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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
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