7252: Francois Truffaut — The Delinquent Orphan Who Invented Modern Cinema | pplpod
Francois Truffaut was a juvenile delinquent, a school dropout, and a military deserter before he became the most important film critic in France. Then he picked up a camera and made The 400 Blows, a f...
17 Jun 18min
7251: Ferdinand II of Aragon — The King Who Invented the Global Superpower | pplpod
Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, completed the Reconquista, expelled the Jews and Muslims from Spain, and financed Columbus. In doing so he created the first truly global empire and...
17 Jun 17min
7250: Robert De Niro — How Bobby Milk from Little Italy Became Hollywood's Greatest Actor | pplpod
Robert De Niro grew up in Little Italy so pale and skinny that neighborhood kids called him Bobby Milk. He transformed himself into Travis Bickle, Jake LaMotta, and Vito Corleone through a method acti...
17 Jun 19min
7249: Henri Cartier-Bresson — The Eye That Hunted the Decisive Moment | pplpod
Henri Cartier-Bresson coined the concept of "the decisive moment" and spent fifty years proving it existed. He photographed Gandhi hours before his assassination, documented the fall of the Kuomintang...
17 Jun 19min
7248: Gustavus Adolphus — The Lion of the North Who Changed Warfare Forever | pplpod
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden transformed a minor Baltic kingdom into a European superpower and revolutionized military tactics in the process. He combined infantry, cavalry, and mobile artillery in way...
17 Jun 21min
7247: Frank Lloyd Wright — Architectural Masterpieces and Personal Mayhem | pplpod
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and over a thousand other structures that redefined American architecture. He also abandoned his family, saw his mistress and her child...
17 Jun 21min
7246: Charles II — From Fugitive Prince to England's Ruthless Merry Monarch | pplpod
Charles II hid in an oak tree while Cromwell's soldiers hunted him, fled to France disguised as a servant, and spent nine years in impoverished exile. When he returned to claim the English throne, the...
17 Jun 23min
7245: Buzz Aldrin — The Long, Lonely Descent After Walking on the Moon | pplpod
Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon and came home to a depression so severe he could barely function. The second man on the lunar surface spent years battling alcoholism and a sense that nothing on Earth c...
17 Jun 24min
