American Masters

  • Premiered: Jun 1986
  • Episodes: 305
  • Followers: 25
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Monday at 21
  • Documentary

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Season 20
20x1
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker & the Legend
Episode overview
Air date
May 10, 2006
John Ford and John Wayne - a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others' lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself.
20x2
The World of Nat King Cole
Episode overview
Air date
May 17, 2006
Archival performances, home movies and interviews illustrate singer Nat King Cole's achievements during a 30-year music and television career.
20x3
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
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Air date
Jul 11, 2006
Hear the story of Woody Guthrie's creative energy, personal imperfections and family tragedy.
20x4
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
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Air date
Jul 19, 2006
Explores Monroe as the icon of the 20th century via photography, perhaps, her greatest "love affair".
20x5
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2006
He was the man who told us that President Kennedy had been shot, the man who told us that we had put a man on the moon, and the man who told us that we couldn't win the war in Vietnam. For 20 years he anchored the evening news on CBS.
20x6
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 2006
Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. Ric Burns' absorbing profile of Andy Warhol (1928–1987) traces the .. show full overview
20x7
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 20, 2006
Ric Burns unearths rarely seen footage and offers keen observations on the life and artistic influence of Andy Warhol. Ric Burns' absorbing profile of Andy Warhol (1928-87) traces the .. show full overview
20x8
Sketches of Frank Gehry
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Air date
Sep 27, 2006
A look at the life and work of the renowned architect.
20x9 Season finale
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
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Air date
Jan 03, 2007
This film traces the artistic self-realization of Annie Leibovitz, from childhood through the death of her beloved friend, Susan Sontag, and includes snippets of Leibovitz's last visual .. show full overview

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