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Profiling the life and political career of Chiang Kai-shek, the former president of Nationalist China.

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Painter Vincent Van Gogh has a short, turbulent but gifted life.

Russian Czar Ivan, the Terrible, conquers Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia.

Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark set out to explore the Pacific Ocean in 1804.

A renowned president, Thomas Jefferson was also a slave owner, debtor and allegedly the father of several illegitimate children.

Gen. George Marshall is a World War II soldier and statesman.

Rumors of incest and murder tar the reputation of Lucrezia Borgia.

Novelist Charles Dickens rises from a blacking factory to world-wide fame.

In 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier to become the first black major-league ballplayer.

The monk Rasputin controls the czarina in a Russia on the verge of revolution.

Financial advisers Louis Rukeyser, Lou Dobbs and others discuss the impact of Wall Street geniuses Charles Dow and Edward Jones.

The Gambino crime family comes to power when Carlo Gambino has Albert Anastasia shot; Paul Castellano; John Gotti.