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Nikola Tesla - S14E10
Nov. 28, 2021
09:28
Winston Churchill - S14E09
Nov. 21, 2021
08:16
Katharine Hepburn - S14E08
Nov. 14, 2021
09:06
Jacques Cousteau - S14E07
Nov. 7, 2021
08:24
Spencer Tracy - S14E06
Oct. 17, 2021
08:33
Niki Lauda - S14E05
Oct. 10, 2021
08:59
Lyndon B Johnson - S14E04
Oct. 3, 2021
10:29
Jimmy Stewart - S14E03
Sept. 26, 2021
11:02
Kurt Cobain - S14E02
Sept. 19, 2021
11:00
George Orwell - S14E01
Sept. 12, 2021
11:46
Napoleon Bonaparte - S13E10
April 11, 2021
10:48
Muhammad Ali - S13E09
April 4, 2021
12:04
Elizabeth Taylor - S13E08
March 29, 2021
13:21
Freddie Mercury - S13E07
March 21, 2021
11:26
Thomas Edison - S13E06
March 14, 2021
08:34
Ayrton Senna - S13E05
March 7, 2021
09:41
King Henry VII - S13E04
Feb. 28, 2021
08:55
Sam Cooke - S13E03
Feb. 21, 2021
09:14
Oscar Wilde - S13E02
Feb. 14, 2021
10:59
Joan of Arc - S13E01
Feb. 7, 2021
08:41
Alexander Graham Bell - S12E10
Oct. 15, 2020
09:58
Mary Pickford - S12E09
Oct. 8, 2020
10:44
Jimi Hendrix - S12E08
Oct. 1, 2020
10:08
King Charles I - S12E07
Sept. 24, 2020
Jane Austen - S12E06
Sept. 17, 2020
Vivien Leigh - S12E05
Sept. 10, 2020
11:10
Jules Verne - S12E04
Sept. 3, 2020
11:04
Al Capone - S12E03
Aug. 27, 2020
10:49
Martin Luther King Jr. - S12E02
Aug. 20, 2020
09:46
Ronald Reagan - S12E01
Aug. 13, 2020
10:22
Amy Winehouse - S11E10
July 16, 2020
10:56
Ted Bundy - S11E09
July 9, 2020
12:36
Jane Russell - S11E08
July 2, 2020
08:27
Humphrey Bogart - S11E07
June 25, 2020
10:26
Interview with Dr Moira Dolan
June 21, 2020
39:56
Juan Manuel Fangio - S11E06
June 18, 2020
14:01
Alexander the Great - S11E05
June 11, 2020
09:51
Anne Boleyn - S11E04
June 4, 2020
08:23
Zsa Zsa Gabor - S11E03
May 28, 2020
08:00
James Madison - S11E02
May 21, 2020
09:18
Che Guevara - S11E01
May 14, 2020
08:43
Richard Nixon - S10E10
April 16, 2020
10:16
King George V - S10E09
April 9, 2020
09:02
Charles Dickens - S10E08
April 2, 2020
09:22
Grace Kelly - S10E07
March 26, 2020
06:53
Sir Robert Peel - S10E06
March 19, 2020
08:03
John Wayne - S10E05
March 12, 2020
Charles Darwin - S10E04
March 5, 2020
07:57
Lauren Bacall - S10E03
Feb. 27, 2020
08:52
Sir Edmund Hillary - S10E02
Feb. 25, 2020
Herbert Hoover - S10E01
06:49
J. Robert Oppenheimer - S09E10
Feb. 24, 2020
09:34
Dean Martin - S09E09
09:24
Walt Disney - S09E08
07:55
Gene Roddenberry - S09E07
09:40
Irving Berlin - S09E06
06:46
Diana, Princess of Wales - S09E05
08:08
Frank Sinatra - S09E04
Feb. 23, 2020
08:14
Christopher Columbus - S09E03
08:31
J. R. R. Tolkien - S09E02
Feb. 22, 2020
07:01
John D Rockefeller - S09E01
07:04
Alexander Hamilton - S08E10
Feb. 19, 2020
08:22
Michelangelo - S08E09
07:35
Gustave Eiffel - S08E08
Feb. 18, 2020
Davy Crockett - S08E07
Feb. 16, 2020
08:26
Lana Turner - S08E06
10:12
Neil Armstrong - S08E05
Feb. 12, 2020
Amelia Earhart - S08E04
13:48
Stan Laurel - S08E03
Feb. 11, 2020
09:15
Louis Braille - S08E02
06:48
Ada Lovelace - S08E01
July 4, 2019
07:39
Charles Babbage - S07E10
June 27, 2019
08:56
Beatrix Potter - S07E09
08:30
Bertrand Russell - S07E08
April 25, 2019
07:14
Billie Holiday - S07E07
April 18, 2019
09:48
Jackie Robinson - S07E06
April 11, 2019
13:52
Ginger Rogers - S07E05
April 4, 2019
08:28
Johannes Kepler - S07E04
March 28, 2019
12:11
Elvis Presley - S07E03
