Biography Season 9 Episodes

Episode 1

Eliot Ness: Untouchable

Wed, Jan 22, 199743 mins

Episode 2

Julia Child: An Appetite for Life

Tue, Oct 14, 1997

Episode 3

Andrew Cunanan

Wed, Sep 17, 1997

Episode 4

Timothy McVeigh: Soldier of Terror

Tue, Jul 8, 1997

Episode 5

Hayley Mills: Seeing Double

Tue, Jun 22, 199950 mins

The young actress from England won an Academy Award at the age of 14 for her role in Pollyanna. But it was her real-life role that brought her the most publicity. Her fans, who adored the ingénue she played on-screen, were outraged when she fell in love and married a man who was decades older. Archival film clips chronicle her movie roles, and her marriage to director Roy Boulting. Interviews with family, friends, and colleagues reveal the private side of the actress with the Polyanne smile.

Episode 7

Jane Russell: Body and Soul

Mon, Oct 20, 1997

Episode 8

Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow

Sun, Mar 23, 199760 mins

The life of the most talented singer/actress Judy Garland who been performing since the age of three with her two sister and hit stardom on films, but led tragedy on her life.

Episode 9

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Mon, Mar 10, 199746 mins

Examine the sensational legend and amazing truth of the monk whose pervasive influence over the Russian royal family helped bring about the October Revolution.

Episode 10

Noah

Episode 11

Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison

Mon, Jun 2, 199745 mins

She has been called the most depraved woman in history, yet the charges of murder and incest against her have never been proven.

Episode 12

Larry Flynt: Fighting Dirty

Wed, Jan 15, 1997

Larry Flynt rises from poverty to cause controversy with his erotic magazine, Hustler and outspoken views.

Episode 13

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer

Mon, Apr 14, 199750 mins

Episode 14

Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror

Thu, Sep 11, 1997

Episode 15

The Gambinos: The First Family of Crime

Sun, Jan 5, 199788 mins

Episode 17

Masters & Johnson: The Science of Sex

Thu, Jan 16, 1997

Episode 18

Woodrow Wilson: Reluctant Warrior

Mon, Jan 20, 1997

Episode 19

G. Gordon Liddy: Warrior with a Cause

Thu, Feb 13, 1997

Episode 20

Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street

Wed, Mar 5, 1997

Fascinating story of Charles Dow and Edward Jones, whose dissimilar geniuses produced the indispensable Dow Jones stock index. Financial gurus Louis Rukeyser, Lou Dobbs, and others discuss the lives of Dow and Jones, and how their index changed the world.

Episode 22

Sonja Henie: Fire on Ice

Tue, Mar 11, 199760 mins

Episode 24

Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style

Mon, Mar 17, 199750 mins

Still considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, Sophia Loren, an international star for many years. Born into poverty in Italy, Loren went from modeling to acting, and with the help of director Carlo Ponti, onto Hollywood and international fame. She was awarded a special Academy Award in 1991 for lifetime achievement.

Episode 25

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

Tue, Mar 18, 199745 mins

Episode 27

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

Fri, Mar 21, 199745 mins

The story of how Audrey Hepburn survived World War II, became an award winning actress, and gave back to the world as a humanitarian.

Episode 28

Elizabeth I: Virgin Queen

Thu, Mar 27, 199760 mins

Episode 29

Nancy Reagan: President's Leading Lady

Mon, Mar 31, 1997

Episode 30

Peter Graves: Mission Accomplished

Fri, Apr 4, 1997

Episode 31

Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Master

Tue, Apr 8, 1997

Episode 32

Shirley Temple: Hollywood's Little Princess

Fri, Apr 18, 199760 mins

The life of Shirley Temple, the iconic child star of the 1930s.

Episode 34

Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero

Mon, May 5, 199744 mins

Episode 35

Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post

Wed, May 7, 1997

Episode 36

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

Mon, May 12, 199758 mins

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Zeigfield Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play -- and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck. Her first marriage was to vaudeville headliner, Frank Fay. When Hollywood beckoned, it was Fay who convinced Frank Capra to give Barbara her first real break. But as Stanwyck's career took off, Fay's sank. Fay's jealousy and drinking led to divorce. Barbara's greatest love was actor Robert Taylor, her second husband. But even that didn't last and she spent the greater part of her life alone. However, there was always the one love she could rely on: her work -- in over 80 feature films and a rich career in television. Included are clips from: Ladies of Leisure , Annie Oakley, Golden Boy, The Lady Eve, Meet John Doe, Double Indemnity, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers , Sorry, Wrong Number , Clash By Night and The Thorn Birds. Interviewed are: actors Robert Wagner, Robert Stack, Roddy McDowall, Ricardo Montalban and Charlton Heston, producer Aaron Spelling, director Edward Dymtryk, dress designer Nolan Miller, biographers Ella Smith and Bob Thomas.

