"Biography" (1987)

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#	Episode	User Rating	User Votes
-	The Redgraves	9.7	10
-	Bill Clinton: Hope, Charisma & Controversy	9.3	11
-	The Fondas: Hollywood's First Family	9.3	8
-	Jane Fonda: Taking Shape	9.3	8
-	Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis: In a Class of Her Own	9.1	10
-	Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Master	9.1	9
-	Bette Davis: If Looks Could Kill	9.1	17
-	Mary Magdalene: The Hidden Apostle	9.1	9
-	Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury	9.1	8
-	RFK: His Many Sides	9.0	8
-	Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice	9.0	13
-	Michelangelo: Artist and Man	9.0	7
-	Princess Diana	8.8	7
-	Teddy: A Kennedy Portrait	8.8	9
-	Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	8.8	6
-	John F. Kennedy: A Personal Story	8.8	13
-	Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace	8.8	9
-	Dalai Lama: The Soul of Tibet	8.7	14
-	Pablo Picasso: A Primitive Soul	8.6	6
-	Liza Minnelli	8.5	8
-	Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess	8.5	18
-	Bob Dylan: The American Troubadour	8.5	7
-	Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow	8.5	16
-	Rock Hudson: Acting the Part	8.5	18
-	Eleanor Roosevelt: A Restless Spirit	8.5	6
-	The Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh & Gauguin	8.4	8
-	Mozart	8.4	12
-	Shirley MacLaine: This Time Around	8.4	11
-	Richard Burton: Taylor Made	8.4	11
-	Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius	8.4	6
-	Barbara Eden: Out of the Bottle	8.4	9
-	Greg Louganis: The Biggest Challenge	8.3	7
-	Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius	8.3	6
-	Eric Clapton: Just the Messenger	8.3	9
-	Marlene: Inventing Dietrich	8.3	28
-	Susan B. Anthony	8.3	7
-	Martha Stewart: It's a Good Thing	8.2	6
-	William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama	8.2	9
-	Alice Faye: The Star Next Door	8.2	14
-	Robert Wagner: Hollywood's Prince Charming	8.2	7
-	Ingrid Bergman: A Passionate Life	8.2	13
-	Joseph Kennedy Sr.: Father of an American Dynasty	8.1	11
-	Blake Edwards: Calling the Shots	8.1	6
-	Sharon Stone: Fearless	8.1	16
-	Frederick Douglass	8.0	7
-	Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union	8.0	7
-	Sean Penn	8.0	6
-	Raymond Burr: The Case of the TV Legend	8.0	8
-	Dustin Hoffman: First in His Class	8.0	8
-	Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America	8.0	7
-	Mikhail Baryshnikov	8.0	7
-	Buddy Ebsen	8.0	5
-	Confucius: Words of Wisdom	8.0	5
-	Frida Kahlo	8.0	6
-	John F. Kennedy Jr.: Child of a Dream	8.0	10
-	FDR: The War Years	8.0	7
-	Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms	8.0	10
-	Humphrey Bogart	8.0	10
-	Robert Redford: Hollywood Outlaw	7.9	24
-	George Washington: Founding Father	7.9	8
-	Geronimo	7.9	7
-	Elizabeth Taylor: Facets	7.9	18
-	Charles Schulz: A Charlie Brown Life	7.9	5
-	James Brolin: Rock Solid	7.9	8
-	Brigitte Bardot	7.9	6
-	Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post	7.9	7
-	Angie Dickinson: Tinseltown's Classiest Broad	7.9	18
-	Queen Noor: Between Two Realms	7.9	7
-	Brigitte Bardot: Animal Attraction	7.8	9
-	Oscar Wilde: Wits End	7.8	7
-	Christine Jorgensen	7.8	5
-	Susan Sarandon: Rebel with a Cause	7.8	6
-	Dr. Ruth Westheimer	7.8	5
