American Masters

📊 Series Specifications

Network PBS
Episode Runtime ~90 min
Total Seasons 41
Total Episodes 316
Original Language EN
Creator Susan Lacy

American Masters (1986)

Created by Susan Lacy
⭐ 3.5 / 5 (26 votes) 🎬 41 Seasons 📼 316 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary 📡 Returning Series
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Series Status:

Currently airing weekly on international broadcast networks.

Returning Series

Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episodes

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E1 Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman for television.

E2 Philip Johnson, Self Portrait

One of America's best-known architects is profiled, with emphasis on his early career and his later movement away from minimalism.

E3 Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory

A biography of the well-known social critic and author Katherine Anne Porter.

E4 The Unknown Chaplin (1)

An in-depth treatment of the life and sensibilities of the innovative silent film superstar Charlie Chaplin.

E5 The Unknown Chaplin (2)

An in-depth treatment of the life and sensibilities of the innovative silent film superstar Charlie Chaplin.

E6 The Unknown Chaplin (3)

An in-depth treatment of the life and sensibilities of the innovative silent film superstar Charlie Chaplin.

E7 Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day

A biography of Billie Holiday, one of America's most unique and emotional jazz singers and the tragic end of her life at an early age.

E8 James Levine: A Life in Music

The musical career of the long-time conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera as reflected by following his normal working day on camera.

E9 Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait

One of America's signature classical composers and the unique elements he incorporated into his pieces.

E10 Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait

The strikingly realistic and unsentimental paintings of the noted artist from Philadelphia.

E11 Georgia O'Keeffe

A profile of the noted American artist originally produced to celebrate her 90th birthday.

E12 Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
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