American Masters

American Masters (1986)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Creator: Susan Lacy
  • First Air Date: 1986-06-23
  • Last Air Date: 2024-08-28
  • Total Seasons: 39
  • Total Episodes: 297
  • Status: Returning Series
  • Episode Runtime: 90 min.
  • Production Company: Eagle Rock Entertainment
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Networks: PBS
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Summary

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.

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American Masters Seasons

Season 0

First Air Date: 1985-10-07
1 Episodes

Season 1

First Air Date: 1986-06-23
12 Episodes

Season 2

First Air Date: 1987-07-06
10 Episodes

Season 3

First Air Date: 1988-07-11
8 Episodes

Season 4

First Air Date: 1989-07-03
10 Episodes

Season 5

First Air Date: 1990-07-02
8 Episodes

Season 6

First Air Date: 1991-07-01
9 Episodes

Season 7

First Air Date: 1993-03-14
3 Episodes

Season 8

First Air Date: 1993-12-08
2 Episodes

Season 9

First Air Date: 1994-11-30
4 Episodes

Season 10

First Air Date: 1995-11-29
5 Episodes

Season 11

First Air Date: 1996-11-25
5 Episodes

Season 12

First Air Date: 1997-09-17
6 Episodes

Season 13

First Air Date: 1998-10-28
7 Episodes

Season 14

First Air Date: 1999-11-01
7 Episodes

Season 15

First Air Date: 2000-09-27
8 Episodes

Season 16

First Air Date: 2001-10-07
8 Episodes

Season 17

First Air Date: 2002-10-02
8 Episodes

Season 18

First Air Date: 2003-09-03
8 Episodes

Season 19

First Air Date: 2005-05-11
8 Episodes

Season 20

First Air Date: 2006-05-10
9 Episodes

Season 21

First Air Date: 2007-04-04
9 Episodes

Season 22

First Air Date: 2008-02-27
9 Episodes

Season 23

First Air Date: 2009-02-18
8 Episodes

Season 24

First Air Date: 2010-01-11
8 Episodes

Season 25

First Air Date: 2011-01-12
9 Episodes

Season 26

First Air Date: 2012-01-23
8 Episodes

Season 27

First Air Date: 2013-02-22
5 Episodes

Season 28

First Air Date: 2013-12-27
10 Episodes

Season 29

First Air Date: 2015-01-23
8 Episodes

Season 30

First Air Date: 2016-01-29
9 Episodes

Season 31

First Air Date: 2017-01-03
10 Episodes

Season 32

First Air Date: 2018-01-19
8 Episodes

Season 33

First Air Date: 2019-01-02
12 Episodes

Season 34

First Air Date: 2020-03-03
8 Episodes

Season 35

First Air Date: 2021-01-18
10 Episodes

Season 36

First Air Date: 2022-01-11
8 Episodes

Season 37

First Air Date: 2023-01-24
9 Episodes

Season 38

First Air Date: 2024-01-02
6 Episodes

Season 39

First Air Date: 2024-12-16
1 Episodes

American Masters Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1Arthur Miller: Private Conversations90 min
Season 1Episode 2Phillip Johnson: A Self Portrait90 min
Season 1Episode 3Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory90 min
Season 1Episode 4The Unknown Chaplin: Part 190 min
Season 1Episode 5The Unknown Chaplin: Part 290 min
Season 1Episode 6The Unknown Chaplin: Part 390 min
Season 1Episode 7Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day90 min
Season 1Episode 8James Levine: A Life in Music90 min
Season 1Episode 9Aaron Copland: About the Composer90 min
Season 1Episode 10Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait90 min
Season 1Episode 11Georgia O'Keeffe90 min
Season 1Episode 12Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts90 min
Season 2Episode 1Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer90 min
Season 2Episode 2Directed by William Wyler90 min
Season 2Episode 3Rubinstein Remembered90 min
Season 2Episode 4Nik and Murray90 min
Season 2Episode 5George Gershwin Remembered90 min
Season 2Episode 6Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa90 min
Season 2Episode 7The Negro Ensemble Company90 min
Season 2Episode 8Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote90 min
Season 2Episode 9The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch90 min
Season 2Episode 10Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow90 min
Season 2Episode 11Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (Part 2)90 min
Season 2Episode 12Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (Part 3)90 min
Season 3Episode 1Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me90 min
Season 3Episode 2A Duke Named Ellington90 min
Season 3Episode 3Andre Kertesz of the Cities90 min
Season 3Episode 4Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul90 min
Season 3Episode 5Rivera in America90 min
Season 3Episode 6Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl90 min
Season 3Episode 7Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs90 min
Season 3Episode 8Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of Group Theater90 min
Season 4Episode 1Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre90 min
Season 4Episode 2Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!90 min
Season 4Episode 3Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong90 min
Season 4Episode 4James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket90 min
Season 4Episode 5Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker90 min
Season 4Episode 6Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint90 min
Season 4Episode 7Mort Sahl: Shaping Laughter90 min
Season 4Episode 8W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult90 min
Season 4Episode 9Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius90 min
Season 4Episode 10Milos Forman: Portrait90 min
Season 5Episode 1Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer90 min
Season 5Episode 2John Cassavetes90 min
Season 5Episode 3Martin Scorsese Directs90 min
Season 5Episode 4You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story90 min
