EVERY SUNDAY Biography

Meet the trailblazers, trendsetters, and architects of change. It’s the remarkable story of real people who made a real impact, from small towns to around the globe.

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May 5, 2024

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Annie Oakley: Crack Shot in Petticoats

Saga of the prim and proper Victorian lady who turned the American frontier upside down with her brilliant shooting and dazzling performances in Wild West shows.

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Crazy Horse: The Last Warrior

Story of the great chief of the Oglala Sioux who helped defeat General Custer at Little Bighorn. Crazy Horse fought all his life to protect Indian lands and treaty rights, and defeated General George Crook at the Battle of the Rosebud just eight days before his encounter with Custer.

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Geronimo: The Last Renegade

Story of the great Apache guerrilla warrior Goyathlay, called by the Mexicans Geronimo. Forced off his Arizona land by government authorities in 1876, the embittered Geronimo launches a series of bloody raids against white settlers.

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Wild Bill Hickok: The Gentleman of the West

Profile of the fabled Western scout, frontiersman, gunfighter, and gambler. Was Hickok a hero or hooligan, lawman or outlaw? We follow the legend from his humble beginnings in Homer, Kansas, to the Gold Rush fields of Deadwood, South Dakota, to the fateful day in 1876, when he drew the infamous "dead man's hand.

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Earp Brothers: The Lawmen of the West

Story of the controversial frontier lawmen. Follow the violent trail from Dodge City and Tombstone to the famous shoot-out at the OK Corral.

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Sitting Bull: Chief of the Lakota Nation

Profile of the great Sioux warrior and mystic medicine man who led his people in a bloody struggle for survival against the encroachment of the white man's "civilization." Includes the story of his victory over Custer at Little Bighorn.

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Buffalo Bill

The real-life adventures of William F. Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, whose exploits as a frontiersman were exaggerated and immortalized by writer Ned Buntline in his pulp stories.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The real story of the gangster immortalized in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Viewers will be surprised to learn that the Sundance Kid was killed in the Bolivian gunfight, depicted in the movie, but Butch escaped.