Biography : episode ratings graphOverview Next episode Release date Best episodes Ratings graph Similar shows Cast THE TOP FIVE 01 10.0 BONNIE & CLYDE: THE STORY OF … S01E11 02 10.0 LIZZIE BORDEN: A WOMAN ACCUSED S01E14 03 10.0 ANDREW JACKSON: A MAN FOR THE… S03E43 04 10.0 ALBERT DESALVO: THE BOSTON ST… S05E07 05 9.5 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER S18E09 THE LOW NOSTRADAMUS: PROPHET … · S07E67 SERIES AVG 9.2 BEST SEASON S1 SEASONS 16 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S9 S10 S11 S12 S13 S14 S18 S19 S20 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 E10 E11 E12 E13 E14 E15 E16 E17 E18 E19 E20 E21 E22 E23 E24 E25 E26 E27 E28 E29 E30 E31 E32 E33 E34 E35 E36 E37 E38 E39 E40 E41 E42 E43 E44 E45 E46 E47 E48 E49 E50 E51 E52 E53 E54 E55 E56 E57 E58 E59 E60 E61 E62 E63 E64 E65 E66 E67 E68 E69 E70 E71 E72 E73 E74 E75 E76 E77 E78 E79 E80 E81 S01E01 6 Apr. 1987 — unrated S01E02 Al Capone: Scarface — unrated S01E03 Bob Hope: America's Entertainer — 9.0 S01E03 9.0 S01E04 Bugsy Siegel — unrated S01E05 Dalai Lama: The Soul of Tibet — unrated S01E06 King Arthur: His Life and Legends — unrated S01E07 Lucky Luciano: Chairman of the Mob — unrated S01E08 Nelson Mandela: Journey to Freedom — unrated S01E09 Muhammad: The Prophet — unrated S01E10 Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France — unrated S01E11 Bonnie & Clyde: The Story of Love & Death — 10.0 S01E11 10.0 S01E12 Babe Ruth — unrated S01E13 Frederick Douglass — unrated S01E14 Lizzie Borden: A Woman Accused — 10.0 S01E14 10.0 S01E15 Milton Hershey: The Chocolate King — unrated S02E01 Muhammad: The Prophet — unrated S03E01 Harry S. Truman — unrated S03E02 Henry Ford: Tin Lizzy Tycoon — unrated S03E03 Mata Hari — unrated S03E04 Paul Revere — unrated S03E05 Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon — unrated S03E06 Sid Caesar: Television's Comedy Genius — unrated S03E07 The Rockefellers — unrated S03E08 Teddy: A Kennedy Portrait — unrated S03E09 General Omar Bradley — unrated S03E10 Marilyn Monroe - Behind the Legend — unrated S03E11 Houdini: The Great Escape — unrated S03E12 George Washington: Founding Father — unrated S03E13 Christa McAuliffe: Teacher in Space — unrated S03E14 Wilbur and Orville: Dreams of Flying — unrated S03E15 Gene Roddenberry: Star Trek and Beyond — unrated S03E16 Donald Trump: Master of the Deal — unrated S03E17 Frank Capra: Mr. Capra Goes to America — unrated S03E18 Davy Crockett: American Frontier Legend — unrated S03E19 Roy Rogers: American Legend — unrated S03E20 Willie Nelson — unrated S03E21 Patsy Cline: Remembering Patsy — unrated S03E22 W.C. Fields: Behind the Laughter — unrated S03E23 Eleanor Roosevelt: A Restless Spirit — unrated S03E24 The Babe: The Story of Babe Ruth — unrated S03E25 Pope John Paul II: Statesman of Faith — unrated S03E26 Bette Davis: If Looks Could Kill — unrated S03E27 Gilda Radner: In Her Own Words — unrated S03E28 Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World — unrated S03E29 Mike Tyson: Fallen Champ — unrated S03E30 Michelangelo: Artist and Man — unrated S03E31 Edgar Allan Poe: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe — unrated S03E32 Cleopatra: Destiny's Queen — unrated S03E33 Van Cliburn: Concert Pianist — unrated S03E34 Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey — unrated S03E35 FDR: The War Years — unrated S03E36 Hirohito — unrated S03E37 Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso — unrated S03E38 Santa Claus — unrated S03E39 Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop — unrated S03E40 Stooges: The Men Behind the Mayhem — unrated S03E41 FDR: Years of Crisis — unrated S03E42 Andrew Carnegie: Prince of Steel — unrated S03E43 Andrew Jackson: A Man for the People — 10.0 S03E43 10.0 S03E44 Aristotle Onassis: The Golden Greek — unrated S03E45 Attila: Scourge of God — unrated S03E46 Benedict Arnold: Triumph and Treason — unrated S03E47 Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius — unrated S03E48 Charles Manson: Journey into Evil — unrated S03E49 Charlton Heston: For All Seasons — unrated S03E50 Christopher Columbus: Explorer of the New World — unrated S03E51 Crazy Horse: The Last Warrior — unrated S03E52 Daniel Boone — unrated S03E53 Genghis Khan: Terror and Conquest — unrated S03E54 George Custer: Showdown at the Little Bighorn — unrated S03E55 Goebbels: Master of Propaganda — unrated S03E56 H.G. Wells: Time Traveler — unrated S03E57 Hercules: Power of the Gods — unrated S03E58 