Biography

Season 7

26 episodes · Mar 23, 1998

1998

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  • S7E1

    David Berkowitz: Son of Sam

    Mar 23, 199860m

    For over a year, he held a city hostage to fear. When he was finally caught, the nation was shocked to discover that the "face of terror" was a cherubic postal worker who smiled sweetly for the camera. David Berkowitz claimed the lives of six people in a killing spree that resulted in the largest manhunt in the history of New York. Once apprehended, he confessed to all the crimes and asked the judge to put him away forever so he would not kill again. In this comprehensive portrait, reporters and detectives who worked on the case, the parents of victims, a prosecutor and a former FBI profiler relive the case that galvanized a nation. Psychologists explore the many frustrations and disappointments that led Berkowitz to kill, and in a gripping interview, Berkowitz himself talks about his crimes and jailhouse transformation into the "Son of Hope." Today, he ministers to other prisoners and born-again Christians all over the world in hopes of restoring some meaning to his shattered life. From the dark streets of a shaken city to the jailhouse reformation, BIOGRAPHY examines the "Son of Sam."

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  • S7E2

    Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor

    Mar 30, 199860m

    “For 25 years Mao Zedong ruled one quarter of the world’s population. This is the extraordinary story of a farmer’s son who became a God in his life time but in private never shook off his peasant roots; a man who presided over one of the most radical experiments in social reform ever seen in human history but who will be remembered as one of the bloodiest dictators of the twentieth century. This program–told through the accounts of those who have met and studied him, loved and loathed him–includes archive film and pictures going back to the very earliest days of Mao’s life, as well as unique film of China at the turn of the century and during key episodes in Mao’s communist revolution. It includes harrowing and eye-witness accounts of such momentous events as the cultural revolution, the Great Leap Forward and the most severe man-made famine ever recorded.”

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  • S7E3

    Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air

    Apr 6, 199860m
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  • S7E4

    Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act

    Apr 13, 199860m
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  • S7E5

    Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl

    Apr 20, 199860m
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  • S7E6

    Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury

    Apr 27, 199860m
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  • S7E7

    Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King

    May 4, 199860m
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  • S7E8

    Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-in-Chief

    May 11, 199860m
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  • S7E9

    Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling With Life

    May 18, 199860m
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  • S7E10

    Evel Knievel: Hell on Wheels

    May 25, 199860m
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  • S7E11

    Howard Carter: Triumph and Treasure

    Jun 1, 199860m
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  • S7E12

    Jackie Kennedy Onassis: In a Class of Her Own

    Jun 8, 199860m
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  • S7E13

    Jim Jones: Journey into Madness

    Jun 15, 199860m
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  • S7E14

    John Wayne: American Legend

    Jun 22, 199860m
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  • S7E15

    P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth

    Jun 29, 199860m
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  • S7E16

    Ray Kroc: Fast Food McMillionaire

    Jul 6, 199860m
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  • S7E17

    Satan: Prince of Darkness

    Jul 13, 199860m

    Examining the story of Satan's fall from grace and his efforts against the human race.

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  • S7E18

    Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius

    Jul 20, 199860m
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  • S7E19

    Charles Lindbergh: Against the Wind

    Jan 7, 199960m
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  • S7E20

    Fred Gwynne: More than a Munster

    Jan 18, 199960m
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  • S7E21

    John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise

    Jan 25, 199960m
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  • S7E22

    Nicolae Ceausescu: The Unrepentant Tyrant

    Feb 1, 199960m
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  • S7E23

    The Tiffanys: Mark of Excellence

    Feb 8, 199960m
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  • S7E44

    Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody

    Sep 4, 1995
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  • S7E63

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Oct 20, 199546m

    Their incredible exploits earned them a place in American legend. Their true fate remains one of the great mysteries of the Old west.

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  • S7E67

    Nostradamus: Prophet of Doom

    Nov 6, 199547m

    Explore the incredible life of Nostradamus, the enigmatic man known as the Prophet of Doom.

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