March 21, 2019
12:00
Thomas Becket - S07E02
March 14, 2019
08:19
Albert Einstein - S07E01
March 7, 2019
12:34
David Bowie - S06E10
Dec. 20, 2018
09:20
Audrey Hepburn - S06E09
Dec. 13, 2018
11:28
Douglas Adams - S06E08
Dec. 6, 2018
07:52
Thomas Jefferson - S06E07
Nov. 29, 2018
07:27
Lee Marvin - S06E06
Nov. 22, 2018
06:51
Rudyard Kipling - S06E05
Nov. 15, 2018
Rosa Parks - S06E04
Nov. 8, 2018
08:11
Guy Fawkes - S06E03
Nov. 1, 2018
Ulysses S. Grant - S06E02
Oct. 25, 2018
07:44
J. Edgar Hoover - S06E01
Oct. 18, 2018
08:05
Paul Newman - S05E10
Sept. 6, 2018
Charles Lindbergh - S05E09
Aug. 30, 2018
11:53
Mary Shelley - S05E08
Aug. 23, 2018
07:12
Oliver Hardy - S05E07
Aug. 16, 2018
09:31
Clark Gable - S05E06
Aug. 9, 2018
10:37
Judy Garland - S05E05
Aug. 2, 2018
18:01
Bugsy Siegel - S05E04
July 26, 2018
Ava Gardner - S05E03
July 19, 2018
10:06
Charlie Chaplin - S05E02
July 12, 2018
23:26
Steve McQueen - S05E01
July 5, 2018
13:26
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - S04E10
May 3, 2018
09:39
Catherine de Medici - S04E09
April 26, 2018
10:25
Sammy Davis Junior - S04E08
April 19, 2018
10:24
Bruce Lee - S04E07
April 12, 2018
Julius Caesar - S04E06
April 5, 2018
Susan B. Anthony - S04E05
March 29, 2018
09:59
Abraham Lincoln - S04E04
March 22, 2018
Nina Simone - S04E03
March 15, 2018
10:30
John Paul Jones - S04E02
March 8, 2018
07:45
King Henry VIII - S04E01
March 1, 2018
09:11
John Dillinger - S03E04
June 22, 2017
Waylon Jennings - S03E03
June 15, 2017
07:06
Francis Crick - S03E02
June 8, 2017
07:03
Marilyn Monroe - S03E01
June 1, 2017
25:01
Vincent Van Gogh - S02E10
March 30, 2017
Joan Crawford - S02E09
March 23, 2017
15:29
Bobby Jones - S02E08
March 16, 2017
10:34
Yuri Gagarin - S02E07
March 9, 2017
09:19
David Niven - S02E06
March 2, 2017
09:56
George Harrison - S02E05
Feb. 23, 2017
08:29
Queen Mary I of England - S02E04
Feb. 16, 2017
Thomas Paine - S02E03
Feb. 9, 2017
09:29
Marie Curie - S02E02
Nov. 12, 2016
Theodore Roosevelt - S02E01
Sept. 8, 2016
12:41
Isaac Asimov - S01E30
Oct. 22, 2015
Woodrow Wilson - S01E29
Oct. 15, 2015
07:08
Paul Revere - S01E28
March 26, 2015
07:24
Mary Todd Lincoln - S01E27
Dec. 18, 2014
11:38
Jim Morrison - S01E26
Dec. 11, 2014
09:04
Hernando Cortes - S01E25
Dec. 4, 2014
07:05
Joe DiMaggio - S01E24
Nov. 27, 2014
07:49
Boris Karloff - S01E23
Nov. 20, 2014
09:35
Hedy Lamarr - S01E22
Nov. 13, 2014
Marie Antoinette - S01E21
Nov. 6, 2014
Claude Monet - S01E20
Oct. 30, 2014
07:28
Pablo Picasso - S01E19
Oct. 23, 2014
Patsy Cline - S01E18
Oct. 16, 2014
07:19
Carole Lombard - S01E17
Oct. 9, 2014
07:13
Bill Shankly - S01E16
Oct. 2, 2014
Michael Faraday - S01E15
Sept. 25, 2014
07:25
Fay Wray - S01E14
Sept. 18, 2014
Ralph Lauren - S01E13
Sept. 11, 2014
07:18
Eleanor Roosevelt - S01E12
Sept. 4, 2014
Richard Harris - S01E11
Aug. 28, 2014
07:43
Jimmy Carter - S01E10
Aug. 21, 2014
H. G. Wells - S01E09
Aug. 14, 2014
09:21
Roald Dahl - S01E08
Aug. 7, 2014
Alan Ladd - S01E07
July 31, 2014
07:00
Ferdinand Porsche - S01E06
July 21, 2014
07:36
Rocky Marciano - S01E05
July 15, 2014
07:29
H. P. Lovecraft - S01E04
July 14, 2014
Doc Holliday - S01E03
July 13, 2014
Alexander Fleming - S01E02
July 12, 2014
06:58
Louis Armstrong - S01E01
July 11, 2014
07:47
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