Biography
Biography is a documentary television series. Originally produced by CBS in 1962 and hosted by Mike Wallace, the A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The series has featured biographies on such people as Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Pope John Paul II, Enrico Caruso, Diego Rivera, Mick Foley, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman and Santa Claus. In 1999, A&E spun the program off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.
Genre: Documentary, Special Interest
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Episode 36
Adolfo Constanzo: The Godfather of Matamoros
aired: Mon, Aug 17, 2009
Born in Miami, FL in 1962. His mother immersed him in the cult of Palo Mayombe. Constanzo moved to Mexico City in 1983 on a modeling assignment after dropping out of community college.
Episode 34
Meredith Vieira
aired: Sat, Aug 8, 2009
Meredith Vieira has managed something few other stars in television news have pulled off. While going from local reporter to co-host of a number one-rated show, she has insisted on maintaining a personal life and time with her husband and kids.
Episode 32
Halle Berry
aired: Tue, Aug 4, 2009
Oscar-winner and Hollywood A-list hottie Halle Berry hasn't always had it easy; from a suicide attempt and a hit-and-run accident to two failed marriages, her life has been filled with a surprising amount of heartache.
Episode 29
Benedict Arnold: Triumph And Treason
aired: Thu, Jul 2, 1998
His treason and defection to the British made the name Benedict Arnold synonymous with traitor and his name is still used today as slang for evil and betrayal. What caused one of America's greatest patriots to become her most notorious turncoat?
Episode 27
Abraham Lincoln: Preserving The Union
aired: Sat, Jul 11, 2009
Abraham Lincoln's legacy lives on in the Union only he could preserve.
Episode 26
John And Abagail Adams: Love And Liberty
aired: Tue, Jul 7, 2009
John Adams was the driving force at the first pivotal meetings of the American Continental Congress in Philadelphia. His passion and eloquence convinced the Colonists to fight for their independence from the British, and a new nation was born.
Episode 23
Joe Biden
aired: Thu, Jul 2, 2009
The amazing journey of this working class boy turned Vice President. It features rare home movies of Biden from infant to toddler and touches on his struggle to overcome the terrible stutter that afflicted him during childhood.
Episode 22
Barack Obama
aired: Wed, Jul 1, 2009
Barack Obama's background made him uniquely able to capture the imagination of the electorate. But it wasn't always that way. Raised by his white mother and white grandparents, young "Barry Obama" often felt like an outsider.
Episode 18
Lewis & Clark
aired: Tue, Jun 16, 2009
Across the wild expanse... The adventures and travels of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they traversed the vast, unknown continent.
Episode 17
H.G. Wells: Time Traveler
aired: Tue, Jun 16, 2009
Herbert George Wells is best know as the author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and other works of striking invention that pioneered 20th century science fiction.
Episode 8
Al Qaeda
aired: Fri, May 8, 2009
"Biography: Al-Qaeda" will take our viewers on an astonishing journey around the globe and into the heart of this terrorist organization's secret world.
Episode 4
Lizzie Borden
aired: Fri, May 8, 2009
More than a hundred years ago a quite proper, thoroughly respectable New England spinster from a wealthly and prominent family was accused of an unthinkable crime, the brutal hatchet murders of her father and stepmother.
Episode 3
The Green River Killer: The Life Of Gary Ridgway
aired: Fri, May 8, 2009
Gary Ridgway, a mild mannered, church going, bible reading, swap meet enthusiast now has the most murder convictions of any single person in U.S. history.
Episode 2
The Hussein Family
aired: Fri, May 8, 2009
"The family that slays together, stays together." This was a family without limits. "Sadistic," "dysfunctional"...they did whatever it took to remain in power.
Episode 1
Jesse James & The James Gang
aired: Fri, May 8, 2009
Jesse James watches the brutal and bloody civil war in Kansas. Despite his youth, Jesse James joins the fight and quickly learns he has no problem with killing, in fact, he was known as a cool and deliberate customer.
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Biography: The House Of Windsor: Survival Of A Dynasty
aired: Tue, Jun 16, 2009
At the beginning of the Century, the House of Windsor ruled the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Ninety years later, the empire would be gone, and they would be wondering whether they could hang onto the throne.
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