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1. William Marshal: The Greatest Medieval Knight

   10/10At the age of 70, can England’s greatest knight still save the realm from invasion?
2. Ida B. Wells and the Red Recorder

   9/10An intrepid reporter risks her life to expose lynchings in the American South.
3. The Ballad of Crazy Horse

   8/10A mysterious Lakota warrior vows to protect his people at any cost.
4. Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears

   7/10A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.
5. Henry Johnson: Hellfighter

   6/10How did one man from the American South fight off an entire German party in World War One?
6. 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?
7. Constance Bulwer-Lytton: Suffragette Rebel

   4/10A suffragette, hiding a secret, goes on hunger strike.
8. Robert Smalls: Last Chance for Freedom

   3/10Can an enslaved man commandeer a Confederate ship and escape to freedom?
9. Kitty O’Neil: Hollywood's Real Wonder Woman

   2/10How did a deaf woman defy the odds to become a Hollywood stuntwoman?
10. Peter Freuchen: Surviving the Arctic Wilderness

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

    1/10Adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge, with Ray Winstone.