Season 5Episode 5Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter90 min
Season 5Episode 6John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen90 min
Season 5Episode 7Sanford Meisner: The Theater's Best Kept Secret90 min
Season 5Episode 8John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It90 min
Season 6Episode 1Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre90 min
Season 6Episode 2Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio90 min
Season 6Episode 3A. Einstein: How I See the World90 min
Season 6Episode 4Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One90 min
Season 6Episode 5Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days90 min
Season 6Episode 6Menuhin: A Family Portrait90 min
Season 6Episode 7Robert Motherwell and the New York School90 min
Season 6Episode 8Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul90 min
Season 6Episode 9Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol90 min
Season 6Episode 10Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey90 min
Season 7Episode 1Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time90 min
Season 7Episode 2George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic90 min
Season 7Episode 3D.W. Griffith: Father of Film90 min
Season 8Episode 1Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing90 min
Season 8Episode 2Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed90 min
Season 9Episode 1Rediscovering Will Rogers90 min
Season 9Episode 2Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage90 min
Season 9Episode 3Placido Domingo: A Musical Life90 min
Season 9Episode 4Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul90 min
Season 10Episode 1Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval90 min
Season 10Episode 2William Styron: The Way of the Writer90 min
Season 10Episode 3Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light90 min
Season 10Episode 4Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud90 min
Season 10Episode 5Nichols and May: Take Two90 min
Season 11Episode 1Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice90 min
Season 11Episode 2Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter90 min
Season 11Episode 3Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde90 min
Season 11Episode 4Jack Paar: As I Was Saying90 min
Season 11Episode 5Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper90 min
Season 12Episode 1The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg90 min
Season 12Episode 2Vaudeville90 min
Season 12Episode 3Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy90 min
Season 12Episode 4Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart90 min
Season 12Episode 5Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes90 min
Season 12Episode 6Alexander Calder90 min
Season 13Episode 1Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note90 min
Season 13Episode 2The Line King: Al Hirschfeld90 min
Season 13Episode 3Paul Robeson: Here I Stand90 min
Season 13Episode 4Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius90 min
Season 13Episode 5The Lives of Lillian Hellman90 min
Season 13Episode 6Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer90 min
Season 13Episode 7Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley90 min
Season 14Episode 1Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood90 min
Season 14Episode 2Norman Rockwell: Painting America90 min
Season 14Episode 3Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For90 min
Season 14Episode 4Paul Taylor: Dancemaker90 min
Season 14Episode 5Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light90 min
Season 14Episode 6Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso90 min
Season 14Episode 7The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation90 min
Season 15Episode 1Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows90 min
Season 15Episode 2Mailer on Mailer90 min
Season 15Episode 3On Cukor90 min
Season 15Episode 4Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy90 min
Season 15Episode 5Bob Marley: Rebel Music90 min
Season 15Episode 6A Conversation with Gregory Peck90 min
Season 15Episode 7Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye90 min
Season 15Episode 8Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians90 min
Season 16Episode 1Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies90 min
Season 16Episode 2F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams90 min
Season 16Episode 3Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds90 min
Season 16Episode 4Quincy Jones: In the Pocket90 min
Season 16Episode 5Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records90 min
Season 16Episode 6Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance90 min
Season 16Episode 7Ralph Ellison: An American Journey90 min
Season 16Episode 8Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer90 min
Season 17Episode 1Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving90 min
Season 17Episode 2Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces90 min
Season 17Episode 3Juilliard90 min
Season 17Episode 4Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution90 min
Season 17Episode 5Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind90 min
Season 17Episode 6Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied90 min
Season 17Episode 7Robert Capa: In Love and War90 min
Season 17Episode 8The Education of Gore Vidal90 min
Season 18Episode 1Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist90 min
Season 18Episode 2James Brown: Soul Survivor90 min
Season 18Episode 3Cary Grant: A Class Apart90 min
Season 18Episode 4Balanchine90 min
