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  1. Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears

    7/11 A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.

  2. Henry Johnson: Hellfighter

    6/11 How did one man from the American South fight off an entire German party in World War One?

  3. Hugh Glass: The Real Story of The Revenant

    5/11 Attacked by a bear and left for dead, can Hugh Glass crawl hundreds of miles to safety?

  4. Constance Bulwer-Lytton: Suffragette Rebel

    4/11 A young suffragette, hiding a secret, goes on hunger strike.

  5. Robert Smalls: Last Chance for Freedom

    3/11 Can an enslaved man commandeer a Confederate ship and escape to freedom?

  6. Kitty O鈥橬eil: Hollywood's Real Wonder Woman

    2/11 How did a deaf woman defy the odds to become a Hollywood stuntwoman?

  7. Peter Freuchen: Surviving the Arctic Wilderness

    1/11 An arctic explorer is trapped in a snow drift. How will he escape?

  8. Trailer

    1/11 Adventurers, rebels and survivors who lived life on the edge, with Ray Winstone.