Huey Long: The Kingfish — unrated S03E59 Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death — unrated S03E60 John Dillinger: Public Enemy #1 — unrated S03E61 John Wilkes Booth: Assassin in the Spotlight — unrated S03E62 Lee Harvey Oswald: An American Tragedy — unrated S03E63 Leif Ericson: Voyages of a Viking — unrated S03E64 Malcolm X: A Search for Identity — unrated S03E65 Marco Polo: Journey to the East — unrated S03E66 Mozart — unrated S03E67 Nostradamus: Prophet of Doom — unrated S03E68 Patrick Henry: Voice of Liberty — unrated S03E69 Ponce de León: The First Conquistador — unrated S03E70 Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective — unrated S03E71 Sitting Bull: Chief of the Lakota Nation — unrated S03E72 Susan B. Anthony: Rebel for the Cause — unrated S03E73 The Gettys: A Tragedy of Riches — unrated S03E74 The James Gang: Outlaw Brothers — unrated S03E75 The Red Baron: Master of the Air — unrated S03E76 The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty — unrated S03E77 Theodore Roosevelt: Roughrider to Rushmore — unrated S03E78 Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom — unrated S03E79 Tokyo Rose: Victim of Propaganda — unrated S03E80 Wild Bill Hickock: Gentleman of the Old West — unrated S03E81 Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier of Peace — unrated S04E56 Leif Ericson: Voyages Of A Viking — unrated S04E57 Marco Polo: Journey to the East — unrated S05E01 Abbott and Costello — unrated S05E02 Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union — unrated S05E03 Adam & Eve: Lost Innocence — unrated S05E04 Admiral Chester Nimitz: Thunder of the Pacific — unrated S05E05 Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler — unrated S05E06 Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention — unrated S05E07 Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler — 10.0 S05E07 10.0 S05E08 Annie Oakley: Crack Shot in Petticoats — unrated S05E09 Audie Murphy: Great American Hero — unrated S05E10 Confucius: Words of Wisdom — unrated S05E11 Conrad Hilton: Innkeeper to the World — unrated S05E12 David and Goliath: A Biblical Battle — unrated S05E13 Edward VIII: The Traitor King — unrated S05E14 Evita: The Woman Behind the Myth — unrated S05E15 Fidel Castro: El Comandante — unrated S05E16 Hatfields & McCoys: An American Feud — unrated S05E17 Henry VIII: Scandals of a King — unrated S05E18 Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within — unrated S05E19 John F. Kennedy Jr.: Child of a Dream — unrated S05E20 John Paul Jones: Captain of the High Seas — unrated S05E21 Marie Antoinette: The Tragic Queen — unrated S05E22 Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World — unrated S05E23 Moses and the Ten Commandments — unrated S05E24 Moshe Dayan: A Warrior's Story — unrated S05E25 Noah and the Ark: Voyage to a New Beginning — unrated S05E26 Richard Nixon: Man and President — unrated S05E27 Saddam Hussein — unrated S05E28 Saint Patrick: Man, Myth & Magic — unrated S05E29 The Astors: High Society — unrated S05E30 The Fabulous World of Fabergé — unrated S05E31 The Hunchback of Notre Dame — unrated S05E32 William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama — unrated S06E01 Anastasia: Her True Story — unrated S06E02 Andy Griffith: Hollywood's Homespun Hero — unrated S06E03 Augustus: First of the Emperors — unrated S06E04 Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror — unrated S06E05 Caligula: Reign of Madness — unrated S06E06 Charles Kuralt: A Life on the Road — unrated S06E07 Constantine: The Christian Emperor — unrated S06E08 David Copperfield: Master of Illusion — unrated S06E09 Diana: The People's Princess — unrated S06E10 Dow and Jones: Wizards of Wall Street — unrated S06E11 Dutch Schultz: Menace to Society — unrated S06E12 Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Psychic — unrated S06E13 Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America — unrated S06E14 Eliot Ness: Untouchable — unrated S06E15 Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen — unrated S06E16 Elizabeth: The Reluctant Monarch — unrated S06E17 Erwin Rommel: The Last Knight — unrated S06E18 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer — unrated S06E19 Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Mob — unrated S06E20 General George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman — unrated S06E21 George Armstrong Custer: America's Golden Cavalier — unrated S06E22 Hadrian: Emperor of the