-	Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All	7.8	6
-	The Complete Churchill	7.8	5
-	Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch	7.7	7
-	Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady	7.7	10
-	Faye Dunaway: Master Class	7.7	7
-	Jodie Foster	7.7	14
-	Masters & Johnson: The Science of Sex	7.7	6
-	Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait	7.7	34
-	Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom	7.7	7
-	Sitting Bull: Chief of the Lakota Nation	7.7	7
-	Henry VIII	7.7	7
-	Van Gogh and Gauguin	7.7	6
-	Cary Grant: Hollywood's Leading Man	7.7	6
-	Jayne Mansfield: Blonde Ambition	7.7	22
-	Natalie Wood: Child of Hollywood	7.6	15
-	Sir Alec Guinness: A Class Act	7.6	6
-	Georgia O'Keeffe	7.6	9
-	Carl Sagan: A Cosmic Celebrity	7.6	10
-	Hamlet	7.6	5
-	Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody	7.6	5
-	Peter O'Toole: Acting Out Loud	7.6	6
-	Robert Downey Jr.	7.6	7
-	Art Buchwald: The Wit of Washington	7.6	7
-	Gilda Radner: In Her Own Words	7.6	7
-	Gracie Allen: The Better Half	7.6	8
-	Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero	7.6	23
-	Graham Nash	7.6	6
-	F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer	7.6	14
-	Dorothy Dandridge: Little Girl Lost	7.6	6
-	Greta Garbo: The Mysterious Lady	7.6	18
-	Santa Claus	7.5	15
-	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince	7.5	13
-	James Garner: Hollywood Maverick	7.5	15
-	Liberace: Mr. Showmanship	7.5	11
-	Prime Ministers: Five of a Kind	7.5	5
-	Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain	7.5	40
-	Dr. Joyce Brothers	7.5	5
-	Nelson Mandela: Journey to Freedom	7.5	6
-	Peter Fonda	7.5	16
-	Johnny Depp: Under His Skin	7.5	25
-	Bob Marley: Catch a Fire	7.5	5
-	Paul Newman: Hollywood's Cool Hand	7.5	7
-	Bonnie & Clyde	7.5	7
-	Led Zeppelin: A Rare Alchemy	7.4	10
-	Paul Newman: Hollywood's Charming Rebel	7.4	13
-	Carol Burnett: Just to Have a Laugh	7.4	5
-	Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream	7.4	9
-	The Von Trapp Family: Harmony and Discord	7.4	9
-	Saturday Night Live	7.4	7
-	Lesley Ann Warren: A Cinderella Story	7.4	7
-	Raquel Welch: Beyond the Fantasy	7.4	6
-	Tchaikovsky	7.4	6
-	Leonard Nimoy: Spock and Beyond	7.4	7
-	Anthony Hopkins	7.4	23
-	Catherine the Great	7.4	5
-	Mayflower Madam: The Sidney Biddle Barrows Story	7.4	6
-	Malcolm X: A Search for Identity	7.4	13
-	James Joyce	7.3	7
-	Patrick Stewart	7.3	7
-	Tony Curtis: Tony of the Movies	7.3	9
-	The Bronte Sisters	7.3	7
-	Gene Roddenberry: Star Trek and Beyond	7.3	7
-	Jessica Lange: On Her Own Terms	7.3	9
-	Larry Flynt: Fighting Dirty	7.3	6
-	Bea Arthur	7.3	5
-	Pierre Trudeau	7.3	6
-	Anne Oakley: Crack Shot in Petticoats	7.3	6
-	Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild	7.2	13
-	Diego Rivera	7.2	5
-	Betty Grable: Behind the Pin-up	7.2	10
-	Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster	7.2	9
-	Richard Harris	7.2	6
21.2	Jon Stewart	7.2	6
-	Patty Duke	7.2	8
-	Clint Eastwood: Gut Instinct	7.2	7
-	Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World	7.2	8
-	Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior	7.2	8
-	Roman Polanski: Reflections of Darkness	7.2	9
-	Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence	7.2	20
-	George Harrison	7.2	6
-	Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius	7.2	6
-	Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World	7.2	6
-	Vladimir Putin	7.2	6
-	Whoopi Goldberg	7.2	6
-	Nerhu-Gandhi Dynasty	7.2	6
-	Sir Isaac Newton: The Gravity of Genius	7.2	9
-	Truman Capote: The Tiny Terror	7.1	6
-	Ida Lupino: Through the Lens	7.1	7
-	Satan: Prince of Darkness	7.1	12
-	Jane Russell: Body and Soul	7.1	6
-	Bette Midler	7.1	18
-	Jimi Hendrix: The Man They Made God	7.1	9
-	Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air	7.1	6
-	Sitting in Judgment	7.1	6
-	The Munsters: America's First Family of Fright	7.1	11
-	John Steinbeck: An American Author	7.1	5
-	Abbie Hoffman	7.1	6
-	Maria Callas	7.1	5
-	Siegfried and Roy	7.1	6
-	The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty	7.1	7
-	Frances Farmer: Paradise Lost	7.1	6
-	Federico Fellini	7.0	6
-	Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune	7.0	21
-	Kirk Douglas: A Lust for Life	7.0	7
-	John Waters	7.0	22
-	Diahann Carroll: No Strings	7.0	5
-	Jane Austen	7.0	5
-	Elizabeth Montgomery: A Touch of Magic	7.0	5
-	Nostradamus: Prophet of Doom	7.0	13
-	Cybill Shepherd	7.0	10
-	Richard Gere	7.0	39
-	Anna Nicole Smith	7.0	6
-	Dolly Parton	6.9	10
-	Jean Simmons: Picture Perfect	6.9	7
-	Marquis de Sade: The Depraved Aristocrat	6.9	7
-	Jimmy Hoffa: The Man Behind the Mystery	6.9	9
-	Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star	6.9	14
-	Doris Day: It's Magic	6.9	10
-	Anastasia: Her True Story	6.9	13
-	Ozzy Osbourne	6.9	6
-	Sylvia Plath	6.9	6
-	Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace	6.9	7
-	Tony Randall	6.9	10
-	Alec Baldwin	6.9	9
-	James Baldwin: Witness	6.9	9
-	Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth	6.8	5
-	Fidel Castro: El Comandante	6.8	6
-	Claus von Bülow: A Reasonable Doubt	6.8	5
-	Anthony Quinn: A Lust for Life	6.8	12
-	Melanie Griffith	6.8	13
-	William Holden: An Untamed Spirit	6.8	8
-	Mia Farrow: A Life of Drama	6.8	6
-	Bill Gates: Sultan of Software	6.8	11
-	Pat Benatar	6.8	9
-	Don Knotts: Nervous Laughter	6.7	5
-	Anna and the King: The Real Story of Anna Leonowens	6.7	15
-	Pocahontas: Her True Story	6.7	12
-	Lana Turner: Hollywood's Screen Siren	6.7	21
-	Thomas Edison	6.7	7
-	Jack Benny: Now Cut That Out!	6.7	5
-	Rex Harrison: The Man Who Would Be King	6.7	19
-	Clara Bow: Hollywood's Silent Sexpot	6.7	18
-	Janet Leigh	6.7	6
-	Grace Kelly: Hollywood Princess	6.7	6
-	Gypsy Rose Lee: Naked Ambition	6.7	10
-	Gerald R. Ford: Healing the Presidency	6.7	6
-	Steve Martin	6.7	14
-	Ann-Margret: Sugar & Spice	6.7	12
-	King George III: Mad or Maligned?	6.7	9
-	Peter the Great: The Tyrant Reformer	6.7	6
-	Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act	6.7	20
-	King Arthur: His Life and Legends	6.6	7
-	Diane Keaton: On Her Own	6.6	20
-	Hugh Hefner: American Playboy	6.6	5
-	The Rockefellers	6.6	7
-	Genghis Khan: Terror and Conquest	6.6	7
-	Julia Child	6.6	6
-	Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star	6.6	7
-	Betty White: Hollywood's Golden Girl	6.6	6
-	Yvonne DeCarlo: Gilded Lily	6.6	7
-	Kevin Bacon	6.6	6
-	Russell Crowe	6.6	8
-	Eclipsed by Death: The Life of River Phoenix	6.6	48
-	Bruce Willis	6.6	80
-	Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century	6.6	15
-	The Life and Death of Owen Hart	6.6	79
-	Lyndon Johnson: Triumph and Tragedy	6.5	8
