Profiles in Courage (1964)

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Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was based on the recently President John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.

IMDb rating: 8.3 (102 votes)
Episode average: 8.2 -0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1964)

8.19 avg 25 episodes 6.7 → 8.0 50 min avg

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Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Oscar W. Underwood	6.7	9
2	Mary S. McDowell	8.9	10
3	Thomas Hart Benton	7.9	10
4	Richard T. Ely	9.0	12
5	Sam Houston	8.5	15
6	Governor John M. Slaton	8.6	11
7	John Adams	7.9	10
8	Robert A. Taft	7.4	14
9	Anne Hutchinson	8.1	12
10	General Alexander William Doniphan	7.9	11
11	John Peter Altgeld	8.1	12
12	Frederick Douglass	8.7	13
13	Daniel Webster	8.3	9
14	Woodrow Wilson	8.3	10
15	Prudence Crandall	8.6	8
16	Andrew Johnson	8.4	11
17	Hamilton Fish	8.2	8
18	Charles Evans Hughes	8.0	11
19	Edmund G. Ross	8.9	14
20	George W. Norris	8.4	10
21	Grover Cleveland	8.1	11
22	John Quincy Adams	7.4	10
24	Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey	8.2	8
25	George Mason	8.3	10
26	Thomas Corwin	8.0	9