Golden Age — unrated S06E23 Ivan the Terrible: Might and Madness — unrated S06E24 J.C. Penney: Main Street Millionaire — unrated S06E25 JFK: A Personal Story — unrated S06E26 Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life — unrated S06E27 Joseph Kennedy: Father of an American Dynasty — unrated S06E28 Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World — unrated S06E29 Justinian: The Last of the Romans — unrated S06E30 Katharine Graham: Pillar of the Post — unrated S06E31 Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master — unrated S06E32 Lucrezia Borgia: Pretty Poison — unrated S06E33 Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Man and the Dream — unrated S06E34 Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon — unrated S06E35 Mother Teresa: A Life of Devotion — unrated S06E36 Nancy Reagan: The President's Leading Lady — unrated S06E37 Neiman Marcus: Last of the Merchant Kings — unrated S06E38 Nelson Rockefeller: Passionate Millionaire — unrated S06E39 Nero: The Power and the Madness — unrated S06E40 Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero — unrated S06E41 R.H. Macy: Merchant Prince — unrated S06E42 Sam Giancana — unrated S06E43 Sam Walton: Bargain Billionaire — unrated S06E44 Samuel Bronfman: Whiskey Man — unrated S06E45 Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind — unrated S06E46 Stanley & Livingstone: The Mercenary and the Missionary — unrated S06E47 The Gambinos: First Family of Crime — unrated S06E48 The Marshall Fields: A Chicago Tradition — unrated S06E49 The Woolworths: Five-and-Dime Fortune and Failure — unrated S06E50 Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All — unrated S06E51 Vladimir Lenin: Voice of the Revolution — unrated S07E01 David Berkowitz: Son of Sam — unrated S07E02 Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor — unrated S07E03 Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air — unrated S07E04 Angela Lansbury: A Balancing Act — unrated S07E05 Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl — unrated S07E06 Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury — unrated S07E07 Colonel Sanders: America's Chicken King — unrated S07E08 Dwight D. Eisenhower: Commander-in-Chief — unrated S07E09 Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling With Life — unrated S07E10 Evel Knievel: Hell on Wheels — unrated S07E11 Howard Carter: Triumph and Treasure — unrated S07E12 Jackie Kennedy Onassis: In a Class of Her Own — unrated S07E13 Jim Jones: Journey into Madness — unrated S07E14 John Wayne: American Legend — unrated S07E15 P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth — unrated S07E16 Ray Kroc: Fast Food McMillionaire — unrated S07E17 Satan: Prince of Darkness — unrated S07E18 Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius — unrated S07E19 Charles Lindbergh: Against the Wind — unrated S07E20 Fred Gwynne: More than a Munster — unrated S07E21 John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise — unrated S07E22 Nicolae Ceausescu: The Unrepentant Tyrant — unrated S07E23 The Tiffanys: Mark of Excellence — unrated S07E44 Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody — unrated S07E63 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — unrated S07E67 Nostradamus: Prophet of Doom — 6.0 S07E67 6.0 S09E02 Julia Child: An Appetite for Life — unrated S09E25 Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero — unrated S10E01 Larry Flynt: Fighting Dirty — unrated S10E02 Al Lewis: Forever Grandpa — unrated S10E03 Jimmy Hoffa: The Man Behind the Mystery — unrated S10E04 John J. Pershing: The Iron General — unrated S10E05 John Steinbeck: An American Writer — unrated S10E06 Mary Magdalene: The Hidden Apostle — unrated S10E07 Pol Pot: Secret Killer — unrated S10E08 Sally Hemings: Redefining History — unrated S10E09 Stonewall Jackson — unrated S10E10 Yvonne De Carlo: Gilded Lily — unrated S10E11 Enzo Ferrari: Passion for Speed — unrated S10E12 Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family (The Mafia - Disc 3) — unrated S10E13 George Lucas: Creating an Empire — unrated S10E14 Henry Hill: Goodfella — unrated S10E15 Calamity Jane — unrated S10E16 Donald Rumsfeld: Top Gun — unrated S10E17 General George Patton: A Genius for War — unrated S10E18 Hitler and Stalin: Roots of Evil — unrated S10E19 Home Improvement: A Half-Hour of Power — unrated S10E20 John & Abigail Adams: Love and Liberty — unrated S10E21 Joseph Stalin: Red Terror — unrated S10E22 