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Story of a People. TV Mini Series. 1993–2002. YOUR RATING. Rate. Documentary. Add a plot in your language. Stars. Suzzanne Douglas. Louis Gossett Jr. Dorian Gregory. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Photos 10. Top cast. Suzzanne Douglas. Host. Louis Gossett Jr. Host. Dorian Gregory. Host. M.C. Hammer. Host. April Malina. Self.
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Jan 27, 2024 · 1. Sylvester Stallone. 2. Oprah Winfrey. 3. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 4. JK Rowling. 5. Steven Spielberg. 6. Mary Kay Ash. 7. Cristiano Ronaldo. 8. Lionel Messi. 9. Michael Jordan. 10. Paulo Coelho. 11. Abraham Lincoln. 12. Tom Brady. 13. Sarah Blakely. 14. Grant Cardone.
- Sylvester Stallone
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- JK Rowling
- Steven Spielberg
- Chris Pratt
- Sylvester Stallone
- Oprah Winfrey
- Jim Carrey
- J.K. Rowling
- Katy Perry
- Thomas Edison
- Henry Ford
- Beyoncé
Before releasing the 1975 classic, Jaws, Steven Spielberg was rejected multiple times from USC’s School of Cinematic Hearts.If he hadn’t taken those early failures to heart, we may never have had E.T., Indiana Jones, or Jurassic Park to thank him for.
Actor Chris Pratt was homeless and living in a van in Hawaii when he was nineteen before he finally made it onto the big screen.His first movie only paid him $700. Twenty years of hard work later, Pratt was paid $10 million to film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Rocky star and writer, Sylvester Stallone was so poor at one point that he had to sell his dog for $40 just to buy food. After receiving two Oscar bids for his script and performance in Rocky, he was able to buy the dog back from the new owner for $15,000!
Probably having one of the most famous success stories, Oprah was born into deep poverty in Mississippi, raised by a single mother living on welfare. She was physically, mentally, and sexually abused during her childhood. One thing not many people know about her is that she ran away from home and got pregnant when she was only fourteen-years-old.Sh...
Jim Carrey is one of the funniest people on the planet. He has been the star of some of the most successful movies of all time. But Carrey grew up extremely poor in Canada. When he was a teenager, his family worked as janitors at a school to help pay the bills. And during his first stand-up comedy performance, he was booed off the stage. Not shortl...
Before writing one of the most successful book series in modern history, J.K. Rowling was broke, living on welfare, and supporting a child on her own. It took her seven years to write the first Harry Potter novel, and even then, all twelve major publishing houses at that time rejected the book.
Before dancing on stage with the infamous “Left Shark” at the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIX, Katy Perry’s long journey was filled with failures. Her first record label went out of business after her first album sold only two hundred copies. After two more labels dropped her, it took Katy Perry over ten years of hard work before she finally had a...
Thomas Edison is not only the most famous inventor (of the phonograph, the movie camera, alkaline storage batteries, etc.) you know, given his well-known success story, but you also probably know him as a famous failure. In elementary school, we were all taught that Thomas Edison failed over 10,000 times when attempting to invent a commercially-via...
The success story of Henry Ford is one that is also well-known. Henry Ford, as you all know, is the father of the automobile and creator of the assembly line. He helped bring transportation to the masses in America with his Ford Model T car. But what you may not know was that his first company went bankrupt. Even his second company also went bankru...
Before Destiny’s Child, Beyonce was in a group called Girl’s Tyme. When Beyonce was just nine years old, the group appeared on the show Star Search and lost. That group went on to become Destiny’s Child. But it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. They had internal struggles and of the original six members of Girl’s Tyme, only two remained in Destiny’...
Story of a People. 1998. Documentary. Watchlist. Celebrity hosts offer comprehensive profiles of leading African-Americans. Streaming. Airings. Loading. Please wait... See All. Find out how to...
May 22, 2018 · BBC Culture’s Stories that Shaped the World series looks at epic poems, plays and novels from around the globe that have influenced history and changed mindsets. The poll of writers and critics ...
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Oct 31, 2018 · Mythology (from the Greek mythos for story-of-the-people, and logos for word or speech, so the spoken story of a people) is the study and interpretation of often sacred tales or fables of a culture known as myths or the collection of such stories which deal with various aspects of the human condition: good and evil; the meaning of suffering; hum...
