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Overview:
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
Episode 1:
HOPPER: An American Love Story
Episode 2:
Moynihan
Episode 3:
The Incomparable Mr. Buckley
Episode 4:
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
Episode 1:
Roberta Flack
Episode 2:
Dr. Tony Fauci
Episode 3:
In the Making
Episode 4:
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Episode 6:
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Episode 7:
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Episode 8:
A Song for Cesar
Episode 9:
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Episode 1:
Ailey
Episode 3:
Waterman – Duke: Ambassador of Aloha
Episode 4:
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Episode 5:
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
Episode 6:
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
Episode 7:
The Adventures of Saul Bellow
Episode 8:
Groucho & Cavett
Episode 1:
How It Feels To Be Free
Episode 2:
Flannery
Episode 3:
Twyla Moves
Episode 4:
Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
Episode 5:
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Episode 6:
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Episode 7:
Ballerina Boys
Episode 8:
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
Episode 10:
Becoming Helen Keller
Episode 1:
Miles Davis Birth of the Cool
Episode 2:
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Episode 3:
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Episode 4:
Unladylike2020: The Changemakers
Episode 5:
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Episode 6:
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Episode 7:
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Episode 8:
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Episode 1:
Decoding Watson
Episode 2:
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Episode 3:
Charley Pride
Episode 4:
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
Episode 5:
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice Of The People
Episode 7:
Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
Episode 8:
Robert Shaw -- Man of Many Voices
Episode 9:
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Episode 10:
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Episode 11:
Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
Episode 12:
N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear
Episode 2:
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Episode 4:
Artists Flight: Eva Hesse
Episode 6:
Andrew Wyeth
Episode 7:
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Episode 8:
Itzhak Perlman
Episode 1:
By Sidney Lumet
Episode 2:
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Episode 3:
Patsy Cline
Episode 4:
James Beard: America’s First Foodie
Episode 5:
Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft
Episode 6:
Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny
Episode 7:
Tyrus
Episode 8:
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Episode 9:
Inspiring Woman Web Series
Episode 10:
This is Bob Hope
Episode 1:
Mike Nichols
Episode 2:
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Episode 3:
Carole King: Natural Woman
Episode 4:
Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
Episode 5:
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
Episode 6:
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Episode 7:
The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
Episode 8:
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Episode 1:
Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice
Episode 2:
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Episode 3:
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Episode 4:
American Ballet Theatre: A History
Episode 5:
Harper Lee
Episode 6:
Althea
Episode 7:
Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey
Episode 8:
The Women's List
Episode 1:
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love
Episode 2:
Salinger
Episode 3:
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Episode 4:
A Fierce Green Fire
Episode 6:
Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
Episode 7:
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Episode 8:
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Episode 9:
The Boomer List
Episode 10:
Bing Crosby Rediscovered
Episode 2:
Philip Roth: Unmasked
Episode 3:
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Episode 4:
Billie Jean King
Episode 5:
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Episode 1:
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Episode 2:
Cab Calloway: Sketches
Episode 3:
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
Episode 4:
Harper Lee: Hey, Boo
Episode 5:
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
Episode 6:
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Episode 7:
Inventing David Geffen
Episode 8:
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
Episode 1:
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Episode 3:
John Muir in the New World
Episode 4:
James Levine: America's Maestro
Episode 5:
Pearl Jam Twenty
Episode 6:
Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
Episode 7:
Woody Allen: A Documentary (1)
Episode 8:
Woody Allen: A Documentary (2)
Episode 1:
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
Episode 2:
I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
Episode 3:
The Doors: When You're Strange
Episode 4:
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
Episode 5:
Cachao: Uno Más
Episode 6:
A Letter to Elia
Episode 7:
Lennon NYC
Episode 8:
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Episode 1:
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
Episode 2:
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Episode 3:
Hollywood Chinese
Episode 4:
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Episode 6:
Trumbo
Episode 7:
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Episode 1:
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Episode 2:
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Episode 3:
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
Episode 9:
The Brothers Warner
Episode 1:
Novel Reflections on the American Dream
Episode 2:
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
Episode 3:
Les Paul: Chasing Sound
Episode 4:
David Hockney: The Colors of Music
Episode 5:
John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature
Episode 6:
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Episode 7:
Orozco: Man of Fire
Episode 8:
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
Episode 9:
Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
Episode 2:
The World of Nat King Cole
Episode 3:
Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Episode 4:
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Episode 5:
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
Episode 6:
Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 1)
Episode 7:
Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 2)
Episode 8:
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Episode 9:
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Episode 1:
James Dean: Sense Memories
Episode 2:
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
Episode 3:
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Episode 4:
Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
Episode 5:
Willa Cather: The Road is All
Episode 6:
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
Episode 7:
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (1)
Episode 8:
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (2)
Episode 1:
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
Episode 2:
James Brown: Soul Survivor
Episode 3:
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Episode 4:
Balanchine
Episode 5:
Judy Garland: By Myself
Episode 7:
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
Episode 8:
Julia! America's Favorite Chef
Episode 1:
Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving
Episode 2:
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Episode 3:
Juilliard
Episode 4:
Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution
Episode 5:
Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
Episode 6:
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
Episode 7:
Robert Capa: In Love and War
Episode 8:
The Education of Gore Vidal
Episode 1:
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Episode 2:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
Episode 3:
Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds
Episode 4:
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Episode 6:
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Episode 7:
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Episode 8:
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Episode 1:
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Episode 2:
Mailer On Mailer
Episode 3:
On Cukor
Episode 4:
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Episode 5:
Bob Marley: Rebel Music
Episode 6:
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Episode 7:
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
Episode 1:
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Episode 2:
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
Episode 3:
Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
Episode 4:
Paul Taylor: Dancemaker
Episode 5:
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Episode 6:
Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
Episode 1:
Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
Episode 2:
The Line King: Al Hirschfeld
Episode 3:
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Episode 4:
Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
Episode 5:
The Lives of Lillian Hellman
Episode 6:
Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer
Episode 7:
Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
Episode 1:
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Episode 2:
Vaudeville
Episode 3:
Billy Wilder: the Human Comedy
Episode 4:
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
Episode 5:
Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes
Episode 6:
Alexander Calder
Episode 1:
Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice
Episode 2:
Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter
Episode 3:
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
Episode 4:
Jack Paar: As I Was Saying
Episode 5:
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
Episode 1:
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Episode 2:
William Styron: The Way of the Writer
Episode 3:
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
Episode 4:
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
Episode 5:
Nichols and May: Take Two
Episode 1:
Rediscovering Will Rogers
Episode 3:
Placido Domingo: A Musical Life
Episode 4:
Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
Episode 2:
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Episode 1:
Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
Episode 2:
George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic
Episode 3:
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
Episode 3:
A. Einstein: How I See the World
Episode 4:
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
Episode 5:
Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
Episode 6:
Menuhin: A Family Portrait
Episode 7:
Robert Motherwell and the New York School
Episode 8:
Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
Episode 9:
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Episode 2:
John Cassavetes
Episode 3:
Martin Scorsese Directs
Episode 4:
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Episode 5:
Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter
Episode 1:
Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
Episode 2:
Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
Episode 3:
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
Episode 4:
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Episode 6:
Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
Episode 7:
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Episode 8:
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
Episode 9:
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Episode 10:
Milos Forman: Portrait
Episode 1:
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Episode 2:
A Duke Named Ellington
Episode 3:
Andre Kertesz of the Cities
Episode 4:
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
Episode 5:
Rivera in America
Episode 6:
Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl
Episode 7:
Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs
Episode 2:
Directed by William Wyler
Episode 3:
Rubinstein Remembered
Episode 4:
Nik and Murray
Episode 5:
George Gershwin Remembered
Episode 6:
Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa
Episode 7:
The Negro Ensemble Company
Episode 10:
Buster Keaton: Hard Act to Follow
Episode 2:
Philip Johnson, Self Portrait
Episode 3:
Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
Episode 4:
The Unknown Chaplin (1)
Episode 5:
The Unknown Chaplin (2)
Episode 6:
The Unknown Chaplin (3)
Episode 7:
Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
Episode 8:
James Levine: A Life in Music
Episode 9:
Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait
Episode 10:
Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
Episode 11:
Georgia O'Keeffe
Episode 12:
Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
Episode 1:
