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Ted Kennedy: How Scandal and Tragedy Forged the Most Powerful Senate Machine in American History
Jun 16, 202621 min
Steve Jobs: The Adopted College Dropout Who Hacked Reality and Rebuilt the World
Jun 16, 202622 min
Hubert Humphrey: The Happy Warrior Whose Presidential Ambition Cost Him Everything
Jun 16, 202619 min
James K. Polk: The One-Term President Who Conquered Half a Continent and Kept Every Promise
Jun 16, 202625 min
John Brown: The Abolitionist Whose Prophecy of Blood Came True at Harpers Ferry
Jun 16, 202621 min
Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Contested Legacy of America's First Black President
Jun 16, 202618 min
Emiliano Zapata: The Revolutionary Watermelon Farmer Who Fought for Land and Died for It
Jun 16, 202621 min
Maximilian I: From European Royalty to Executed Emperor of Mexico's Chocolate Empire
Jun 16, 202618 min
George Patton: The Brilliant, Reckless General Who Was Only Built for War
Jun 16, 202621 min
Gerald Ford: The Accidental President Behind the Caricature History Got Wrong
Jun 16, 202620 min
Sugar Ray Robinson: The Pound-for-Pound Greatest Fighter and the Premonition That Came True
Jun 15, 202622 min
Jane Fonda: The Actress the United States Senate Called a Traitor
Jun 15, 202619 min
Anne Frank: The Ambitious Young Author Behind the Secret Annex Diary
Jun 15, 202621 min
The Blind Champion Who Beat Muhammad Ali: The Untold Story of a Fighter Who Could Barely See
Jun 15, 202622 min
Patty Hearst: The Kidnapped Heiress Who Picked Up a Machine Gun and Defended Her Captors
Jun 15, 202621 min
John Wayne: The Draft-Dodging Actor Behind America's Most Patriotic Myth
Jun 15, 202626 min
Harvey Milk: The Radical Reinvention of a Camera Shop Owner Into America's First Openly Gay Elected Official
Jun 15, 202623 min
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Harvard Scholar Who Became a Communist and Died in Exile in Ghana
Jun 15, 202624 min
Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse Whose 2,130-Game Streak Hid a Body That Was Already Dying
Jun 15, 202621 min
Jim Thorpe: Trash Can Shoes, Stolen Gold Medals, and the Greatest Athlete America Ever Produced
Jun 15, 202624 min
Bill Russell: The Eleven-Time Champion Who Demanded an Empty Arena Because Boston Hated Him
Jun 15, 202624 min
Wilt Chamberlain: The Goliath Paradox of the Greatest Individual Athlete Who Could Never Win Enough
Jun 15, 202621 min
James Stewart: The Combat Pilot Who Came Home and Broke Hollywood's Nicest-Guy Mold
Jun 15, 202618 min
Joe DiMaggio: The Yankee Clipper and the Impossible Price of Perfection
Jun 15, 202619 min
Malala Yousafzai: Beyond the Bullet and the Nobel Prize — The Full Story of a Global Icon
Jun 15, 202620 min
Marlon Brando: The Actor Who Revolutionized Performance and Spent His Life Hating It
Jun 15, 202623 min
Martin Scorsese: From Seminary Student to Cinema's Greatest Living Director
Jun 15, 202622 min
Martina Navratilova: The Defector Who Defied Every Limit Tennis, Gender, and Politics Could Impose
Jun 15, 202619 min
Nadia Comaneci: The Perfect Ten, the Dictator's Pawn, and the Midnight Escape to Freedom
Jun 15, 202623 min
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