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    William Marshal: The Greatest Medieval Knight

    10/10At the age of 70, can England’s greatest knight still save the realm from invasion?

    Ida B. Wells and the Red Recorder

    9/10An intrepid reporter risks her life to expose lynchings in the American South.

    The Ballad of Crazy Horse

    8/10A mysterious Lakota warrior vows to protect his people at any cost.

    Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears

    7/10A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.

    Henry Johnson: Hellfighter

    6/10How did one man from the American South fight off an entire German party in World War One?

    Hugh Glass: The Real Story of The Revenant

    5/10Attacked by a bear and left for dead, can Hugh Glass crawl hundreds of miles to safety?

    Constance Bulwer-Lytton: Suffragette Rebel

    4/10A suffragette, hiding a secret, goes on hunger strike.

    Robert Smalls: Last Chance for Freedom

    3/10Can an enslaved man commandeer a Confederate ship and escape to freedom?

    Kitty O’Neil: Hollywood's Real Wonder Woman

    2/10How did a deaf woman defy the odds to become a Hollywood stuntwoman?

    Peter Freuchen: Surviving the Arctic Wilderness

    1/10An arctic explorer is trapped in a snow drift. How will he escape?

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