Favorite Biographical "Father of ...." Episodic Series?

Young Czech-Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, investigates a murder conspiracy in 1880's Vienna.

The aquatic explorations of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso.

Pablo Picasso confronts the threat of fascism in Spain, and Young Pablo rejects traditional painting to search for his own voice.

The story of Albert Einstein, seen through glimpses of his twilight years and flashbacks to his time as a student in Munich and Zürich in the 1890s.

The life story of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

A royal woman living in rural Russia during the 18th century is forced to choose between her own personal happiness and the future of Russia, when she marries an Emperor.

Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs.

The struggle for performance and technology in the budding aviation industry. Between the Wright Brothers and the Glenn Curtiss.

Covers the struggle between William Hearst and his idol Joseph Pulitzer for control of the publishing industry at the turn of the 18th century.

The invention of the perfect revolver pits Samuel Colt and Daniel Wesson in a race for patents that will forever revolutionize the firearm industry.

Outlines the lives of two titan's of the telecommunications industry. Farnsworth who's largely responsible for the invention of the television. And Sarnoff who while running RCA laid the ground work for the television networks of the 21st century.

A look at two physicists on opposite sides of the race for the first atomic bomb during World War II.

America and the Soviet Union set out to conquer the moon, but much more than space flight is at stake.

Two famous personalities - Edison and Tesla - fight it out for providing the world with Electric power, with the way they think is the future.

The life of Henry Ford, and how he changed America while keeping his family together.

The biopic film follows visionary Inventor Carl Benz, who invented the first car and was the founding father of Mercedes-Benz.

From PBS - Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility amidst one of the largest, tallest, and most unnatural places on earth. This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect. In his own words, Olmsted and America's Urban Parks weaves together Olmsted's engaging and poignant personal story with those of the lasting masterpieces he left for us today, featuring Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Kline as the voice of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Combative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s. Later, Rickover built the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier and the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA. Rickover's achievements made him into a national celebrity, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Today, questions about nuclear power have arisen again, in the wake of the disaster in Japan, yet nuclear power remains one of the main alternatives to fossil fuels. Many wonder whether America can maintain its technological pre-eminence and whether we can still build and manage large-scale projects. To understand these issues, RICKOVER considers the story of the man who created the Nuclear Navy as well as the civilian nuclear power industry: Hyman G. Rickover.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee tells the story of how he created the World Wide Web and discusses current threats to the internet as we know it.

The life and legacy of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball and its 13 original rules, is told through the mission of his grandson, Ian, who travels the country in an RV, carrying the original rules in a golden attache case, spreading the cause of sportsmanship.

The early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.