Episode 37

Rommel: The Last Knight

Wed, Jan 1, 199745 mins

Trace the remarkable story--on and off the battlefield--of the noble warrior who was honored and respected by his opponents, and betrayed by his commander.

Episode 41

George Marshall: Soldier and Statesman

Mon, Jun 16, 199745 mins

The epic story of the monumental soldier and statesman who, perhaps more than anybody else shaped the world we live in today.

Episode 42

Al Gore: A Burning Ambition

Wed, Jun 25, 1997

Episode 43

Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Speaking of Sex

Mon, Jun 30, 1997

Episode 45

Carl Sagan: A Cosmic Celebrity

Fri, Jul 11, 199760 mins

Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn in November 9, 1934. Son of Russians immigrants, he grew up at the same time what his love by the science from what his fathers took him to the Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention) of Queens in 1939, when Carl was a child. Turned in a scientist important after of to send the first satellite to Venus and demonstrate what his Venus's model was correct (he just was 27 years old), Carl was professor in some universities and includes he appeared in TV when the Viking probe landing at Mars. He designed no just the Viking and Viking II spacial probes (that landing at Mars in July 29, 1976 and September 3, 1976), too designed the famous Voyager and Voyager II spacial probes which was launched in August 20, 1977 and September 5, 1977 (being Voyager II launched in first place. The two spacial probes were sent to the outer space with a gold disc inside what contained information about Earth), but his greatest exit was the TV series most seen in the history: Cosmos, all a legacy of pure science but accessible for everybody what was a big hit around the world. Altough more later he was jailed when he pronounced against the "Star Wars" (the Ronald Reagan's project to use satellites and missiles in a war in space), Carl continued being one of the best scientists, winning the Pulizter by his book 'Dragons of Eden'. Finally he died in December 20, 1996 of cancer, just after of the opening of this biographic documentary. He was 62. Astronomer, scientist, spacial voyager, writer, citizen of the universe and much more, Carl Sagan, no doubt, was a cosmic celebrity.

Episode 46

Sylvester Stallone

Wed, Mar 2, 2005120 mins

The second biography already been produced by A&E, which produced a 60 minute biography of Stallone in 2001 has a whole new biography out. With new interviews, never before seen footage and pictures, interviews by Stallone himself detailing his life. Interviews by other actors and friends and family. This 120 minute biography details Stallone the child to Stallone the movie star to finally Stallone the family man, editor and chief of "Sly Magazine" founder and chairmen of Instone, Stallone's vitamin company and his new reality TV series "The Contender" This biography is packed with 2 hours of interviews and retrospectives.

Episode 47

Tom Hanks: The Luckiest Man in the World

Sun, Feb 1, 2026

Episode 48

Malcolm Forbes: High Flying Millionaire

Mon, Aug 11, 1997

Episode 49

Noah and the Ark: Voyage to a New Beginning

Sat, Feb 1, 1997

Episode 51

Oscar Levant: The Brilliant Shadow

Mon, Aug 25, 1997

Episode 52

Flash Gordon: Journey to Greatness

Thu, Aug 28, 199747 mins

From comic book adventures to big screen-stardom, trace the meteoric and often hilarious history of Flash Gordon, intergalactic space hero!

Episode 53

Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero

Mon, Sep 1, 1997

Episode 55

Phil Silvers: Top Banana

Wed, Sep 3, 1997

Episode 56

George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier

Sun, Sep 7, 1997

From his Civil War triumphs to the fateful battle that sealed his place in history, this is the tumultuous tale of one of America's truly mythic figures.

Episode 57

Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society

Mon, Sep 8, 1997

He was considered, even among gangsters, "totally evil." When his father abandoned the family, he quit school and began a life of crime to help his mother. He changed his name to Dutch Schultz from Arthur Flegenheimer while serving his first prison sentence. Here is the story of one of the nation's most ruthless and brutal criminals. He ended one argument by sticking his .45 automatic pistol into the mouth of a friend and pulling the trigger. He combined such merciless acts with a keen instinct for business to become the most feared and successful gangster of the Prohibition era. He lived the gangster version of the American dream--fast bucks, fast cars and fast women. Lucky Luciano is said to have arranged one of gangland's most infamous massacres, one that killed Schultz and his men. His death cleared the way for Luciano and other organized criminals to take over Shultz's various operations. Schultz goes down in crime history as the last truly independent Jewish gangster.

