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What It Takes® — 228 episodes

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Cindy Sherman: Illusions of Identity

2

Tara VanDerveer: A Vision for Victory

3

Billie Jean King: Racquet Revolutionary

4

Jane Goodall In Memoriam: A Dedicated Pursuit

5

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: Shivering with Curiosity

6

Gustavo Dudamel: The Power of Music

7

BestOf(2024)_Johnny Cash: True To His Own Voice

8

In Memoriam_James Earl Jones: The Voice of Triumph

9

In Memoriam_Edna O'Brien: Love, Loss and Literature

10

Pete Townshend: Who I Am

11

Willie Mays: For the Love of the Game_In Memoriam

12

Jeff Koons: Contemporary Art Phenomenon

13

Best of (Nobel Prize Edition) - Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman: The Vaccine Revolution

14

Best Of - Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

15

T.J. Stiles and David Blight: The Epic Life

16

Best of - Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding: Jazz Invention

17

Best Of - Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam: Truth Seekers

18

Best Of - Maya Angelou (Part 2): In the Spirit of Martin

19

Best Of - Nora Ephron: Unstoppable Wit

20

Best of - John Irving: A Literary Life

21

Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

22

Roger Daltrey: Rock Icon

23

Best of - Milton Friedman: Champion of Capitalism

24

Best of - Sonia Sotomayor: Power of Words

25

Mike Wallace and Art Buchwald: Blues Brothers

26

Best Of - B.B. King: King of the Blues

27

Best of - David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers

28

Best of - Bill Russell: Giant of a Man

29

Best of - John Hume and David Trimble: A Vision of Peace

30

Best of - Frank McCourt: Teacher Man

31

Best of - Steve Jobs and Tony Fadell: Inventing the Future

32

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman: The Vaccine Revolution

33

Best of - Lauryn Hill: Family, Faith & Hip-Hop

34

Best of - Daniel Inouye and Norman Mineta: In Defense of Liberty

35

Best of - Naomi Judd: Dream Chaser

36

Andrea Ghez and Donna Strickland: Frontiers of Knowledge

37

Best of - Edward Teller: Destroyer of Worlds

38

General C.Q. Brown and Lt. Col. James Harvey: Wings of Freedom

39

Best of - Coach John Wooden: Character for Life

40

Best of - Lynsey Addario: Portraits of Love and War

41

Best of - Andrew Young: My Life, My Destiny

42

Best of - Rosa Parks and Judge Frank Johnson: Standing Up for Freedom

43

Tenley Albright: Miracles on Ice

44

E.O. Wilson, Richard Evans Schultes and Wade Davis: Pl(ants) of the Gods

45

Best of - Sidney Poitier: Trailblazing Screen Legend

46

Best of - Archbishop Desmond Tutu: The Power of Faith

47

Edna O’Brien: Love, Loss and Literature

48

Best of - Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kaminski: Images of the Imagination

49

Best of - Stephen Sondheim: Maestro of Broadway

50

Best of - Carole King and Hal David: More Than Beautiful

51

Zahi Hawass and Kent Weeks: Golden Age of the Pharaohs

52

Best of - General Colin Powell: My American Journey

53

Best of - Johnny Cash: True To His Own Voice

54

Denton Cooley, Willem Kolff and William DeVries: King of Hearts

55

Best of - George Lucas: The Force Will Be With You

56

Christiane Amanpour: Life on the Front Line

57

Hamid Karzai: Chaos Rules

58

Best of - James Michener: Master Storyteller

59

Robert Ballard: Modern-Day Captain Nemo

60

Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard and Elie Wiesel: Messengers of Humanity

61

Best of - Sir Roger Bannister: The Mile of the Century

62

Twyla Tharp and Justin Peck: High Priests of Creative Movement

63

Best of - Mike (Coach K) Krzyzewski: Inspiring Greatness

64

Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson: The Quest for Humankind

65

Best of - Bill Russell: Giant of a Man

66

Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Robert Zemeckis: The Magic of Film

67

Best Of - Willie Mays: For the Love of the Game

68

Carol Guzy: Visual Storyteller

69

Sal Khan: The World's Teacher

70

Larry Ellison and Ted Turner: Prophets of Innovation

71

John Mather, Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess: Masters of the Universe

