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American Masters : Season 33
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Air date: 02 Jan '19 - 12 episodesAmerican Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on artists, actors and writers of the United States who have left a profound impact on the nation's popular culture. It is produced by WNET in New York City. The show debuted on PBS in 1986. Groups or organizations featured include: Actors Studio, Algonquin Round Table, Group Theatre, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Women of Tin Pan Alley, Negro Ensemble Company, Juilliard School, the Beat Generation, The Singer-songwriters of the 1970s, Sun Records, Vaudeville, and Warner Bros. Pictures.
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List of Episodes (12)
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American Masters (1986)
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1. Decoding Watson
02 Jan '19Meet James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind the double helix as he confronts his complex legacy. With unprecedented access to Watson and his family, "American Masters: Decoding Watson" explores his life, achievements, controversies and contradictions.
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American Masters (1986)
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2. Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
19 Feb '19Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale. And yet, his life was complex, complicated and contradictory. Davis strove to achieve the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice and shifting political territory.
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American Masters (1986)
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3. Charley Pride
22 Feb '19Raised in segregated Mississippi, country performer Charley Pride proves artistic expression can triumph over prejudice and injustice.
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American Masters (1986)
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4. Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
01 Mar '19For 40 years, singer and activist Holly Near works on global social justice coalition-building in the women's and lesbian movements.
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American Masters (1986)
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5. Joseph Pulitzer: Voice Of The People
12 Apr '19Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer becomes one of America's most feared and admired newspaper moguls and a crusader for freedom of the press.
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American Masters (1986)
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6. Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
19 Apr '19A documentary about an important American still photographer who captured New York City in the 1960s (his work there is said to have influenced the TV show Mad Men) and later the West in Texas and Los Angeles.
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American Masters (1986)
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7. Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
14 Jun '19Playwright, librettist, scriptwriter and outspoken LGBTQ activist Terrence McNally has long believed in the power of the arts to transform society and make a difference. The film lifts the curtain on the life, career and inspirations of the complicated and brilliant Emmy- and four-time Tony Award-winning writer.
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American Masters (1986)
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8. Robert Shaw -- Man of Many Voices
21 Jun '19A profile of the conductor, his work with the civil rights movement, and his musical legacy.
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American Masters (1986)
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9. Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
02 Aug '19Explore the remarkable life and legacy of late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin whose groundbreaking work, including “The Left Hand of Darkness,” transformed American literature by bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream.
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American Masters (1986)
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10. Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
13 Sep '19American Masters and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES join forces to present the first documentary about Raúl Juliá, the versatile Puerto Rican actor whose work on stage and screen took the world by storm. Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage premieres Friday, September 13, 2019 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS, pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS Video App in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
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American Masters (1986)
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11. Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
25 Oct '19Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York.
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American Masters (1986)
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12. N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear
18 Nov '19Delve into the enigmatic life and mind of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet N. Scott Momaday, best known for “House Made of Dawn” and a formative voice of the Native American Renaissance in art and literature.
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