Best of - Johnny Cash: True To His Own Voice
He had a voice that could make a mountain quake. And his impact on the world of music is legendary. As fans prepare to celebrate the arrival of a new ...
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Revealing, intimate conversations with visionaries and leaders in the arts, science, technology, public service, sports and business. These engaging personal stories are drawn from interviews with the American Academy of Achievement, and offer insights you’ll want to apply to your own life.
Denton Cooley, Willem Kolff and William DeVries: King of Hearts
The 1960's, 70's and 80's brought about a revolution in the treatment of heart and kidney disease. Dialysis, organ transplants, coronary bypass, open...
Best of - George Lucas: The Force Will Be With You
George Lucas’s only dream as a teenager was to race cars, but he went on to create the most popular films in motion picture history. Along the way, w...
Christiane Amanpour: Life on the Front Line
She is one of the most recognized, respected and admired journalists in the world. Christiane Amanpour has covered just about every war and conflict o...
Hamid Karzai: Chaos Rules
Two decades ago, he rode into Afghanistan on a motorcycle with just three compatriots, hoping to overthrow the brutal Taliban regime. Against all odds...
Best of - James Michener: Master Storyteller
James Michener was born to tell stories. He was one of the most popular and best-selling American novelists of all time… able to merge equal parts fic...
Robert Ballard: Modern-Day Captain Nemo
He’s a modern-day Captain Nemo - the person responsible for much of what we’ve learned about the Earth’s oceans over the past sixty years. He’s best-k...
Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard and Elie Wiesel: Messengers of Humanity
These three writers used the power of their pens to expose and explore man's inhumanity to man. You'll hear the presentations they gave at the Academ...
Best of - Sir Roger Bannister: The Mile of the Century
On the morning of May 6th, 1954, Roger Bannister achieved what most people believed was not humanly possible: he ran a mile in under four minutes. It...
Twyla Tharp and Justin Peck: High Priests of Creative Movement
These two choreographers have pushed dance in bold new directions and brought it to a much wider audience. Both Twyla Tharp and Justin Peck are classi...