: The Survivor Behind Little Sure Shot
Jun 19, 202619 min