Episodes
S1 E1 Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'
S1 E2 Philip Johnson, Self Portrait
S1 E3 Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
S1 E4 The Unknown Chaplin (1)- S1 E5 The Unknown Chaplin (2)
- S1 E6 The Unknown Chaplin (3)
S1 E7 Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
S1 E8 James Levine: A Life in Music
S1 E9 Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait
S1 E10 Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
S1 E11 Georgia O'Keeffe
S1 E12 Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
S2 E1 Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
S2 E2 Directed by William Wyler- S2 E3 Rubinstein Remembered
- S2 E4 Nik and Murray
S2 E5 George Gershwin Remembered- S2 E6 Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa
S2 E7 The Negro Ensemble Company
S2 E8 Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote
S2 E9 The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
S2 E10 Buster Keaton: Hard Act to Follow
S3 E1 Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
S3 E2 A Duke Named Ellington
S3 E3 Andre Kertesz of the Cities
S3 E4 Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
S3 E5 Rivera in America
S3 E6 Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl
S3 E7 Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs
S3 E8 Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre- S4 E1 Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
- S4 E2 Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
S4 E3 Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
S4 E4 James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
S4 E5 Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
S4 E6 Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
S4 E7 Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
S4 E8 W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
S4 E9 Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
S4 E10 Milos Forman: Portrait
S5 E1 Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer- S5 E2 John Cassavetes
S5 E3 Martin Scorsese Directs
S5 E4 You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
S5 E5 Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter
S5 E6 John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen- S5 E7 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
S5 E8 John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
S6 E1 Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre
S6 E2 Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio
S6 E3 A. Einstein: How I See the World
S6 E4 Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
S6 E5 Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
S6 E6 Menuhin: A Family Portrait
S6 E7 Robert Motherwell and the New York School
S6 E8 Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
S6 E9 Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
S7 E1 Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
S7 E2 George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic- S7 E3 D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
S8 E1 Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
S8 E2 Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
S9 E1 Rediscovering Will Rogers
S9 E2 Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
S9 E3 Placido Domingo: A Musical Life- S9 E4 Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
S10 E1 Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
S10 E2 William Styron: The Way of the Writer
S10 E3 Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
S10 E4 Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
S10 E5 Nichols and May: Take Two
S11 E1 Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice
S11 E2 Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter
S11 E3 Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
S11 E4 Jack Paar: As I Was Saying
S11 E5 Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
S12 E1 The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
S12 E2 Vaudeville- S12 E3 Billy Wilder: the Human Comedy
S12 E4 Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
S12 E5 Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes
S12 E6 Alexander Calder
S13 E1 Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
S13 E2 The Line King: Al Hirschfeld
S13 E3 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
S13 E4 Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
S13 E5 The Lives of Lillian Hellman
S13 E6 Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer
S13 E7 Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
S14 E1 Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
S14 E2 Norman Rockwell: Painting America
S14 E3 Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
S14 E4 Paul Taylor: Dancemaker
S14 E5 Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
S14 E6 Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
S14 E7 The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
S15 E1 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
S15 E2 Mailer On Mailer
S15 E3 On Cukor
S15 E4 Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
S15 E5 Bob Marley: Rebel Music
S15 E6 A Conversation with Gregory Peck
S15 E7 Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
S15 E8 Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
S16 E1 Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
S16 E2 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
S16 E3 Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds
S16 E4 Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
S16 E5 Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records
S16 E6 Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
S16 E7 Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
S16 E8 Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
S17 E1 Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving
S17 E2 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
S17 E3 Juilliard
S17 E4 Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution
S17 E5 Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
S17 E6 Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
S17 E7 Robert Capa: In Love and War
S17 E8 The Education of Gore Vidal
S18 E1 Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
S18 E2 James Brown: Soul Survivor
S18 E3 Cary Grant: A Class Apart
S18 E4 Balanchine
S18 E5 Judy Garland: By Myself
S18 E6 Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire
S18 E7 Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
S18 E8 Julia! America's Favorite Chef
S19 E1 James Dean: Sense Memories
S19 E2 Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
S19 E3 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
S19 E4 Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
S19 E5 Willa Cather: The Road is All
S19 E6 Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
S19 E7 Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (1)- S19 E8 Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (2)
S20 E1 John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
S20 E2 The World of Nat King Cole
S20 E3 Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
S20 E4 Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
S20 E5 Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
S20 E6 Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 1)
S20 E7 Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 2)
S20 E8 Sketches of Frank Gehry
S20 E9 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
S21 E1 Novel Reflections on the American Dream
S21 E2 Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
S21 E3 Les Paul: Chasing Sound
