This collection explores the blessings and burdens of extraordinary intellect across an eclectic range of films and shows. From gifted musicians and codebreakers to remarkable savants, we gain insight into lives ruled by uncanny mental abilities. Titles feature real-life figures like chess masters Bobby Fischer and Josh Waitzkin, physicist Stephen Hawking, mathematician John Nash, computer pioneers like Steve Jobs, and many more fictional characters endowed with rare gifts. Prepare to be fascinated by these candid portraits spanning biopics, dramas, thrillers, and documentaries about some of history’s most brilliant minds.

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