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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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Arthur Miller: Private Conversations | 1986-06-23 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Phillip Johnson: A Self Portrait | 1986-06-30 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory | 1986-07-07 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Unknown Chaplin: Part 1 | 1986-07-14 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Unknown Chaplin: Part 2 | 1986-07-21 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Unknown Chaplin: Part 3 | 1986-07-28 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day | 1986-08-04 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | James Levine: A Life in Music | 1986-08-11 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aaron Copland: About the Composer | 1986-08-18 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait | 1986-08-25 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Georgia O'Keeffe | 1986-09-01 | 90 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts | 1986-09-08 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1987-07-06 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Directed by William Wyler | 1987-07-13 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Rubinstein Remembered | 1987-07-20 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Nik and Murray | 1987-07-27 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | George Gershwin Remembered | 1987-08-24 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa | 1987-08-31 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Negro Ensemble Company | 1987-09-14 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote | 1987-09-21 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch | 1987-09-28 | 90 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow | 1987-11-18 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me | 1988-07-11 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | A Duke Named Ellington | 1988-07-18 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Andre Kertesz of the Cities | 1988-08-08 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul | 1988-08-22 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Rivera in America | 1988-08-29 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl | 1988-09-05 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs | 1989-03-08 | 90 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of Group Theater | 1989-06-26 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre | 1989-07-03 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Stella Adler: Awake and Dream! | 1989-07-10 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong | 1989-07-31 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket | 1989-08-14 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker | 1989-08-17 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint | 1989-09-11 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Mort Sahl: Shaping Laughter | 1989-09-18 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult | 1989-09-25 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius | 1989-11-15 | 90 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Milos Forman: Portrait | 1989-12-20 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer | 1990-07-02 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | John Cassavetes | 1990-07-09 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Martin Scorsese Directs | 1990-07-16 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story | 1990-07-23 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter | 1990-07-30 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen | 1990-08-20 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Sanford Meisner: The Theater's Best Kept Secret | 1990-08-27 | 90 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It | 1990-09-17 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre | 1991-07-01 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio | 1991-07-08 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | A. Einstein: How I See the World | 1991-07-22 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One | 1991-07-29 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days | 1991-08-05 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Menuhin: A Family Portrait | 1991-08-12 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Robert Motherwell and the New York School | 1991-08-26 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul | 1992-01-03 | 90 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | 1992-05-01 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time | 1993-03-14 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic | 1993-03-17 | 90 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | D.W. Griffith: Father of Film | 1993-03-24 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing | 1993-12-08 | 90 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed | 1994-05-13 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Rediscovering Will Rogers | 1994-11-30 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | 1994-12-19 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Placido Domingo: A Musical Life | 1995-02-15 | 90 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul | 1995-03-22 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval | 1995-11-29 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | William Styron: The Way of the Writer | 1996-01-22 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light | 1996-01-24 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud | 1996-04-10 | 90 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | Nichols and May: Take Two | 1996-05-22 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice | 1996-11-25 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter | 1996-12-10 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde | 1997-04-09 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | Jack Paar: As I Was Saying | 1997-05-07 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper | 1997-06-25 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg | 1997-09-17 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | Vaudeville | 1997-11-26 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy | 1998-02-04 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart | 1998-04-29 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes | 1998-05-01 | 90 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | Alexander Calder | 1998-06-17 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note | 1998-10-28 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | The Line King: Al Hirschfeld | 1999-01-06 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | Paul Robeson: Here I Stand | 1999-02-24 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius | 1999-04-07 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 5 | The Lives of Lillian Hellman | 1999-06-30 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer | 1999-06-30 | 90 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley | 1999-08-18 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood | 1999-11-01 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | Norman Rockwell: Painting America | 1999-11-24 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For | 1999-12-08 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 4 | Paul Taylor: Dancemaker | 2000-01-05 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 5 | Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | 2000-02-02 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 6 | Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso | 2000-04-12 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 7 | The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation | 2000-05-31 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | 2000-09-27 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | Mailer on Mailer | 2000-10-04 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | On Cukor | 2000-11-22 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy | 2000-12-03 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | Bob Marley: Rebel Music | 2001-02-14 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 6 | A Conversation with Gregory Peck | 2001-04-09 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 7 | Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye | 2001-04-16 | 90 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 8 | Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians | 2001-04-23 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | 2001-10-07 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams | 2001-10-14 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds | 2001-10-21 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Quincy Jones: In the Pocket | 2001-11-18 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 5 | Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records | 2001-11-28 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 6 | Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance | 2001-12-16 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 7 | Ralph Ellison: An American Journey | 2002-02-19 | 90 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 8 | Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer | 2002-03-01 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 1 | Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving | 2002-10-02 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 2 | Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | 2002-10-30 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 3 | Juilliard | 2003-01-29 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 4 | Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution | 2003-03-19 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 5 | Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind | 2003-04-02 