Lewis & Clark: Explorers of the New Frontier — unrated S10E23 Mahatma Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace — unrated S10E24 Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventures — unrated S10E25 Osama Bin Laden: In the Name of Allah — unrated S10E26 Pablo Escobar: The Terror of Columbia — unrated S10E27 RFK: His Many Sides — unrated S10E28 Ronald Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime — unrated S10E29 The Extraordinary Voyages of Jules Verne — unrated S10E30 The Manson Women: An American Nightmare — unrated S10E31 Saturday Night Live — unrated S11E01 Drew Barrymore: Beating the Odds — unrated S11E10 Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait — unrated S12E25 Bob Dylan: The American Troubadour — unrated S12E32 Robert Redford: Hollywood Outlaw — unrated S12E33 Che Guevera: Restless Revolutionary — unrated S13E05 John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise — unrated S13E39 Bob Barker — unrated S14E02 Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain — unrated S18E09 Arnold Schwarzenegger — 9.5 S18E09 9.5 S18E10 Eva Braun: Love & Death — unrated S18E18 Aileen Wuornos — unrated S18E19 All the Presidents' Kids — unrated S18E20 Edith Hahn Beer: The Nazi Officer's Wife — unrated S18E21 Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor — unrated S18E22 Harrison Ford: The Reluctant Hero — unrated S18E23 John McCain: American Maverick — unrated S18E24 Kim Jong Il — unrated S18E25 Louis XIV: The Sun King — unrated S18E26 Sears — unrated S18E27 Ted Kaczynski: The Unabomber — unrated S18E28 The Munsters: America's First Family of Fright — unrated S18E29 The Post-Impressionists: Van Gogh & Gauguin — unrated S18E30 The Saudi Royal Family — unrated S18E31 Ariel Sharon — unrated S18E32 Bram Stoker — unrated S18E33 Doc Holliday — unrated S18E34 Harley-Davidson — unrated S18E35 Harold Shipman — unrated S18E36 Jesus: His Life — unrated S18E37 Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior — unrated S18E38 Lord Byron — unrated S18E39 Pat Tillman — unrated S18E40 Ringling Brothers — unrated S18E41 Sir Isaac Newton: The Gravity of Genius — unrated S18E42 St. Francis of Assisi — unrated S18E43 The Google Boys — unrated S18E44 Batman — unrated S19E01 Bram Stoker — unrated S19E18 Lawrence of Arabia — unrated S20E01 Chuck Norris — unrated S20E02 General Douglas MacArthur: The Return of a Legend — unrated S20E03 Albert Einstein — unrated S20E04 Ben & Jerry's — unrated S20E05 Bill Clinton: Hope, Charisma & Controversy — unrated S20E06 Catherine the Great — unrated S20E07 Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice — unrated S20E08 J. Pierpont Morgan: Emperor of Wall Street — unrated S20E09 Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare — unrated S20E10 Peter — unrated S20E11 Peter the Great: The Tyrant Reformer — unrated S20E12 Pocahontas: Ambassador of the New World — unrated S20E13 Pontius Pilate — unrated S20E14 Rasputin: The Mad Monk — unrated S20E15 Saint Paul — unrated S20E16 Solomon — unrated S20E17 The Hiltons — unrated S20E18 The Kellogg Brothers: Corn Flake Kings — unrated S20E19 William Shatner: Captain's Log — unrated S20E20 Al Qaeda — unrated S20E21 Frank Serpico: Honor Bound — unrated S20E22 Gerald R. Ford: Healing the Presidency — unrated S20E23 Jane Austen — unrated S20E24 The Brontë Sisters — unrated S20E25 The Home Depot — unrated S20E26 Thomas Edison: Father of Invention — unrated S20E27 Woodrow Wilson: Reluctant Warrior — unrated S20E28 Howard Schultz and Starbucks — unrated S20E29 Solomon and Sheba: An Epic Love Story — unrated S20E30 Weird Al Yankovic — unrated S20E31 Bill Gates: The Sultan of Software — unrated S20E32 Caroline Kennedy: The Next Generation — unrated S20E33 David Ben-Gurion — unrated S20E34 Ian Fleming — unrated S20E35 Lucky: The Story of Charles Lindbergh — unrated S20E36 Ted Kennedy: Tragedy, Scandal, and Redemption — unrated S20E37 The Apostles — unrated S20E38 The Harry Potter Kids — unrated S20E39 Barack Obama — unrated S20E40 George Washington: American Revolutionary — unrated S20E41 Wall Street — unrated S20E42 Jeff Dunham: Birth of a Dummy — unrated S20E43 Kate Middleton: Uncommon Bride — unrated S20E44 Pippa Middleton: Her Life — unrated S20E45 Under 21 and Filthy Rich — unrated AVG 9.7 RATING SCALE 5.5 7.5 9.5 LOWEST RATED HIGHEST RATED Episode ratings grid for Biography: 7 rated episodes across 16 seasons, ratings 6.0–10.0. Peak: S01E11 Bonnie & Clyde: The Story of Love & Death, 10.0.