Biography - Season 11 / Year 1998

Season 11 / Year 1998
Episodes

Mikhail Gorbachev: The Man Who Changed the World

David Copperfield

John Wayne: American Legend

Loretta Young: Hollywood's Heavenly Beauty

Baby Face Nelson

Calvin Klein

Pat Benatar

David Berkowitz

Ernie Kovacs: Please Stand By

Jerry Seinfeld: Master of His Domain

Johnny Cash: The Man in Black

Nicholas & Alexandra

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

William Shatner: Captain's Log

Chrstina Onassis:

Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch

Denzel Washington: The Preacher's Son

Ernest Hemingway - Wrestling With Life

Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius

Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act

Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury

Satan: Prince Of Darkness

Greta Garbo: The Mysterious Lady

Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor

Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius

Connie Francis: America's Sweetheart of Song

Bill Gates: Sultan of Software

The Coors: A Family Brew

Chesty Puller: The Marine's Marine

Oskar Schindler The Man Behind The List

Hedda Hopper Hollywood Gossip Queen

Bill Robinson: Mr. Bojangles

Enrico Caruso: the Voice of the Century

Helen Thomas First Lady of the Press

Lawrence Welk: A Wunnerful Wunnerful Life

Norman Vincent Peale

Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King

Dave Thomas: Made to Order

The Von Trapp Family: Harmony and Discord

Evel Knievel: Hell on Wheels
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