S21 E4 David Hockney: The Colors of Music
S21 E5 John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature
S21 E6 Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
S21 E7 Orozco: Man of Fire
S21 E8 Good Ol' Charles Schulz
S21 E9 Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
S22 E1 Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
S22 E2 Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
S22 E3 Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
S22 E4 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935)
S22 E5 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)
S22 E6 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970)- S22 E7 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989)
- S22 E8 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present)
- S22 E9 The Brothers Warner
S23 E1 Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
S23 E2 Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
S23 E3 Hollywood Chinese
S23 E4 Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
S23 E5 Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
S23 E6 Trumbo
S23 E7 Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
S23 E8 Louisa May Alcott: the Woman Behind 'Little Women'
S24 E1 Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
S24 E2 I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
S24 E3 The Doors: When You're Strange
S24 E4 Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
S24 E5 Cachao: Uno Más
S24 E6 A Letter to Elia
S24 E7 Lennon NYC
S24 E8 Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
S25 E1 Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
S25 E2 Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
S25 E3 John Muir in the New World
S25 E4 James Levine: America's Maestro
S25 E5 Pearl Jam Twenty
S25 E6 Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
S25 E7 Woody Allen: A Documentary (1)- S25 E8 Woody Allen: A Documentary (2)
S25 E9 Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
S26 E1 Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
S26 E2 Cab Calloway: Sketches
S26 E3 Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
S26 E4 Harper Lee: Hey, Boo
S26 E5 Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
S26 E6 The Day Carl Sandburg Died
S26 E7 Inventing David Geffen
S26 E8 Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
S27 E1 Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
S27 E2 Philip Roth: Unmasked
S27 E3 Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
S27 E4 Billie Jean King
S27 E5 Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
S27 E6 Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
S28 E1 Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love
S28 E2 Salinger
S28 E3 Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
S28 E4 A Fierce Green Fire
S28 E5 Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
S28 E6 Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
S28 E7 Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
S28 E8 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
S28 E9 The Boomer List
S28 E10 Bing Crosby Rediscovered
S29 E1 Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice
S29 E2 August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
S29 E3 Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
S29 E4 American Ballet Theatre: A History
S29 E5 Harper Lee
S29 E6 Althea
S29 E7 Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey
S29 E8 The Women's List
S30 E1 Mike Nichols
S30 E2 B.B. King: The Life of Riley
S30 E3 Carole King: Natural Woman
S30 E4 Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
S30 E5 Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
S30 E6 Janis: Little Girl Blue
S30 E7 The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
S30 E8 Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
S30 E9 Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
S31 E1 By Sidney Lumet
S31 E2 Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
S31 E3 Patsy Cline
S31 E4 James Beard: America’s First Foodie
S31 E5 Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft
S31 E6 Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny
S31 E7 Tyrus
S31 E8 Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
S31 E9 Inspiring Woman Web Series
S31 E10 This is Bob Hope
S32 E1 Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
S32 E2 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
S32 E3 Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived”
S32 E4 Artists Flight: Eva Hesse
S32 E5 Artists Flight: Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray
S32 E6 Andrew Wyeth
S32 E7 Basquiat: Rage to Riches
S32 E8 Itzhak Perlman
S33 E1 Decoding Watson
S33 E2 Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
S33 E3 Charley Pride
S33 E4 Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
S33 E5 Joseph Pulitzer: Voice Of The People
S33 E6 Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
S33 E7 Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
S33 E8 Robert Shaw -- Man of Many Voices
S33 E9 Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
S33 E10 Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
S33 E11 Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
S33 E12 N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear
S34 E1 Miles Davis Birth of the Cool
S34 E2 Mae West: Dirty Blonde
S34 E3 Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
S34 E4 Unladylike2020: The Changemakers
S34 E5 Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
S34 E6 Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
S34 E7 Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
S34 E8 Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
S35 E1 How It Feels To Be Free
S35 E2 Flannery
S35 E3 Twyla Moves
S35 E4 Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
S35 E5 Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
S35 E6 Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
S35 E7 Ballerina Boys
S35 E8 Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
S35 E9 Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
S35 E10 Becoming Helen Keller
S36 E1 Ailey
S36 E2 Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
S36 E3 Waterman – Duke: Ambassador of Aloha
S36 E4 Joe Papp in Five Acts
S36 E5 Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
S36 E6 Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
S36 E7 The Adventures of Saul Bellow
S36 E8 Groucho & Cavett
S37 E1 Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
S37 E1 Roberta Flack- S37 E2 Dr. Tony Fauci
S37 E2 The Adventures of Saul Bellow- S37 E3 In the Making
S37 E4 Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
S37 E5 Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll- S37 E6 Delete
- S37 E7 Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
- S37 E8 Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
- S37 E9 A Song for Cesar
- S37 E1 Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
- S37 E1 Roberta Flack
- S37 E2 Dr. Tony Fauci
- S37 E2 The Adventures of Saul Bellow
- S37 E3 In the Making
- S37 E4 Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
- S37 E5 Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
- S37 E6 Delete
- S37 E7 Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
- S37 E8 Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
- S37 E9 A Song for Cesar
- S37 E1 Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
- S38 E1 Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
- S0 E1 Premiere
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- Released
- 1986
- Runtime
- 1 hr 30 min