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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April 12, 2026

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Biography

Sir Isaac Newton: The Gravity of Genius

Chronicles the life of the scientific genius who laid the foundations for calculus and defined the laws of gravity, but who lived a lonely and unhappy personal life.

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Biography

Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention

The remarkable life story of the man whose driving passion--to enable the deaf to communicate--led to the invention of the telephone. Includes a look at his interest in speed boating and how he saved the "National Geographic" from financial ruin.

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Biography

Dow and Jones

Fascinating story of Charles Dow and Edward Jones, whose dissimilar geniuses produced the indispensable Dow Jones stock index. Financial gurus Louis Rukeyser, Lou Dobbs, and others discuss the lives of Dow and Jones, and how their index changed the world.

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Biography

Albert Einstein

A profile of one of the 20th century's most important minds and recognizable faces--his very name a synonym for genius. Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein was a surprisingly poor student, and failed his first entrance exam to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. We look at his long road to recognition, his brilliant theories, including relativity, his Nobel Prize in Physics, and his lifelong work for and devotion to international peace and world government.

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Einstein

Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory that turned the world upside down might have been dismissed but for a math mistake, a cloudy sky, and the start of World War I.

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The Mystery of Genius

In a 2-hour study of a rare human trait, we learn how to define the seven types of recognized genius, and meet medical experts and geniuses as they measure and demonstrate this largely misunderstood phenomenon.

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