Episode 59

Frank Serpico: Honor Bound

Mon, Sep 22, 1997

Episode 60

Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob

Wed, Sep 24, 1997

Episode 61

Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness

Mon, Sep 29, 1997

He resorted to torture, exile and imprisonment to repress those who stood against him. But the ruler known as "The Terrrible" also established sweeping reforms that helped bring his nation out of the Dark Ages.

Episode 62

Diana: The True Story

Sun, Apr 12, 199849 mins

Episode 65

Augustus: First of the Emperors

Mon, Oct 6, 199760 mins

Episode 66

Nero: The Power and the Madness

Thu, Mar 5, 1998

Episode 67

Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age

Wed, Oct 8, 1997

Episode 68

Constantine: The Christian Emperor

Thu, Oct 9, 1997

Episode 69

Justinian: The Last of the Romans

Fri, Oct 10, 1997

Episode 70

James Earl Ray: The Man and the Mystery

Thu, Oct 16, 1997

Episode 72

Mia Farrow: A Life of Drama

Fri, Oct 17, 199760 mins

Episode 73

Gloria Vanderbilt: An Heir of Style

Mon, Oct 27, 1997

Episode 75

Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America

Wed, Nov 12, 1997

Episode 76

Hap Arnold: The Sky Warrior

Wed, Nov 12, 1997

Episode 77

Anastasia: Her True Story

Mon, Nov 24, 199744 mins

When the Communists took over Russia in 1917, the royal family was executed the year after, 1918. But in later years, many said that the youngest princess escaped. The program looks at recent evidence which clears up many questions surrounding the fate of the young woman, as well as the identity of the Anastasia claimer in New York City in 1928. Was she the genuine princess or a fake?

Episode 78

R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince

Thu, Nov 27, 1997

The story of R.H. Macy and how he founded a New York based shopping empire.

Episode 79

Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius

Fri, Nov 28, 199745 mins

Biographers, artists and excerpts from Van Gogh's letters and journals help tell the remarkable tale of a genius whose brilliance went unrecognized in his lifetime.

Episode 80

J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire

Mon, Dec 1, 1997

Episode 81

Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire

Tue, Dec 2, 1997

Sam Walton becomes one of the richest people in America after he founds the Wal-Mart chain of stores.

Episode 82

The Woolworths: Five and Dime Fortune and Failure

Wed, Dec 3, 1997

Episode 83

The Marshall Fields: Chicago Tradition

Thu, Dec 4, 1997

Episode 84

Neiman Marcus: The Last of the Merchant Kings

Fri, Dec 5, 1997

Episode 85

Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic

Tue, Dec 9, 199744 mins

Edgar Cayce has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life, Cayce gave psychic "readings" to thousands of seekers while in an unconscious state, diagnosing illnesses and revealing lives lived in the past and prophecies yet to come. But who, exactly, was Edgar Cayce? Cayce was born on a farm in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1877, and his psychic abilities began to appear as early as his childhood. He was able to see and talk to his late grandfather's spirit, and often played with "imaginary friends" whom he said were spirits on the other side. He also displayed an uncanny ability to memorize the pages of a book simply by sleeping on it. These gifts labeled the young Cayce as strange, but all Cayce really wanted was to help others, especially children.

Episode 86

Stanley & Livingstone

Tue, Dec 9, 1997

Documentary on controversial 19th century African explorers, Dr. David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley.

Episode 87

Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road

Wed, Dec 10, 1997

Episode 88

Cinque: Freedom Fighter

Tue, Dec 16, 1997

Episode 89

Truman Capote: The Tiny Terror

Wed, Dec 17, 1997

Episode 90

Joan Collins: A Personal Dynasty

Thu, Dec 18, 1997

Episode 91

Molly Brown: An American Legend

Fri, Dec 19, 1997

Episode 92

Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life

Mon, Dec 22, 1997

A look at the life and times of one of America's greatest screen stars Jimmy Stewart.

Episode 93

Dalai Lama: The Soul of Tibet

Fri, Dec 26, 199760 mins

Episode 98

Joseph Kennedy Sr.: Father of an American Dynasty

Tue, Dec 30, 1997

Episode 99

Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All

Wed, Jan 1, 1997