Season 18Episode 5Judy Garland: By Myself90 min
Season 18Episode 6Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire90 min
Season 18Episode 7Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues90 min
Season 18Episode 8Julia! America's Favorite Chef60 min
Season 19Episode 1James Dean: Sense Memories90 min
Season 19Episode 2Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice90 min
Season 19Episode 3George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey90 min
Season 19Episode 4Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned90 min
Season 19Episode 5Willa Cather: The Road is All90 min
Season 19Episode 6Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea90 min
Season 19Episode 7Bob Dylan: No Direction Home90 min
Season 20Episode 1John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend90 min
Season 20Episode 2The World of Nat King Cole90 min
Season 20Episode 3Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home90 min
Season 20Episode 4Marilyn Monroe: Still Life90 min
Season 20Episode 5Walter Cronkite: Witness to History90 min
Season 20Episode 6Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 190 min
Season 20Episode 7Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 290 min
Season 20Episode 8Sketches of Frank Gehry90 min
Season 20Episode 9Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens90 min
Season 21Episode 1Novel Reflections on the American Dream90 min
Season 21Episode 2Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built90 min
Season 21Episode 3Les Paul: Chasing Sound90 min
Season 21Episode 4David Hockney: The Colors of Music90 min
Season 21Episode 5John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature90 min
Season 21Episode 6Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends90 min
Season 21Episode 7Orozco: Man of Fire90 min
Season 21Episode 8Good Ol' Charles Schulz90 min
Season 21Episode 9Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character90 min
Season 22Episode 1Pete Seeger: The Power of Song90 min
Season 22Episode 2Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun90 min
Season 22Episode 3Marvin Gaye: What's Going On90 min
Season 22Episode 4You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935)90 min
Season 22Episode 5You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)90 min
Season 22Episode 6You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970)90 min
Season 22Episode 7You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989)90 min
Season 22Episode 8You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present)90 min
Season 22Episode 9The Brothers Warner90 min
Season 23Episode 1Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About90 min
Season 23Episode 2Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts90 min
Season 23Episode 3Hollywood Chinese90 min
Season 23Episode 4Neil Young: Don't Be Denied90 min
Season 23Episode 5Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes90 min
Season 23Episode 6Trumbo90 min
Season 23Episode 7Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound90 min
Season 23Episode 8Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'90 min
Season 24Episode 1Sam Cooke: Crossing Over90 min
Season 24Episode 2I.M. Pei: Building China Modern90 min
Season 24Episode 3The Doors: When You're Strange90 min
Season 24Episode 4Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself90 min
Season 24Episode 5Cachao: Uno Más90 min
Season 24Episode 6A Letter to Elia90 min
Season 24Episode 7Lennon NYC90 min
Season 24Episode 8Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould90 min
Season 25Episode 1Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides90 min
Season 25Episode 2Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter90 min
Season 25Episode 3John Muir in the New World90 min
Season 25Episode 4James Levine: America's Maestro90 min
Season 25Episode 5Pearl Jam Twenty90 min
Season 25Episode 6Bill T. Jones: A Good Man90 min
Season 25Episode 7Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 190 min
Season 25Episode 8Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 290 min
Season 25Episode 9Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter90 min
Season 26Episode 1Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune90 min
Season 26Episode 2Cab Calloway: Sketches90 min
Season 26Episode 3Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel90 min
Season 26Episode 4Harper Lee: Hey, Boo90 min
Season 26Episode 5Johnny Carson: King of Late Night90 min
Season 26Episode 6The Day Carl Sandburg Died90 min
Season 26Episode 7Inventing David Geffen90 min
Season 26Episode 8Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance90 min
Season 27Episode 1Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll90 min
Season 27Episode 2Philip Roth: Unmasked90 min
Season 27Episode 3Mel Brooks: Make a Noise90 min
Season 27Episode 4Billie Jean King90 min
Season 27Episode 5Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'90 min
Season 27Episode 6Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love90 min
Season 28Episode 1Salinger90 min
Season 28Episode 2Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth90 min
Season 28Episode 3A Fierce Green Fire60 min
Season 28Episode 4Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself90 min
Season 28Episode 5Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun90 min
Season 28Episode 6Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning120 min
Season 28Episode 7Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work90 min
Season 28Episode 8The Boomer List90 min
Season 28Episode 9Bing Crosby Rediscovered90 min
Season 29Episode 1Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice90 min
Season 29Episode 2August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand90 min
Season 29Episode 3Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler60 min
Season 29Episode 4American Ballet Theatre: A History90 min
Season 29Episode 5Althea90 min
Season 29Episode 6Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey60 min
Season 29Episode 7The Women's List60 min
Season 30Episode 1Mike Nichols: An American Master60 min
Season 30Episode 2B.B. King: The Life of Riley60 min
Season 30Episode 3Carole King: Natural Woman60 min
Season 30Episode 4Fats Domino: The Birth of Rock N' Roll60 min
Season 30Episode 5Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl120 min
Season 30Episode 6Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue120 min
Season 30Episode 7The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End60 min
Season 30Episode 8Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You60 min
Season 30Episode 9Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future60 min
Season 31Episode 1By Sidney Lumet120 min
Season 31Episode 2Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise60 min
Season 31Episode 3Patsy Cline60 min
Season 31Episode 4James Beard: America's First Foodie60 min
Season 31Episode 5Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft60 min
Season 31Episode 6Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me90 min
Season 31Episode 7Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny60 min
Season 31Episode 8Tyrus Wong90 min
Season 31Episode 9Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive90 min
Season 31Episode 10Inspiring Woman Web Series90 min
Season 31Episode 11This Is Bob Hope...120 min
Season 32Episode 1Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart90 min
Season 32Episode 2Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story120 min
Season 32Episode 3Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived60 min
Season 32Episode 4Eva Hesse90 min
Season 32Episode 5Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray60 min
Season 32Episode 6Andrew Wyeth60 min
Season 32Episode 7Basquiat: Rage to Riches90 min
Season 32Episode 8Itzhak90 min
Season 33Episode 1Decoding Watson90 min
Season 33Episode 2Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me90 min
Season 33Episode 3Charley Pride: I'm Just Me90 min
Season 33Episode 4Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives60 min
Season 33Episode 5Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People90 min
Season 33Episode 6Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable90 min
Season 33Episode 7Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life90 min
Season 33Episode 8Robert Shaw - Man of Many Voices90 min
Season 33Episode 9Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin90 min
Season 33Episode 10Raul Julia: The World's a Stage90 min
Season 33Episode 11Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous90 min
Season 33Episode 12N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear90 min
Season 34Episode 1Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool90 min
Season 34Episode 2Mae West: Dirty Blonde90 min
Season 34Episode 3Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am90 min
Season 34Episode 4And She Could Be Next Part Two90 min
Season 34Episode 5Unladylike2020: The Changemakers90 min
Season 34Episode 6Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip90 min
Season 34Episode 7Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is90 min
Season 34Episode 8Keith Haring: Street Art Boy90 min
Season 34Episode 9Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page90 min
Season 35Episode 1How It Feels To Be Free120 min
Season 35Episode 2Flannery O'Connor90 min
Season 35Episode 3Twyla Moves90 min
Season 35Episode 4Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story90 min
Season 35Episode 5Oliver Sacks: His Own Life90 min
Season 35Episode 6Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir90 min
Season 35Episode 7Ballerina Boys90 min
Season 35Episode 8Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away90 min
Season 35Episode 9Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It90 min
Season 35Episode 10Becoming Helen Keller90 min
Season 36Episode 1Ailey90 min
Season 36Episode 2Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands120 min
Season 36Episode 3Waterman - Duke: Ambassador of Aloha90 min
Season 36Episode 4Joe Papp in Five Acts90 min
Season 36Episode 5Brian Wilson - Long Promised Road90 min
Season 36Episode 6Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On90 min
Season 36Episode 7The Adventures of Saul Bellow90 min
Season 36Episode 8Groucho & Cavett90 min
Season 37Episode 1Roberta Flack90 min
Season 37Episode 2Dr. Tony Fauci120 min
Season 37Episode 3In the Making90 min
Season 37Episode 4Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV90 min
Season 37Episode 5Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock and Roll90 min
Season 37Episode 6Jerry Brown: The Disrupter90 min
Season 37Episode 7Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely90 min
Season 37Episode 8A Song for Cesar90 min
Season 37Episode 9Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes90 min
Season 38Episode 1HOPPER: An American Love Story90 min
Season 38Episode 2Daniel Patrick Moynihan90 min
Season 38Episode 3The Incomparable Mr. Buckley90 min
Season 38Episode 4Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames90 min
Season 38Episode 5Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined90 min
Season 38Episode 6Brenda Lee: Rockin' Around90 min
Crew Susan Lacy Creator
Production Michael Kantor Executive Producer