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 6 | Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied | 2003-04-23 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 7 | Robert Capa: In Love and War | 2003-05-28 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 8 | The Education of Gore Vidal | 2003-07-30 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 1 | Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist | 2003-09-03 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 2 | James Brown: Soul Survivor | 2003-10-29 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 3 | Cary Grant: A Class Apart | 2004-01-07 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 4 | Balanchine | 2004-01-14 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 5 | Judy Garland: By Myself | 2004-02-25 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 6 | Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire | 2004-04-28 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 7 | Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues | 2004-06-23 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 8 | Julia! America's Favorite Chef | 2004-08-18 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 1 | James Dean: Sense Memories | 2005-05-11 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 2 | Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice | 2005-06-29 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 3 | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | 2005-07-13 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 4 | Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned | 2005-07-20 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 5 | Willa Cather: The Road is All | 2005-09-07 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 6 | Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea | 2005-09-14 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 7 | Bob Dylan: No Direction Home | 2005-09-27 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 1 | John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend | 2006-05-10 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 2 | The World of Nat King Cole | 2006-05-17 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 3 | Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home | 2006-07-12 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 4 | Marilyn Monroe: Still Life | 2006-07-19 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 5 | Walter Cronkite: Witness to History | 2006-07-26 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 6 | Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 1 | 2006-09-20 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 7 | Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 2 | 2006-09-21 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 8 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | 2006-09-27 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 9 | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens | 2007-01-03 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 1 | Novel Reflections on the American Dream | 2007-04-04 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 2 | Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built | 2007-05-02 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 3 | Les Paul: Chasing Sound | 2007-07-11 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 4 | David Hockney: The Colors of Music | 2007-07-18 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 5 | John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature | 2007-07-25 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 6 | Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends | 2007-09-12 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 7 | Orozco: Man of Fire | 2007-09-19 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 8 | Good Ol' Charles Schulz | 2007-10-29 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 9 | Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character | 2007-11-05 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 1 | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song | 2008-02-27 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 2 | Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun | 2008-04-09 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 3 | Marvin Gaye: What's Going On | 2008-05-07 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 4 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935) | 2008-09-23 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 5 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950) | 2008-09-23 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 6 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970) | 2008-09-24 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 7 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989) | 2008-09-24 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 8 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present) | 2008-09-25 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 9 | The Brothers Warner | 2008-09-25 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 1 | Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About | 2009-02-18 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 2 | Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts | 2009-04-08 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 3 | Hollywood Chinese | 2009-05-27 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 4 | Neil Young: Don't Be Denied | 2009-06-10 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 5 | Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes | 2009-07-01 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 6 | Trumbo | 2009-09-02 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 7 | Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound | 2009-10-14 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 8 | Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women' | 2009-12-28 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 1 | Sam Cooke: Crossing Over | 2010-01-11 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 2 | I.M. Pei: Building China Modern | 2010-03-31 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 3 | The Doors: When You're Strange | 2010-05-12 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 4 | Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself | 2010-07-21 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 5 | Cachao: Uno Más | 2010-09-20 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 6 | A Letter to Elia | 2010-10-04 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 7 | Lennon NYC | 2010-11-22 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 8 | Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould | 2010-12-27 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 1 | Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides | 2011-01-12 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 2 | Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter | 2011-03-02 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 3 | John Muir in the New World | 2011-04-18 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 4 | James Levine: America's Maestro | 2011-06-01 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 5 | Pearl Jam Twenty | 2011-10-21 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 6 | Bill T. Jones: A Good Man | 2011-11-11 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 7 | Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 1 | 2011-11-20 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 8 | Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 2 | 2011-11-21 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 9 | Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter | 2011-12-29 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 1 | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | 2012-01-23 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 2 | Cab Calloway: Sketches | 2012-02-27 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 3 | Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel | 2012-04-02 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 4 | Harper Lee: Hey, Boo | 2012-04-02 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 5 | Johnny Carson: King of Late Night | 2012-05-14 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 6 | The Day Carl Sandburg Died | 2012-09-24 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 7 | Inventing David Geffen | 2012-11-20 | 90 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 8 | Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance | 2012-12-28 | 90 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 1 | Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll | 2013-02-22 | 90 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 2 | Philip Roth: Unmasked | 2013-03-29 | 90 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 3 | Mel Brooks: Make a Noise | 2013-05-20 | 90 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 4 | Billie Jean King | 2013-09-10 | 90 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 5 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' | 2013-11-05 | 90 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 6 | Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love | 2013-12-27 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 1 | Salinger | 2014-01-21 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 2 | Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth | 2014-02-07 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 3 | A Fierce Green Fire | 2014-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 4 | Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself | 2014-05-16 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 5 | Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun | 2014-06-20 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 6 | Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning | 2014-08-29 | 120 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 7 | Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work | 2014-09-23 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 8 | The Boomer List | 2014-09-23 | 90 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 9 | Bing Crosby Rediscovered | 2014-12-02 | 90 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 1 | Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice | 2015-01-23 | 90 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 2 | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | 90 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 3 | Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler | 2015-04-16 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 4 | American Ballet Theatre: A History | 2015-05-15 | 90 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 5 | Althea | 2015-09-04 | 90 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 6 | Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey | 2015-09-18 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 7 | The Women's List | 2015-09-25 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 1 | Mike Nichols: An American Master | 2016-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 2 | B.B. King: The Life of Riley | 2016-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 3 | Carole King: Natural Woman | 2016-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 4 | Fats Domino: The Birth of Rock N' Roll | 2016-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 5 | Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl | 2016-03-04 | 120 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 6 | Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue | 2016-05-03 | 120 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 7 | The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End | 2016-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 8 | Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | 2016-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 9 | Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future | 2016-12-27 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 1 | By Sidney Lumet | 2017-01-03 | 120 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 2 | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | 2017-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 3 | Patsy Cline | 2017-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 4 | James Beard: America's First Foodie | 2017-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 5 | Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft | 2017-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 6 | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | 2017-08-16 | 90 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 7 | Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny | 2017-09-01 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 8 | Tyrus Wong | 2017-09-08 | 90 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 9 | Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive | 2017-10-30 | 90 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 10 | Inspiring Woman Web Series | 2017-11-08 | 90 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 11 | This Is Bob Hope... | 2017-12-29 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 1 | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart | 2018-01-19 | 90 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 2 | Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story | 2018-05-18 | 120 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 3 | Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived | 2018-07-23 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 4 | Eva Hesse | 2018-08-31 | 90 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 5 | Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray | 2018-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 6 | Andrew Wyeth | 2018-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 7 | Basquiat: Rage to Riches | 2018-09-14 | 90 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 8 | Itzhak | 2018-10-14 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 1 | Decoding Watson | 2019-01-02 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 2 | Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | 2019-02-19 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 3 | Charley Pride: I'm Just Me | 2019-02-22 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 4 | Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives | 2019-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 5 | Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People | 2019-04-12 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 6 | Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable | 2019-04-19 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 7 | Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life | 2019-06-14 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 8 | Robert Shaw - Man of Many Voices | 2019-06-21 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 9 | Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin | 2019-08-02 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 10 | Raul Julia: The World's a Stage | 2019-09-13 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 11 | Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous | 2019-10-25 | 90 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 12 | N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear | 2019-11-18 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 1 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | 2020-02-25 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 2 | Mae West: Dirty Blonde | 2020-06-16 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 3 | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | 2020-06-23 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 4 | And She Could Be Next Part Two | 2020-06-30 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 5 | Unladylike2020: The Changemakers | 2020-07-10 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 6 | Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip | 2020-10-20 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 7 | Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is | 2020-10-23 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 8 | Keith Haring: Street Art Boy | 2020-12-11 | 90 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 9 | Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page | 2020-12-29 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 1 | How It Feels To Be Free | 2021-01-18 | 120 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 2 | Flannery O'Connor | 2021-03-23 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 3 | Twyla Moves | 2021-03-26 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 4 | Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story | 2021-04-02 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 5 | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | 2021-04-09 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 6 | Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir | 2021-05-03 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 7 | Ballerina Boys | 2021-06-04 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 8 | Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away | 2021-07-27 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 9 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It | 2021-10-05 | 90 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 10 | Becoming Helen Keller | 2021-10-19 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 1 | Ailey | 2022-01-11 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 2 | Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands | 2022-02-08 | 120 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 3 | Waterman - Duke: Ambassador of Aloha | 2022-05-10 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 4 | Joe Papp in Five Acts | 2022-06-03 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 5 | Brian Wilson - Long Promised Road | 2022-06-14 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 6 | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | 2022-11-22 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 7 | The Adventures of Saul Bellow | 2022-12-12 | 90 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 8 | Groucho & Cavett | 2022-12-27 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 1 | Roberta Flack | 2023-01-24 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 2 | Dr. Tony Fauci | 2023-03-21 | 120 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 3 | In the Making | 2023-03-24 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 4 | Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | 2023-05-16 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 5 | Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock and Roll | 2023-06-02 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 6 | Jerry Brown: The Disrupter | 2023-09-15 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 7 | Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely | 2023-09-22 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 8 | A Song for Cesar | 2023-09-29 | 90 min |
| Season 37 | Episode 9 | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes | 2023-10-06 | 90 min |
| Season 38 | Episode 1 | HOPPER: An American Love Story | 2024-01-02 | 90 min |
| Season 38 | Episode 2 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 2024-03-29 | 90 min |
| Season 38 | Episode 3 | The Incomparable Mr. Buckley | 2024-04-05 | 90 min |
| Season 38 | Episode 4 | Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames | 2024-08-27 | 90 min |
| Season 38 | Episode 5 | Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined | 2024-09-17 | 90 min |
| Season 38 | Episode 6 | Brenda Lee: Rockin' Around | 2024-12-16 | 90 min |
| Crew | Susan Lacy | Creator |
| Production | Michael Kantor | Executive Producer |
