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Mike Tyson - Mini Bio (4:02)
An undisputed heavyweight campion, Mike Tyson became well-known for his ferocious and intimidating boxing style as well as his controversial behavior. In 1997, he made headlines for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a rematch.
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Magic Johnson - Mini Bio (3:34)
Magic Johnson dominated basketball for 13 years as a player for the L.A. Lakers. In 1991, he announced that he was HIV positive and used his name to raise awareness for the disease.
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LeBron James - Mini Bio (3:28)
LeBron James overcame a difficult childhood to become a high school basketball phenomenon. During his senior year, he made himself eligible for the NBA draft and immediately was chosen by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Jesse Owens - Mini Bio (3:39)
Jesse Owens was a notable runner from an early age. After setting records in high school and at Ohio State, Jesse Owens went on to win four gold medals at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936-- in the face of Adolf Hitler.
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Mini Bio (3:32)
Jackie Joyner is considered by many to be the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th Century. Her gold medal winning score from the heptathlon in 1988 still stands as the world record.
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Bono - Full Episode (45:19)
In 1976, Bono answered an ad asking for someone interested in forming a band. U2 was the result. While fronting one of the most successful bands in recent times, Bono is equally renowned for fighting third world poverty and AIDS.
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Under 21 and Filthy Rich - Full Episode (Biography) (43:15)
While today's young stars, athletes, and entrepreneurs all have different stories of how they became wealthy, they are all part of a club of young people who are able to make millions of dollars before they turn 21.
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Serena Williams - Mini Bio (3:16)
Serena Williams was only 3 years old when she and her sister, Venus, started playing tennis. Since turning pro, she's won countless Grand Slam titles and two Olympic gold medals.
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Arthur Ashe - Mini Bio (3:35)
Arthur Ashe was the first African-American male to win men's single titles at Wimbledon. Off the court, he became an anti-apartheid activist and brought attention to HIV/AIDs before succumbing to the disease in 1993.
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Althea Gibson - Mini Bio (3:33)
Althea Gibson's win at the French Open in 1956 made her the first African-American to win a Grand Slam tournament. After retiring, she became the first African American on Ladies Professional Golf Association circuit.
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Metallica - Full Episode (Biography) (45:19)
Metallica has gone from an underground heavy metal band to one of the most successful groups in the world.
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Thurgood Marshall - Full Episode (46:39)
Thurgood Marshall, the crusading attorney and civil rights activist who led the fight against school desegregation, became the first African-American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Tyler Perry - Full Episode (45:18)
Tyler Perry grew up in poverty in New Orleans and struck it rich with his straight-talking, advice-pushing, grandmotherly character Medea.
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Tyra Banks - Full Episode (45:21)
Tyra Banks quickly rose to the top of the Modeling charts, gracing the covers of hundreds of magazines and becoming the first African American woman to be on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
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Whitney Houston - Full Episode (45:34)
Signed by the legendary Clive Davis, Whitney Houston climbed the charts with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" and "I Will Always Love You." Her personal life turned tumultuous with her marriage to Bobby Brown and battles with drug addiction.
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Whoopi Goldberg - Full Episode (44:54)
Whoopi Goldberg started performing her own one self-titled show and went on to win an Oscar for her performance in "Ghost." She's now host of the tv talk-show "The View."
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Paul Castellano - Full Episode (Mobsters) (45:17)
"Big Paul" Castellano served as boss of the Gambino crime family--the largest in New York during the 1970's and 80's.
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Lucas, Eben, Darlene - Full Episode (I Survived Beyond & Back) (43:16)
A college boy is involved in a shocking car accident and flatlines numerous times. A neurosurgeon lapses into a coma with acute meningitis. A woman is drowned while scuba diving.
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Eben - Meningitis (I Survived Beyond & Back) (1:44)
Eben lapses into a coma with acute meningitis.
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Lucas - Dust and Headlights (I Survived Beyond & Back) (1:40)
Lucas is involved in a shocking car accident and flatlines numerous times.
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Darlene - Diving Accident (I Survived Beyond & Back) (1:47)
Darlene is drowned while scuba diving.
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Johnny - Pinned (I Survived) (1:33)
Johnny spends sixteen days trapped in his car after crashing into a ravine.
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Kaye - Intruder (I Survived) (1:54)
Kaye is brutally attacked in her home by a man with a knife
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Scott - Gunman (I Survived) (1:54)
Scott and his friend Michael are abducted by a gunman in their car.
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Kaye, Johnny, Scott - Full Episode (I Survived) (45:10)
A woman is brutally attacked in her home by a man with a knife. A man spends sixteen days trapped in his car after crashing into a ravine. Two college freshmen are abducted by a gunman in their car.
