Hero bus driver coaxes woman from edge of bridge

Hero bus driver coaxes woman from edge of bridge

Oct. 31: Bus driver Darnell Barton is being hailed as a hero for helping a woman who was standing outside the railing of an...

JP Morgan goes from hero to villain

JP Morgan goes from hero to villain

Nov. 14: JP Morgan seemed to emerge from the financial crisis stronger than ever but since then it’s gone from hero to vi...

2013 Bests: Turkish game show and SF’s hero

2013 Bests: Turkish game show and SF’s hero

Dec. 26: Rachel Maddow revisits 2013's Best New Things in the World, recalling a Turkish game show host speaking truth to p...

Was Christie the Hurricane Hero?

Was Christie the Hurricane Hero?

Oct. 29: Chris Hayes talks with Adam Gordon and Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., about Chris Christie's response to Superstorm Sandy...

Honoring a civil rights hero

Honoring a civil rights hero

Sept. 12: Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the passing of Demetrius Newton, a legendary civil rights attorney who helped bend the arc of t...

Right wing rejects Mandela's hero status

Right wing rejects Mandela's hero status

Dec. 10: Rachel Maddow reviews the history of conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Dick Cheney who sided with South Africa'...

Zac Efron: Seth Rogen ‘is a hero in my eyes’

Zac Efron: Seth Rogen ‘is a hero in my eyes’

May 5: Actors Zac Efron and Dave Franco join TODAY to chat about playing annoying frat brothers in the new movie “Neighbors,” and ...

Hero cat’s family tells how she took on dog

Hero cat’s family tells how she took on dog

May 15: The parents of a California boy who was saved from an attacking dog by the family cat tell TODAY about the remarkable rescue, ...

Jolie: New film is ‘hardest thing I’ve ever done’

Jolie: New film is ‘hardest thing I’ve ever done’

Feb. 25: Angelina Jolie speaks exclusively to NBC’s Tom Brokaw about directing “Unbroken,” a film that profiles World...

John Lewis remembers the March on Washington

John Lewis remembers the March on Washington

Aug. 23: Former civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis joins Rev. Sharpton for a tour of the National Mall to talk about his mem...

Senate shuts down Ted Cruz

Senate shuts down Ted Cruz

Sept. 23: Both Democratic and Republican senators attacked the attempt by Tea Party hero Senator Ted Cruz to defund Obamacare, or else...

Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013

Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013

Dec. 5: A moral titan, a hero for the ages, one of the greatest men of our time, is dead.  Nelson Mandela passed away toda...

Budget deal reaction

Budget deal reaction

Dec. 11: One time conservative hero Rep. Paul Ryan calls the conservative attacks on the budget deal a "strange new normal....

Inside Prince Harry’s South Pole trek

Inside Prince Harry’s South Pole trek

March 26: NBC gets an exclusive look inside Prince Harry’s Antarctica trek last year alongside brave wounded warriors, including fou...

Why many in the GOP love this Nevada rancher

Why many in the GOP love this Nevada rancher

April 14: Chris Hayes looks at how many in the Republican party have elevated Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to hero status.   

Man leads blind colleague from Navy Yard shooting

Man leads blind colleague from Navy Yard shooting

Sept. 17: A viral photo shows Omar Grant leading a blind colleague to safety during an evacuation from their building during the Washi...

Mom in Kenya siege: I was separated from my boys

Mom in Kenya siege: I was separated from my boys

Sept. 30: Katherine Walton, an American mother of five, was shopping at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, when the four-day siege b...

Dog saves blind owner after fall onto subway tracks

Dog saves blind owner after fall onto subway tracks

Dec. 18: A heroic guide dog named Orlando is getting praise for saving his owner, a blind man named Cecil Williams, who fel...