The Greats

This engaging series profiles 130 of the most-recognized people of the 20th century.

26 x 30 minutes / 2017

    1. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Wright Brothers; Jane Fonda; Albert Einstein; Babe Ruth
    2. Queen Elizabeth II; Oprah Winfrey; Ernest Shackleton; Barbara Streisand
    3. Indira Gandhi; Muhammad Ali; Nelson Mandela; Alfred Hitchcock
    4. Elizabeth Taylor; Dame Nellie Melba; Pablo Picasso; Richard Branson; Rupert Murdoch
    5. Marilyn Monroe; The Beatles. Simone De Beauvoir; Salvador Dali
    6. Margaret Thatcher; Dolly Parton; Jesse Owens; Humphrey Bogart
    7. Neil Armstrong; Anita Roddick; Charlie Chaplin; Vivienne Westwood; Amelia Earhart
    8. Abdul Nasser; George Lucas; Annika Sorenstam; Grace Kelly
    9. Jimmy Carter; Vivien Leigh; Jack Dempsey; Anne Frank;
      Aung San Suu Kyi
    10. Princess Diana; Danny Kaye; Martina Navratilova; Torvil and Dean
    11. George Bernard Shaw; Guglielmo Marconi; Audrey Hepburn;
      Mother Theresa
    12. Winston Churchill; Manolo Blahnik; Vera Lynn; Sir Edmund Hillary
    13. Luciano Pavarotti; Rudyard Kipling; Judy Garland; Michael Schumacher; Edith Piaf
    1. John F. Kennedy; Tiger Woods; Eleanor Roosevelt; Walt Disney
    2. Thomas Edison; Diane Keaton; Pele; Frida Kahlo; Marie Curie
    3. Mikhail Gorbachev; Sophia Loren; Robert Goddard; Golda Meir
    4. Arthur Miller; Marcel Marceau; Julie Andrews; Helen Keller
    5. Elvis Presley; Barbara Walters; Bill Gates; Hanan Ashrawi
    6. The Suffragettes; Steven Spielberg; J.K. Rowling; Roger Bannister
    7. Judi Dench; David Beckham; Peter Sellers; Jean Batten; Mick Jagger
    8. Bill Clinton; Noel Coward; Nancy Astor; Cary Grant
    9. Katherine Hepburn; Mahatma Gandhi; Johnny Cash; Beatrix Potter; Benazir Bhutto
    10. Hedy Lamarr; Yuri Gagarin; Patti Smith; Magic Johnson;
      Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    11. Benjamin Franklin; Bette Davis; Joe Louis; Madonna; Orson Welles.
    12. Yitzhak Rabin; Carole King; Jack Nicklaus; Marlene Dietrich;
      Paul Robeson
    13. Dimaggio; Woody Allen; Xanana Gusmao; Laurence Olivier;
      Mary Pickford

Produced by Switch International.