American Masters (1986)

Now in its 30th year, American Masters has produced an exceptional library of more than 160 television programs, bringing unique originality and perspective to exploring the lives and illuminating the creative journeys of our most enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists and filmmakers – those who have "left an indelible impression on our cultural landscape". Balancing a broad cast of characters and artistic approaches, while preserving historical authenticity and intellectual integrity, these portraits resonate the attention, style and substance each subject deserves. American Masters sustains high audience awareness and loyalty, averaging 2-to-5 million viewers per program.		Running Currently 68.0/5 (5 votes) Add to Library
Ratings:	TVMaze: 7.5/10
Released:	June 23, 1986
Runtime:	90 min
Genres:	Music
Countries:	United States
Companies:	PBS Eagle Rock Entertainment Thirteen
Crew:	Susan Lacy
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E1 - Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me - 1988-07-11 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - A Duke Named Ellington - 1988-07-18 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Andre Kertesz of the Cities - 1988-08-08 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul - 1988-08-22 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Rivera in America - 1988-08-29 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl - 1988-09-05 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs - 1989-03-08 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of Group Theater - 1989-06-26 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer - 1990-07-02 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - John Cassavetes - 1990-07-09 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Martin Scorsese Directs - 1990-07-16 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story - 1990-07-23 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter - 1990-07-30 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen - 1990-08-20 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Sanford Meisner: The Theater's Best Kept Secret - 1990-08-27 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It - 1990-09-17 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre - 1991-07-01 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio - 1991-07-08 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - A. Einstein: How I See the World - 1991-07-22 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One - 1991-07-29 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days - 1991-08-05 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Menuhin: A Family Portrait - 1991-08-12 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Robert Motherwell and the New York School - 1991-08-26 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul - 1992-01-03 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey - 1992-05-01 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time - 1993-03-14 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic - 1993-03-17 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - D.W. Griffith: Father of Film - 1993-03-24 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing - 1993-12-08 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed - 1994-05-13 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 9 - Click for episodes

E1 - Rediscovering Will Rogers - 1994-11-30 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage - 1994-12-19 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Placido Domingo: A Musical Life - 1995-02-15 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul - 1995-03-22 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval - 1995-11-29 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - William Styron: The Way of the Writer - 1996-01-22 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light - 1996-01-24 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud - 1996-04-10 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Nichols and May: Take Two - 1996-05-22 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 11 - Click for episodes

E1 - Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice - 1996-11-25 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter - 1996-12-10 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde - 1997-04-09 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Jack Paar: As I Was Saying - 1997-05-07 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper - 1997-06-25 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 12 - Click for episodes

E1 - The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg - 1997-09-17 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Vaudeville - 1997-11-26 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy - 1998-02-04 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart - 1998-04-29 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes - 1998-05-01 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Alexander Calder - 1998-06-17 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note - 1998-10-28 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - The Line King: Al Hirschfeld - 1999-01-06 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Paul Robeson: Here I Stand - 1999-02-24 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius - 1999-04-07 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - The Lives of Lillian Hellman - 1999-06-30 [ 1 Links ]

E6 - Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer - 1999-06-30 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley - 1999-08-18 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood - 1999-11-01 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Norman Rockwell: Painting America - 1999-11-24 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For - 1999-12-08 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Paul Taylor: Dancemaker - 2000-01-05 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light - 2000-02-02 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso - 2000-04-12 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation - 2000-05-31 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows - 2000-09-27 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Mailer on Mailer - 2000-10-04 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - On Cukor - 2000-11-22 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy - 2000-12-03 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Bob Marley: Rebel Music - 2001-02-14 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - A Conversation with Gregory Peck - 2001-04-09 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye - 2001-04-16 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians - 2001-04-23 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 16 - Click for episodes

E1 - Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies - 2001-10-07 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams - 2001-10-14 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds - 2001-10-21 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Quincy Jones: In the Pocket - 2001-11-18 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records - 2001-11-28 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance - 2001-12-16 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Ralph Ellison: An American Journey - 2002-02-19 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer - 2002-03-01 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving - 2002-10-02 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces - 2002-10-30 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Juilliard - 2003-01-29 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution - 2003-03-19 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind - 2003-04-02 [ 1 Links ]

E6 - Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied - 2003-04-23 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Robert Capa: In Love and War - 2003-05-28 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - The Education of Gore Vidal - 2003-07-30 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist - 2003-09-03 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - James Brown: Soul Survivor - 2003-10-29 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Cary Grant: A Class Apart - 2004-01-07 [ 1 Links ]

E4 - Balanchine - 2004-01-14 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Judy Garland: By Myself - 2004-02-25 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire - 2004-04-28 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues - 2004-06-23 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Julia! America's Favorite Chef - 2004-08-18 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 19 - Click for episodes

E1 - James Dean: Sense Memories - 2005-05-11 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice - 2005-06-29 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey - 2005-07-13 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned - 2005-07-20 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Willa Cather: The Road is All - 2005-09-07 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea - 2005-09-14 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Bob Dylan: No Direction Home - 2005-09-27 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend - 2006-05-10 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - The World of Nat King Cole - 2006-05-17 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home - 2006-07-12 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Marilyn Monroe: Still Life - 2006-07-19 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Walter Cronkite: Witness to History - 2006-07-26 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 1 - 2006-09-20 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 2 - 2006-09-21 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Sketches of Frank Gehry - 2006-09-27 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens - 2007-01-03 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 21 - Click for episodes

