Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was one of the most famous screen actors of all time.Known for her charisma and beauty, her private life and turbulent health made headlines throughout her career, and her early death c...
7 Okt 46min
Charlie Chaplin
The first truly global celebrity, Charlie Chaplin was once the most famous man in the world. The king of the silent movie, over the course of 82 films his wistful slapstick saw him light up the silver...
30 Sep 51min
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was one of history’s greatest inventors, a man who gave the world not only electric light but other landmark innovations in sound recording and moving pictures.He accumulated more patent...
23 Sep 55min
Alexander the Great
Though he ruled for just thirteen years, Alexander the Great casts a long shadow, famed as much for his hedonistic lifestyle as his military genius.But how did he become one of the best known military...
16 Sep 44min
Muhammad Ali
From the day he burst onto the scene, Muhammad Ali changed boxing history. But he also influenced the American civil rights movement, the perception of Islam, the view of the war in Vietnam, and the s...
9 Sep 48min
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo is as much a modern icon for her personal flair as she is for her paintings.But how did her style develop, and what did she intend it to communicate? What was so subversive about her work,...
2 Sep 49min
William Shakespeare
No single writer has shaped the way we speak and think more than William Shakespeare.Whether we’re being cruel to be kind, wearing our hearts on our sleeves, or wrestling with the green eye’d monster ...
26 Aug 51min
Pocahontas
Pocahontas is probably the best known Native American in history. But the true story of her life has been eclipsed by a fictionalised version, played out as a romance between an intrepid English capta...
19 Aug 51min
