Biographies Videos

We may know about a famous person's accomplishments, but what do we know about THEM? What is the human-interest story in THEIR lives? This biography collection features the stories behind the lives of some famous (and not-so-famous) individuals.

Bill James is an Army veteran.

This clip of an Armed Forces Network (AFN) Europe broadcast features Bill James and his sabermetrics approach to studying Major-League Baseball (MLB).

It didn't take Bill James to invent sabermetrics - the statistical system of valuing baseball players featured in Moneyball (the book and film) - to k...

What is the Baseball Abstract which Bill James first wrote - as an annual book - in 1977?

In 1949, Dr. Billy Graham traveled by train from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.

Now a fearsome pirate of the Caribbean, Blackbeard and his men captured a French ship called La Concorde.

Blackbeard, the famous pirate, was known as Edward Teach in his earlier life.

This is the trailer for "Blow," a film which tells the story of George Jung - and how his cocaine-using-selling ways got him into serious trouble (wit...

While he was still Attorney General, during his brothers administration, Bobby Kennedy told journalists that an African-American could be president of...

This is the trailer for "Bobby," a film about the assassination of Senator Kennedy by Emilio Estevez.

During the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when the Boers refused to surrender to the Anglos, the British rounded-up thousands of Afrikaners (Boers...

Napoleon was a Corsican who became Emperor of France.

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