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  1. William Marshal: The Greatest Medieval Knight

    10/11 At the age of 70, can England’s greatest knight still save the realm from invasion?

  2. Ida B. Wells and the Red Recorder

    9/11 An intrepid reporter risks her life to expose lynchings in the American South.

  3. The Ballad of Crazy Horse

    8/11 A mysterious Lakota warrior vows to protect his people at any cost.

  4. Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears

    7/11 A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.

  5. Henry Johnson: Hellfighter

    6/11 How 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

    5/11 Attacked by a bear and left for dead, can Hugh Glass crawl hundreds of miles to safety?

  7. Constance Bulwer-Lytton: Suffragette Rebel

    4/11 A suffragette, hiding a secret, goes on hunger strike.

  8. Robert Smalls: Last Chance for Freedom

    3/11 Can an enslaved man commandeer a Confederate ship and escape to freedom?

  9. Kitty O’Neil: Hollywood's Real Wonder Woman

    2/11 How did a deaf woman defy the odds to become a Hollywood stuntwoman?

  10. Peter Freuchen: Surviving the Arctic Wilderness

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

  11. Trailer

    1/11 Adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge, with Ray Winstone.