Ranked #1
156 - Augusto Pinochet - The Great Betrayal
156 - Augusto Pinochet - The Great Betrayal
Imagine, for a moment, that you were given the opportunity to become the most powerful person in your country. To get th... Read more
26 Nov 2019
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25mins
Ranked #2
174 - Pat Garrett - The Lawman Who Shot Billy the Kid
174 - Pat Garrett - The Lawman Who Shot Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett once admitted that the thing he feared most was having his life defined by just one moment - the killing of ... Read more
23 Dec 2019
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20mins
Ranked #3
175 - Franz Kafka - Chronicler of Darkness
175 - Franz Kafka - Chronicler of Darkness
One hundred years ago, a reclusive Czech-Jew living anonymously amid Prague’s spires managed to change the way we see th... Read more
24 Dec 2019
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23mins
Ranked #4
128 - Charlie Chaplin - The Tragic Life of the Little Tramp
128 - Charlie Chaplin - The Tragic Life of the Little Tramp
Over a century after he first appeared in movies, Charlie Chaplin’s name still conjures images of a funny little guy in ... Read more
16 Oct 2019
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23mins
Ranked #5
74 - Maximilien Robespierre - The Reign of Terror
74 - Maximilien Robespierre - The Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre promised to usher a fairer, more representative form of government to the French people. What th... Read more
25 Jul 2019
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24mins
Ranked #6
79 - Che Guevara - Doctor, Revolutionary, Murderer
79 - Che Guevara - Doctor, Revolutionary, Murderer
He is the worldwide symbol of rebellion and revolutionary struggle. His silhouette is familiar to billions, representing... Read more
5 Aug 2019
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20mins
Ranked #7
22 - George Patton - America's Most Famous General
22 - George Patton - America's Most Famous General
The leading generals of World War Two carried a huge weight on their shoulders. Their decisions could mean the differenc... Read more
9 May 2019
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22mins
Ranked #8
72 - Christopher Columbus - Bad Explorer, Great Conman
72 - Christopher Columbus - Bad Explorer, Great Conman
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 to May 20, 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atl... Read more
23 Jul 2019
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22mins
Ranked #9
205 - The Black Death
205 - The Black Death
The sun was setting on the Norwegian port of Bergen. It was early July, 1349, and off in the distance, a lone ship was c... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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23mins
Ranked #10
80 - Simon Bolivar - Today a Hero. Yesterday a Tyrant.
80 - Simon Bolivar - Today a Hero. Yesterday a Tyrant.
His nickname is still known across the globe. Simon Bolivar, El Libertador (The Liberator), the man who almost single-h... Read more
6 Aug 2019
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23mins
Ranked #11
71 - Niccolo Machiavelli - It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both
71 - Niccolo Machiavelli - It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both
Italian diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli lived over five centuries ago but his influence among unscrupulous politicians reac... Read more
22 Jul 2019
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17mins
Ranked #12
19 - The Madness of Howard Hughes
19 - The Madness of Howard Hughes
He was the richest man in America, the world at his fingertips, and yet he was a prisoner to his own dark fears. His ac... Read more
6 May 2019
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22mins
Ranked #13
10 – Vladimir Lenin – The Founder of the Soviet Union
10 – Vladimir Lenin – The Founder of the Soviet Union
He is the only person whose baby picture was flown into space, and whose body has been preserved for decades after his d... Read more
23 Jan 2019
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33mins
Ranked #14
40 - Winston Churchill - In the Darkest Hour
40 - Winston Churchill - In the Darkest Hour
We imagine Winston Churchill with his signature cane, drinking scotch whiskey, and puffing on a Cuban cigar. His mouth i... Read more
4 Jun 2019
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19mins
Ranked #15
73 - Adolf Eichmann - The Architect of the Holocaust
73 - Adolf Eichmann - The Architect of the Holocaust
Adolf Eichmann was a thin little man with bow legs and a hook nose. In the civilian world he had been viewed as of no ac... Read more
24 Jul 2019
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19mins
Ranked #16
235 - Nero - Romes Antichrist
235 - Nero - Romes Antichrist
Imagine, for a moment, that you could travel backwards through time and give your sixteen year old self the powers of a ... Read more
24 Mar 2020
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23mins
Ranked #17
238 - Codename Garbo - The Greatest Deception of World War II
238 - Codename Garbo - The Greatest Deception of World War II
The story we bring to you today shows exactly that. This is the story of three individuals who through imagination, cunn... Read more
27 Mar 2020
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24mins
Ranked #18
164 - Edgar Allan Poe - Beyond the Horror
164 - Edgar Allan Poe - Beyond the Horror
Many of us have grown reading his tales on self-destruction, revenge and violence. Tales of premature burials, of ghastl... Read more
6 Dec 2019
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22mins
Ranked #19
221 - Spartacus - The Slave Who Made Rome Tremble
221 - Spartacus - The Slave Who Made Rome Tremble
According to legend, Spartacus’s wife walked in on her sleeping husband one night to find that a snake had wrapped itsel... Read more
3 Mar 2020
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20mins
Ranked #20
90 - Anastasia Romanov - Finding The Lost Princess
90 - Anastasia Romanov - Finding The Lost Princess
During the Bolshevik revolution, the Romanov dynasty was killed after over a hundred-year reign in Russia. The bodies of... Read more
23 Aug 2019
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16mins