5 Minute Biographies on YouTube
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Charlton Heston
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Florence Nightingale - The Lady with the Lamp
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Oliver Reed - Hellraiser & Hollywood Star
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Gus March Phillipps
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Cleopatra: The Enigmatic Queen of Egypt
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Bing Crosby: A Melodic Journey
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Benjamin Franklin: The Key to Independence
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James Dean: A Rebels Journey
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Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson: A Maritime Legend
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Carrie Fisher: A Star Beyond the Galaxy
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Emmeline Pankhurst: The Voice of Suffrage
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Oliver Cromwell: The Ironside's Chronicle
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The King of Pop: A Michael Jackson Biography
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Greta Garbo: The Engimatic Star
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Nikola Tesla - One of the First Electrical Engineers - Inventor of A/C Power
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Winston Churchill - One of Britain's Greatest Ever Prime Ministers
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Katharine Hepburn - She Won 4 Oscars in a Career that Spanned over 60 Years
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Jacques Cousteau - Pioneer in Underwater Filming and Conservation
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Spencer Tracy - MGM's Biggest Money Maker in 1940s and 1950s Hollywood
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Niki Lauda - Three-time Formula 1 World Champion - Phoenix from the Flame?
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Lyndon B Johnson - He Became the 36th President after JFK was Assassinated
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Jimmy Stewart - The First Hollywood A-Lister to Enlist at the Start of World War 2
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Kurt Cobain - The Wild Life and Tragic Death of the Nirvana Front Man
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George Orwell - Who controls the past controls the future
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Napoleon Bonaparte - The First Emperor of France
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Music
Quincy Jones
Across more than seven decades of musical innovation, Quincy Jones has shaped the sound of…
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Royalty
Boudica
Boudica, the queen of the Iceni tribe, remains one of Britain’s most iconic historical figures, a symbol of resistance, independence,…
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Politics
Thomas More
Thomas More, born on 7 February 1478 in London, was one of the most remarkable figures of Tudor England. A…
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Royalty
Isabella I of Castille
Isabella I of Castile was born on 22 April 1451 in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, in the Kingdom of…
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U. S. Presidents
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was born on 19 November 1831 in a small log…
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U. S. Presidents
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes Biography Rutherford Birchard Hayes, the 19th President of the United States, was born on 4 October 1822…
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Entertainment
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on 20 July 1938 in San Francisco, California, United States. She became one…
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Actors
Robert Redford
When Robert Redford died in his sleep on 16 September, 2025, at the age of 89, he left behind a…
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