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Lori and Pat, David, Kevin - Full Episode (I Survived) (45:17)
An armed robbery on a Mexican beach escalates into a horrifying sexual assault. An afternoon run in the woods becomes a battle for survival. A pastor is disemboweled and left for dead by a knife wielding assailant.
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Jackie Robinson - Mini Bio (4:03)
While serving in the military, Jackie Robinson was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus. In 1947, he made history when his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended racial segregation in Major League Baseball.
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Dave Chappelle - Full Episode (42:57)
Dave Chappelle, who idolized the comedy of Bill Cosby as a young boy, is famous for racially provocative and envelope-pushing comedy.
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Denzel Washington - Full Episode (45:36)
Denzel Washington is a two-time Academy Award winner and the leading African-American actor of his generation.
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Halle Berry - Full Episode (45:16)
Halle Berry survived two divorces, a controversial hit and run charge, and a Razzie award for "Catwoman" to become the first African-American to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
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Richard Pryor - Full Episode (41:50)
Richard Pryor, the African-American stand-up comic and film star, broke new ground in comedy before throughout the course of his turbulent and iconic career.
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Jackie Robinson - Full Episode (22:48)
In his quest for excellence and equality, all-star athlete Jackie Robinson shatters the barriers of racism to become the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues.
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Bill Cosby - Full Episode (44:58)
Bill Cosby's hilarious riffs on life connected with audiences, and he became a stand-up and sitcom superstar.
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John - Scalped (I Survived Beyond & Back) (1:39)
John is scalped when a well explodes pushing him through a small metal frame.
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Jake - Cardiac Arrest (I Survived Beyond & Back) (1:57)
Jake dies from a massive heart attack.
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Shelley - Asphyxiation (I Survived Beyond & Back) (1:18)
A young mother with her four-year-old son skid off a flooded road and land upside down in a lake drowning both of them.
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Jeanette - Forced Entry (I Survived) (1:20)
Jeanette is assaulted, kidnapped and held captive for three days.
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Chris - Twister (I Survived) (1:55)
A tornado sweeps through Chris' home, dragging a sixteen wheel truck through his living room.
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Lisa - At Gun Point (I Survived) (1:06)
A gun-wielding man car-jacks and sexually assaults two young women before one of them flees naked down the road.
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Jessica - Machete Man (I Survived) (1:49)
A machete-wielding intruder terrorizes a Jessica in her apartment.
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Jeff and Mark - Grizzly Attack (I Survived) (1:42)
A savage attack by a grizzly bear leavens a man partially scalped and miles from help.
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Kerri - Fighter (I Survived) (1:50)
Kerri fights for her life after being abducted at knifepoint.
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Pablo Picasso - Mini Bio (4:41)
After meeting Gertrude Stein in Paris, Pablo Picasso developed cubism and flourished as an artist. His painting "Guernica," which depicts the bombing of Basque village during the Spanish Civil War, is considered his masterpiece.
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Carrie Underwood - Full Episode (45:01)
American Idol catapulted the 2005 winner, Carrie Underwood, from her idyllic childhood in small-town Oklahoma to the national stage to become a Country Music star.
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Stevie Wonder - Full Episode (45:15)
He was born prematurely and put in a malfunctioning incubator, leaving him permanently blind. He has gone on to win 25 Grammy Awards, a lifetime achievement award and an Academy Award.
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Maggie, Gary, Barbara - Full Episode (I Survived) (45:12)
A 15-year-old is snatched off the street on an early morning run. A man goes head-to-head with a killer chimpanzee. A woman is shot and left for dead in a freezer with two slain co-workers.
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Natalie Portman - Full Episode (45:12)
With a psychology degree from Harvard and an Academy Award for Black Swan, Natalie Portman has proven she's just as talented and intelligent as she is captivatingly gorgeous.
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Tom Arnold, Dee Snider, Carnie Wilson, Nia Long - Full Episode (Celebrity Ghost Stories) (45:15)
Tom Arnold angers a revengeful spirit. Dee Snider's murdered brother-in-law has a message. Carnie Wilson's sister introduces her to the spirit world. Nia Long has a shocking experience on the eve of her grandfather's death.
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Martin Short - Full Episode (45:19)
From SCTV to Saturday Night Live and Primetime Glick, Martin Short has spent decades entertaining audiences with his original characters.
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Sir Isaac Newton - Full Episode (44:21)
Sir Isaac Newton's scientific genius defined the laws of gravity, but his personal life was lonely and unhappy.
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