-	Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life	6.5	6
-	Tim Robbins: Playing from the Heart	6.5	8
-	Jonathan Harris: Never Fear, Smith Is Here	6.5	9
-	Steve McQueen: Life in the Fast Lane	6.5	6
-	Sunset Strip: Paradise Lost	6.5	5
-	Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel	6.5	16
-	Susan Hayward: The Brooklyn Bombshell	6.5	7
-	Loretta Young: Hollywood's Heavenly Beauty	6.5	5
-	George Carlin: More Than 7 Words	6.5	6
-	Ariel Sharon	6.4	7
-	Albert Einstein	6.4	6
-	Sophia Loren: Actress Italian Style	6.4	48
-	Ann Miller: I'm Still Here	6.4	7
-	Richard Nixon: Man and President	6.4	10
-	Myrna Loy: A Class by Herself	6.4	8
-	Houdini: The Great Escape	6.4	9
-	Hayley Mills: Seeing Double	6.3	18
-	Shirley Temple: Hollywood's Little Princess	6.3	6
-	Brad Pitt	6.3	79
-	Carroll O'Connor: All in a Lifetime	6.2	12
-	Shirley Jones: Hollywood's Musical Mom	6.2	9
-	Lon Chaney Jr.: Son of a Thousand Faces	6.2	8
-	Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker	6.2	8
-	Great Ziegfeld	6.2	9
-	Tyrone Power: The Last Idol	6.2	6
-	Andre the Giant	6.2	111
-	Shelley Winters: Full Disclosure	6.1	11
-	Jerry Orbach	6.1	5
-	Dick Van Dyke: Put on a Happy Face	6.1	5
-	Sylvester Stallone	6.1	47
-	Al Pacino: Inside Out	6.1	5
-	William Shatner	6.1	6
-	Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell	6.1	6
-	Lance Armstrong: Racing for His Life	6.1	13
-	Stooges: The Men Behind the Mayhem	6.1	25
-	Spencer Tracy: Triumph & Turmoil	6.1	8
-	W.C. Fields: Behind the Laughter	6.1	14
-	Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention	6.1	6
-	Joan Collins: A Personal Dynasty	6.0	10
-	Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire	6.0	6
-	Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France	6.0	8
-	Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death	6.0	10
-	Milton Berle: Mr. Television	6.0	5
-	Jerry Lewis	6.0	5
-	Osama bin Laden: In the Name of Allah	6.0	19
-	Julianne Moore: Seeing Red	6.0	5
-	Aileen Wuornos	6.0	6
-	Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare	6.0	6
-	Steven Spielberg: An Empire of Dreams	5.9	6
-	Florence Henderson: Here's the Story	5.9	6
-	James Bond: The Secret Life of 007	5.9	15
-	Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective	5.9	12
-	The Barrymores	5.9	15
-	Bernie Mac: TV's Family Man	5.9	9
-	Marvin Gaye: The Things We Hear	5.9	6
-	Roddy McDowall: Hollywood's Best Friend	5.8	23
-	Connie Francis: America's Sweetheart of Song	5.8	9
-	Andrew Jackson: A Man for the People	5.8	5
-	John Stamos	5.8	19
-	Al Capone: Scarface	5.8	11
-	Pierce Brosnan: Beyond Bond	5.8	13
-	Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within	5.8	17
-	Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance	5.8	13
-	Andy Warhol	5.7	16
-	Redd Foxx: Say It Like It Is	5.7	16
-	Jennifer Jones: Portrait of a Lady	5.7	38
-	Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Pop Music	5.7	6
-	Sandra Bullock: In the Driver's Seat	5.7	10
-	Jan & Dean: The Other Beach Boys	5.7	7
-	All the Presidents' Kids	5.6	10
-	Traci Lords	5.6	15
-	Robin Hood: Outlaw of the Forest	5.6	9
-	David Cassidy: The Reluctant Idol	5.5	10
-	Milton Hershey: The Chocolate King	5.5	6
-	Keanu Reeves	5.5	26
-	James Woods	5.5	9
-	Jim Jones: Journey Into Madness	5.5	5
-	Steven Seagal	5.5	15
-	Sal Mineo: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel	5.4	10