E1 - Novel Reflections on the American Dream - 2007-04-04 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built - 2007-05-02 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Les Paul: Chasing Sound - 2007-07-11 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - David Hockney: The Colors of Music - 2007-07-18 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature - 2007-07-25 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends - 2007-09-12 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Orozco: Man of Fire - 2007-09-19 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Good Ol' Charles Schulz - 2007-10-29 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character - 2007-11-05 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 22 - Click for episodes

E1 - Pete Seeger: The Power of Song - 2008-02-27 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun - 2008-04-09 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Marvin Gaye: What's Going On - 2008-05-07 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935) - 2008-09-23 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950) - 2008-09-23 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970) - 2008-09-24 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989) - 2008-09-24 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present) - 2008-09-25 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - The Brothers Warner - 2008-09-25 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 23 - Click for episodes

E1 - Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About - 2009-02-18 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts - 2009-04-08 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Hollywood Chinese - 2009-05-27 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Neil Young: Don't Be Denied - 2009-06-10 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes - 2009-07-01 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Trumbo - 2009-09-02 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound - 2009-10-14 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women' - 2009-12-28 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Sam Cooke: Crossing Over - 2010-01-11 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - I.M. Pei: Building China Modern - 2010-03-31 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - The Doors: When You're Strange - 2010-05-12 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself - 2010-07-21 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Cachao: Uno Más - 2010-09-20 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - A Letter to Elia - 2010-10-04 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Lennon NYC - 2010-11-22 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould - 2010-12-27 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides - 2011-01-12 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter - 2011-03-02 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - John Muir in the New World - 2011-04-18 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - James Levine: America's Maestro - 2011-06-01 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Pearl Jam Twenty - 2011-10-21 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Bill T. Jones: A Good Man - 2011-11-11 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 1 - 2011-11-20 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 2 - 2011-11-21 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter - 2011-12-29 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 26 - Click for episodes

E1 - Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune - 2012-01-23 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Cab Calloway: Sketches - 2012-02-27 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel - 2012-04-02 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Harper Lee: Hey, Boo - 2012-04-02 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Johnny Carson: King of Late Night - 2012-05-14 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - The Day Carl Sandburg Died - 2012-09-24 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Inventing David Geffen - 2012-11-20 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance - 2012-12-28 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 27 - Click for episodes

E1 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll - 2013-02-22 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Philip Roth: Unmasked - 2013-03-29 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Mel Brooks: Make a Noise - 2013-05-20 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Billie Jean King - 2013-09-10 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' - 2013-11-05 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love - 2013-12-27 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 28 - Click for episodes

E1 - Salinger - 2014-01-21 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth - 2014-02-07 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - A Fierce Green Fire - 2014-04-22 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself - 2014-05-16 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun - 2014-06-20 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning - 2014-08-29 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - 2014-09-23 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - The Boomer List - 2014-09-23 [ 1 Links ]

E9 - Bing Crosby Rediscovered - 2014-12-02 [ 1 Links ]

► Season 29 - Click for episodes

E1 - Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice - 2015-01-23 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand - 2015-02-20 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler - 2015-04-16 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - American Ballet Theatre: A History - 2015-05-15 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Althea - 2015-09-04 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey - 2015-09-18 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - The Women's List - 2015-09-25 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 30 - Click for episodes

E1 - Mike Nichols: An American Master - 2016-01-29 [ 2 Links ]

E2 - B.B. King: The Life of Riley - 2016-02-12 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Carole King: Natural Woman - 2016-02-19 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Fats Domino: The Birth of Rock N' Roll - 2016-02-26 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl - 2016-03-04 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue - 2016-05-03 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End - 2016-05-27 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You - 2016-10-25 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future - 2016-12-27 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - 2018-01-19 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story - 2018-05-18 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived - 2018-07-23 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Eva Hesse - 2018-08-31 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray - 2018-09-07 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Andrew Wyeth - 2018-09-07 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Basquiat: Rage to Riches - 2018-09-14 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Itzhak - 2018-10-14 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool - 2020-02-25 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Mae West: Dirty Blonde - 2020-06-16 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - 2020-06-23 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - And She Could Be Next Part Two - 2020-06-30 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Unladylike2020: The Changemakers - 2020-07-10 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip - 2020-10-20 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is - 2020-10-23 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Keith Haring: Street Art Boy - 2020-12-11 [ 0 Links ]

E9 - Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page - 2020-12-29 [ 0 Links ]

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E1 - Ailey - 2022-01-11 [ 0 Links ]

E2 - Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands - 2022-02-08 [ 0 Links ]

E3 - Waterman - Duke: Ambassador of Aloha - 2022-05-10 [ 0 Links ]

E4 - Joe Papp in Five Acts - 2022-06-03 [ 0 Links ]

E5 - Brian Wilson - Long Promised Road - 2022-06-14 [ 0 Links ]

E6 - Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On - 2022-11-22 [ 0 Links ]

E7 - The Adventures of Saul Bellow - 2022-12-12 [ 0 Links ]

E8 - Groucho & Cavett - 2022-12-27 [ 0 Links ]

► Season 37 - Click for episodes

► Season 38 - Click for episodes

E1 - HOPPER: An American Love Story - 2024-01-02 [ 2 Links ]

E2 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan - 2024-03-29 [ 10 Links ]

E3 - The Incomparable Mr. Buckley - 2024-04-05 [ 27 Links ]

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