72

Audra McDonald: Trusting Your Own Power

73

Best of - August Wilson and Lloyd Richards: The Voice of Genius

74

Larry King: The King of Talk

75

Best of - Hank Aaron: Field of Dreams

76

Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam: Truth Seekers

77

Best of - Benazir Bhutto: Paying the Ultimate Price

78

Trevor Nunn: A Love Letter to Theater

79

Judy Collins: Amazing Grace

80

Shelby Foote, Arthur Golden and Carol Shields: Literary Pursuits

81

Wayne Thiebaud and Fritz Scholder: Palette of American Life

82

Willie Brown: The Political Life

83

David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers

84

Best of - Louise Glück: Revenge Against Circumstance

85

Sandra Day O’Connor, Erma Bombeck and Hilary Swank: The Power Within

86

Best of - Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Justice For All

87

Cal Ripken Jr.: The Iron Man

88

Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal: Words Become Me

89

John Hume and David Trimble: A Vision of Peace

90

Best of - Olivia de Havilland: The Last Belle of Cinema

91

Pitbull (Armando Christian Pérez): I’m Possible

92

Best of - John Lewis: The Spirit of History

93

Ron Howard: Imagine Success

94

Best of - Maya Angelou: Righteousness and Love

95

Orhan Pamuk and Carlos Fuentes: The Art of Fiction

96

Bryan Stevenson and John Hope Franklin: Voices of Conscience

97

Best of - Coretta Scott King: The Courage to Dream

98

Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life

99

Lt. Michael Thornton and Lt. Tommy Norris: Portraits of Valor

100

Julie Taymor: Creativity on the Edge

101

Best Of - Jonas Salk: Vanquisher of Polio

102

Gertrude Elion and Baruch Blumberg: Vaccine Hunters

103

Best Of - Anthony Fauci: From Aristotle to AIDS

104

Milton Friedman: Champion of Capitalism

105

James Allison: Immune to Failure

106

Daniel Inouye and Norman Mineta: In Defense of Liberty

107

Buddy Guy: I’ve Got the Blues

108

Lynn Nottage and Suzan-Lori Parks: Drama Queens

109

John Lewis: The Spirit of History

110

Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Tech Titans

111

Vince Gill: Country Music Icon

112

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Theatrical Impresario

113

Martine Rothblatt: Transcending Boundaries

114

Ian McEwan: Illuminating the Human Condition

115

Wole Soyinka: The Literary Lion

116

Jennifer Doudna and Feng Zhang: The Code of Life

117

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: The Fairytale Diva

118

Amy Tan: Discovering My Voice

119

Lord Norman Foster: Building the Future

120

Toni Morrison and Harold Prince: Immortal Voices

121

Peter Jackson: Master of Film Fantasy

122

Sylvia Earle and David Doubilet: The Living Oceans

123

Hank Aaron: Field of Dreams

124

Anthony Romero: Guardian of Civil Liberties

125

Alice Waters: A Love Affair with Food

126

General David Petraeus: The Perils of Victory

127

Suzanne Farrell: Ballerina of the Century

128

A. Scott Berg: Chronicler of The American Century

129

Jimmy Carter: From Plains to the Presidency

130

Peter Gabriel: Genesis of a Rock Star

131

Brendan Sullivan: Standing Up to Power

132

Susan Butcher: Call of the Wild

133

Frances Arnold: A Nobel Vision

134

Michael Caine: An Accent on Life

135

John Updike: Dreams from My Mother

136

Chuck Yeager: The Right Stuff

137

Johnny Mathis: Timeless Voice of Romance

138

Stephen Sondheim: Maestro of Broadway

139

Rita Dove and W.S. Merwin: A Gift for Language

140

Sir Edmund Hillary and Reinhold Messner: King of the Mountain

141

Lord Martin Rees: The Future of Humanity

142

Leymah Gbowee: A Call from God

143

Lynsey Addario: Portraits of Love and War

144

Norman Schwarzkopf: Duty, Honor, Country

145

Peyton Manning and Herschel Walker: Preparing to Win

146

Bernie Taupin: Lyrical Inspiration

147