-	Gene Simmons	5.4	46
-	The Boston Strangler	5.4	6
-	Don Adams: Would You Believe?	5.4	6
-	George Eastman	5.4	17
-	Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind	5.4	11
-	John McEnroe	5.4	6
-	Arthur Godfrey: Broadcasting's Forgotten Giant	5.3	12
-	Larry Hagman: One More Shot	5.3	18
-	Marlon Brando: The Agony of Genius	5.3	20
-	John Ford: An American Vision	5.3	18
-	Sandra Dee: Sophisticated Baby	5.2	5
-	Anne Rice: Vampires, Witches and Best Sellers	5.2	5
-	Kevin Costner	5.2	23
-	John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise	5.2	18
-	Bob Newhart: The Last Sane Man...	5.2	17
-	Alan Alda: More Than Mr. Nice Guy	5.2	6
-	The Rock	5.1	31
-	Will Smith: Hollywood's Fresh Prince	5.1	24
-	Patti LaBelle	5.1	7
-	Angelina Jolie	5.1	7
-	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Television with a Bite	5.1	164
-	Richard Pryor: Comic on the Edge	5.1	10
-	Theodore Roosevelt: Roughrider to Rushmore	5.0	9
-	Close-Up: Sesame Street	5.0	6
-	Frank Serpico	5.0	42
-	Ted Bundy: The Mind of a Killer	5.0	27
-	John Travolta	5.0	66
-	Richard Speck: Natural Born Killer	5.0	7
-	Andy Kaufman	5.0	11
-	Rasputin: The Mad Monk	5.0	5
-	Dwight D. Eisenhower: Supreme Commander-in-Chief	5.0	11
-	The Manson Women: An American Nightmare	5.0	19
-	David Hasselhoff: Driven	4.9	9
-	Charles Manson: Journey Into Evil	4.9	17
-	The Green River Killer	4.9	14
-	Clark Gable: The King of Hollywood	4.9	12
-	James Cagney: Top of the World	4.9	10
-	Samuel L. Jackson	4.9	26
-	Bobby Darin: I Want to Be a Legend	4.8	15
-	Josef Mengele: Medical Madman of Auschwitz	4.8	9
-	Johnnie Cochran: The Best Defense	4.8	7
-	George Lucas: Creating an Empire	4.7	5
-	Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propaganda	4.7	46
20.32	Brat Pack	4.7	5
-	John Gotti: A Mafia Story	4.7	11
-	Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen	4.7	12
-	Child Stars II: Growing Up Hollywood	4.7	41
-	Henry Winkler: Hollywood's Coolest Character	4.6	6
-	Lisa Marie Presley	4.6	47
-	Andy Williams	4.6	5
-	Tom Hanks: The Luckiest Man in the World	4.6	8
-	David Berkowitz: Son of Sam	4.6	11
-	Richard Branson: The Top of the World	4.5	7
-	Tommy Lee	4.4	12
-	Andrew Cunanan	4.3	5
-	Mary Kay Letourneau: Out of Bounds	4.3	5
-	Charlie Sheen: Born to Be Wild	4.2	57
-	St. Francis of Assisi	4.2	6
-	Barbie	4.2	13
-	Bo Derek: The Perfect 10	4.1	11
-	The Babe: The Story of Babe Ruth	4.1	6
-	The Phantom: Comic Strip Crusader	4.1	5
-	Woodrow Wilson: Reluctant Warrior	4.0	7
-	LL Cool J	4.0	7
-	Zorro: Mark of the Z	4.0	24
-	Paula Abdul	4.0	5
-	Mickey Rooney	4.0	8
-	Hulk Hogan: American Made	4.0	9
-	Eisenhower: Supreme Commander in Chief	3.9	6
-	Morgan Fairchild	3.9	5
-	Danny Thomas: Make Room for Danny	3.8	8
-	Times Square: Glamour & Grit	3.8	9
-	John Wayne: American Legend	3.8	18
-	Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: Giving Up the Mob	3.7	5
-	Arnold Schwarzenegger: Flex Appeal	3.7	26
-	J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire	3.6	5
-	Peter Boyle	3.6	24
-	Patton: A Genius for War	3.6	5
-	John Ritter: In Good Company	3.5	5
-	All My Children	3.4	38
-	Pope John Paul II: Statesman of Faith	3.4	10
-	George W. Bush: Son Also Rises	3.4	25
-	Jerry Seinfeld: Master of His Domain	3.4	12
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