The rag-to-riches story of the silent film star Rudolph Valentino, who moved from Italy in 1913 when he was 18, and whose big break came in 1920, when he first played a Latin lover in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His tragic death at the age of 31 caused riots at the funeral home when fans charged police to see his body.

This profile of Giacomo Casanova, the legendary Venetian king of sexual seduction, also reveals his many other skills--adventurer, autobiographer, diplomat, writer, swindler, and spy.

She is the queen of romantic fiction, but parts of her real-life story could have been made into a movie. She had a lonely childhood, multiple miscarriages, marriages to not one but two convicted felons - one of which she met and married in prison, and she tragically lost her son to suicide. Her professional story, though, has been one of unprecedented success. From an education in New York and Europe and a background in public relations and advertising, Ms. Steel turned to writing in the early `70s. She wrote her first book at twenty; her fourth was a bestseller, and she has been a fixture on bestseller lists ever since.

The poet T. S. Eliot’s unhappiness for much of his life is set against the happiness and mutual love he found with his much younger second wife, Valerie. This documentary special reveals the contrast between a previously unhappy man with his deeply fulfilling love for Valerie Eliot. Many years after his death, and an unexpected result of the marriage, was the creation of one of the most successful musicals of all time–Cats.

A fresh look at the Depression-era bank robbers, killers, and lovers. Their uncanny ability to escape police and Bonnie's poetry, published in newspapers, made them popular anti-heroes. Features interviews with Marie Barrow, Clyde's sister, and experts on their lives.

Everyone loves a sweet and sometimes unexpected celebrity love story. But the juicy, cat fighting, name-calling breakups? Now those are the headline-making, real-life dramas people just can't get enough of. From the volatile splits that were just a matter of time, to the cheating scandals that rocked Hollywood, we're counting down the ten most explosive and expensive breakups of the past decade.

This two-hour special peeks behind the centerfolds and reveals just how Hugh M. Hefner's men's magazine became a worldwide empire. But more than that, it makes the case for how Playboy challenged social conventions about men, women, sex, and nudity.