Khaled Hosseini, Scott Turow and Charles Krauthammer: Second Lives

148

Beverly and Dereck Joubert: Spirit of the Wild

149

Anthony Fauci: From Aristotle to AIDS

150

Jessye Norman: Living My Life in Song

151

John Banville: Literary Confessions

152

Julie Andrews: An Angel on My Shoulder

153

Andrew Weil: The Healing Power of Nature

154

Kazuo Ishiguro: Lyrical Tales of Emotion

155

Demis Hassabis: A.I. Mastermind

156

Wallace Stegner and N. Scott Momaday: Chroniclers of the American West

157

Steve Schwarzman: King of Wall Street

158

Bartlett Sher: A Reason to Sing

159

Jeremy Irons: Thespian and Provocateur

160

Dorothy Hamill and Scott Hamilton: The Price of Gold

161

Sue Grafton: The Alphabet Ends at Y

162

Maya Lin: The Art of Remembrance

163

Edward Teller: Destroyer of Worlds

164

Anthony M. Kennedy: Principles of Freedom

165

Jimmy Page: Guitar Hero

166

Itzhak Perlman: The Gift of Music

167

Ernest J. Gaines: Letters of My Ancestors

168

Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter: Jazz Invention

169

Leon Panetta: Decisive Action

170

James Earl Jones: The Voice of Triumph

171

General Colin Powell: My American Journey

172

Barbra Streisand and Pat Conroy: The Way We Were

173

Jeff Bezos: Regret Minimization

174

Louise Glück: Revenge Against Circumstance

175

Naomi Judd: Dream Chaser

176

Rosa Parks and Judge Frank Johnson: Standing Up for Freedom

177

Robert Langer: Edison of Medicine

178

Sally Ride and Eileen Collins: Wonder Women

179

Frank McCourt: Teacher Man

180

Leslie Wexner: Victoria's Other Secret

181

Nora Ephron: Unstoppable Wit

182

Bill Russell: Giant of a Man

183

Sonia Sotomayor: Power of Words

184

Sally Field: Embracing Fear

185

Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley Grandmaster

186

August Wilson and Lloyd Richards: The Voice of Genius

187

Chuck Jones: The Fine Art of Laughter

188

Jane Goodall: A Dedicated Pursuit

189

Maya Angelou, Part 2: In the Spirit of Martin

190

Maya Angelou: Righteousness and Love

191

Albie Sachs: Freedom Fighter

192

Thomas Keller: Recipe for Success

193

Doris Kearns Goodwin: Presidential Ambitions

194

Frank O. Gehry: Building the Inspiring Space

195

John Irving: A Literary Life

196

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Justice For All

197

Wynton Marsalis: Philosopher King of Jazz

198

Steven Rosenberg: Finding a Cure for Cancer

199

Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush: The Freedom to Lead

200

Sir Roger Bannister: The Mile of the Century

201

Elie Wiesel: A Light in the Darkness

202

Carole King and Hal David: More Than Beautiful

203

Olivia de Havilland: The Last Belle of Cinema

204

Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kaminski: Images of the Imagination

205

Quincy Jones: The Music Man

206

Ray Dalio: Maestro of the Markets

207

Barry Scheck: The Innocence Project

208

Carol Burnett: Laughter and Reflection

209

Coach John Wooden: Character for Life

210

Steve Jobs and Tony Fadell: Inventing the Future

211

Sidney Poitier: Trailblazing Screen Legend

212

Lauryn Hill: Family, Faith & Hip-Hop

213

Andrew Young: My Life, My Destiny

214

Coretta Scott King: The Courage to Dream

215

Lee Berger: In the Footsteps of Eve

216

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: The Power of Faith

217

George Lucas: The Force Will Be With You

218

William McRaven: A Life of Service

219

James Michener: Master Storyteller

220

Mike (Coach K) Krzyzewski: Inspiring Greatness

221

B.B. King: King of the Blues

222

Benazir Bhutto: Paying the Ultimate Price

223

Jonas Salk: Vanquisher of Polio

224

Oprah Winfrey, Part 2: A Vision for Success

225

Oprah Winfrey: The Queen of Talk… and Determination

226

Willie Mays: For the Love of the Game

227

Johnny Cash: True To His Own Voice

228

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