American Masters

  • : 1986
  • : 300
  • : 25
  • PBS
  • 21
  • Documentary

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26x1
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Episode overview
23, 2012
Three-time Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Kenneth Bowser examines one of American history’s most iconic folk music heroes and political agitators. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune is a .. show full overview
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Cab Calloway: Sketches
Episode overview
27, 2012
A singer, dancer and bandleader, Cab led one of the most popular African American big bands during the jazz and swing eras of the 1930s-40s, with Harlem’s famous Cotton Club as his home .. show full overview
26x3
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
Episode overview
02, 2012
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel engages leading historians, biographers and personal friends to reveal a complex woman who experienced profound identity shifts during her life and .. show full overview
26x4
Harper Lee: Hey, Boo
Episode overview
02, 2012
One of the biggest bestsellers of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) is the first and only novel by a young woman named Nelle Harper Lee, who once said that she wanted to be South .. show full overview
26x5
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
Episode overview
14, 2012
Quite possibly the biggest star that television has ever produced, Carson commanded, at his peak, a nightly audience of 15 million viewers – double the current audience of Leno and .. show full overview
26x6
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Episode overview
24, 2012
For much of the 20th century, Sandburg was synonymous with the American experience, a spokesman on behalf of the people. One of the most successful writers in the English language, .. show full overview
26x7
Inventing David Geffen
Episode overview
20, 2012
David Geffen’s far-reaching influence — as agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and philanthropist — has helped shape American popular culture for the past four decades.

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