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American Masters
First Air Date: 1986-06-23
Seasons: 39
Episodes: 305
Rating: 7.429/10
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.
Genres: Documentary
📺 Seasons
Episode 1: Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'
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: Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
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 8: Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote
Episode 9: The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Episode 10: Buster Keaton: Hard Act to Follow
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 8: Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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 5: Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
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: Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
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 6: John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
Episode 7: Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Episode 8: John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
Episode 1: Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre
Episode 2: Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio
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 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: 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 7: The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
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 8: Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
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 5: Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records
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: 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: 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 6: Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire
Episode 7: Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
Episode 8: Julia! America's Favorite Chef
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: John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
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: 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 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 4: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935)
Episode 5: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)
Episode 6: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970)
Episode 7: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989)
Episode 8: You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present)
Episode 9: The Brothers Warner
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 5: Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
Episode 6: Trumbo
Episode 7: Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Episode 8: Louisa May Alcott: the Woman Behind 'Little Women'
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: Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Episode 2: Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
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 9: Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
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: Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love
Episode 2: Salinger
Episode 3: Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Episode 4: A Fierce Green Fire
Episode 5: Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
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 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: 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 9: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
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: Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
Episode 2: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Episode 3: Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived”
Episode 4: Artists Flight: Eva Hesse
Episode 5: Artists Flight: Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray
Episode 6: Andrew Wyeth
Episode 7: Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Episode 8: Itzhak Perlman
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 6: Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
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 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: 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 9: Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Episode 10: Becoming Helen Keller
Episode 1: Ailey
Episode 2: Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
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: Roberta Flack
Episode 2: Dr. Tony Fauci
Episode 3: In the Making
Episode 4: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Episode 5: Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
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