Encourages students to weigh the heroic value of such attributes as rebelliousness, endurance, and risk-taking. Features segments on astronauts, outcasts, and revolutionaries.

As seen on the television program: Assignment Discovery.

Great books: The right stuff --(4:43) -- The original gangs of New York / An ABC News Production for The Discovery Channel -- (31:51) -- Australia's criminal past -- (4:25) -- Great books: Les misérables -- (6:41).