American Masters, which pioneered the television biography genre, continues to offer insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life.
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
December 28, 2009
at 9pm
(#2207)
The author of Little Women is an almost universally recognized name. Her ...
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
first aired:
October 14, 2009
(#2206)
In the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and ...
Trumbo
first aired:
September 2, 2009
(#2205)
Dalton Trumbo, was a successful Hollywood screenwriter who, after refusing ...
Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
first aired:
July 1, 2009
(#2204)
Lake Wobegon - where the women are strong, the men are good looking and ...
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
first aired:
June 15, 2009
(#2203)
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Hollywood Chinese
first aired:
May 27, 2009
(#2202)
From the first Chinese-American film produced in 1916, to Ang Lee's triumphant ...
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
first aired:
February 18, 2009
(#2201)
In a life that inspired controversy, no one disputes the place that Jerome ...
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
first aired:
April 8, 2009
(#2109)
Filmmaker Scott Hicks - director of the 1996 award winning feature film ...
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (Part 3)
first aired:
September 25, 2008
(#2107)
In April 1923, four brothers from Ohio officially incorporated their new ...
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (Part 2)
first aired:
September 24, 2008
(#2105)
In April 1923, four brothers from Ohio officially incorporated their new ...
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (Part 1)
first aired:
September 23, 2008
(#2103)
In April 1923, four brothers from Ohio officially incorporated their new ...
Marvin Gaye: What's Going on
first aired:
May 7, 2008
(#2102)
His standing among the most enduring 20th-century American musical artists ...
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
first aired:
February 27, 2008
(#2101)
This first authorized film poetically documents Seeger's unique experience ...
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
first aired:
April 9, 2008
(#2009)
Writer, cultural anthropologist, chronicler of folk roots and ethnic traditions, ...
Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
first aired:
November 5, 2007
(#2008)
America in the 1960s and 70s was in turmoil. The civil rights struggle, ...
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
first aired:
October 29, 2007
(#2007)
This is a quintessentially Midwestern story of an unassuming, self-doubting ...
Jose Clemente Orozco: Man of Fire
first aired:
September 19, 2007
(#2006)
Orozco's bold, dynamic frescoes had a profound impact on American painters ...
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
first aired:
September 12, 2007
(#2005)
The man Frank Sinatra called "the best singer in the business" has been ...
John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature
first aired:
July 25, 2007
(#2004)
In a dramatic, contradictory story, the man who is synonymous with the ...
David Hockney: The Colors of Music
first aired:
July 18, 2007
(#2003)
An English-born artist based in Los Angeles, David Hockney is considered ...
Les Paul: Chasing Sound
first aired:
July 11, 2007
(#2002)
To celebrate Les Paul's 92nd birthday, this profile looks back at the ...
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
first aired:
May 2, 2007
(#2001)
Ahmet Ertegun, a young Turk with an immigrant's passion for the African-American ...
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
first aired:
October 30, 2008
(#1909)
Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last ...
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
first aired:
July 23, 2009
(#1905)
Everyone knew Walter Cronkite from the CBS Evening News, where he earned ...
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
first aired:
January 30, 2008
(#1904)
There are the movie roles, but it is the still images - the iconic face, ...
The World of Nat King Cole
first aired:
June 20, 2008
(#1902)
In 2005 - 40 years after his untimely death - musical pioneer Nat King ...
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
first aired:
March 25, 2007
(#1807)
In 1883, the young Willa Cather was plucked from her luxurious home in ...
Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
first aired:
December 26, 2007
(#1806)
In the late 1950s, a shy Chicago accountant who was trying to pick up ...
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
first aired:
February 23, 2008
(#1706)
Hank Williams was a recording artist for just six years and a star for ...
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
first aired:
February 10, 2007
(#1606)
Muddy Waters, a Mississippi Delta sharecropper's son, had two choices ...
Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
first aired:
February 3, 2007
(#608)
Eight months after his death at age 73, revolutionary musician Ray Charles ...
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
first aired:
June 19, 2008
(#504)
"Night and Day," "I Get a Kick You of You," "You're the Top," "Begin the ...
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of An American
first aired:
June 18, 2008
(#501)
Preston Sturges, the creator of eight dazzling, completely distinctive ...
Rivera in America
first aired:
September 19, 2007
(#306)
Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century, Diego Rivera ...
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
first aired:
May 7, 2008
(#305)
Soul survivor Aretha Franklin is having a very good year. She sang the ...
