About this season
1997
Episodes (51)
1. Anastasia: Her True Story
Aired 9 January 1997 • 60 min
2. Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero
Aired 16 January 1997 • 60 min
3. Augustus: First of the Emperors
Aired 23 January 1997 • 60 min
4. Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror
Aired 30 January 1997 • 60 min
5. Caligula: Reign of Madness
Aired 6 February 1997 • 60 min
6. Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road
Aired 13 February 1997 • 60 min
7. Constantine: The Christian Emperor
Aired 20 February 1997 • 60 min
8. David Copperfield: Master of Illusion
Aired 27 February 1997 • 60 min
9. Diana: The People's Princess
Aired 6 March 1997 • 60 min
10. Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street
Aired 13 March 1997 • 60 min
11. Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society
Aired 20 March 1997 • 60 min
12. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic
Aired 27 March 1997 • 60 min
13. Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America
Aired 3 April 1997 • 60 min
14. Eliot Ness: Untouchable
Aired 10 April 1997 • 60 min
15. Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen
Aired 17 April 1997 • 60 min
16. Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch
Aired 24 April 1997 • 60 min
17. Erwin Rommel: The Last Knight
Aired 1 May 1997 • 60 min
18. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
Aired 8 May 1997 • 60 min
19. Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob
Aired 15 May 1997 • 60 min
20. General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman
Aired 22 May 1997 • 60 min
21. George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier
Aired 29 May 1997 • 60 min
22. Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age
Aired 5 June 1997 • 60 min
23. Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness
Aired 12 June 1997 • 60 min
24. J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire
Aired 19 June 1997 • 60 min
25. JFK: A Personal Story
Aired 26 June 1997 • 60 min
26. Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life
Aired 3 July 1997 • 60 min
27. Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty
Aired 10 July 1997 • 60 min
28. Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
Aired 17 July 1997 • 60 min
29. Justinian: The Last of the Romans
Aired 24 July 1997 • 60 min
30. Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post
Aired 31 July 1997 • 60 min
31. Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master
Aired 7 August 1997 • 60 min
32. Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison
Aired 14 August 1997 • 60 min
33. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream
Aired 21 August 1997 • 60 min
34. Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon
Aired 28 August 1997 • 60 min
35. Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion
Aired 4 September 1997 • 60 min
36. Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady
Aired 11 September 1997 • 60 min
37. Neiman Marcus: Last of the Merchant Kings
Aired 18 September 1997 • 60 min
38. Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire
Aired 25 September 1997 • 60 min
39. Nero: The Power and the Madness
Aired 2 October 1997 • 60 min
40. Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero
Aired 9 October 1997 • 60 min
41. R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince
Aired 16 October 1997 • 60 min
42. Sam Giancana
Aired 23 October 1997 • 60 min
43. Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire
Aired 30 October 1997 • 60 min
44. Samuel Bronfman: Whiskey Man
Aired 6 November 1997 • 60 min
45. Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind
Aired 13 November 1997 • 60 min
46. Stanley & Livingstone: The Mercenary and the Missionary
Aired 20 November 1997 • 60 min
47. The Gambinos: First Family of Crime
Aired 21 September 1997 • 91 min
A profile of New York's Gambino crime family examines the rise of its founder, Carlo Gambino, and that of his successors, Paul Castellano and John Gotti.
48. The Marshall Fields: A Chicago Tradition
Aired 4 December 1997 • 60 min
49. The Woolworths: Five-and-Dime Fortune and Failure
Aired 11 December 1997 • 60 min
50. Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All
Aired 18 December 1997 • 60 min
51. Vladimir Lenin: Voice of the Revolution
Aired 25 December 1997 • 60 min