American Masters (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)

American Masters

(a Titles & Air Dates Guide)

Last updated: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 -1:00

Show Details:

Start date: Jun 1986
End date: ___ ____
Status: current show
Network(s): PBS (US)
Run time: 120 min
Episodes: xx eps
Genre(s): Miscellaneous

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Episode #		Original Air Date	Titles

Season 1

1.	1-1	23 Jun 86	Arthur Miller: Private Conversations
2.	1-2	30 Jun 86	Phillip Johnson: A Self Portrait
3.	1-3	07 Jul 86	Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
4.	1-4	14 Jul 86	The Unknown Chaplin: Part 1
5.	1-5	21 Jul 86	The Unknown Chaplin: Part 2
6.	1-6	28 Jul 86	The Unknown Chaplin: Part 3
7.	1-7	04 Aug 86	Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
8.	1-8	11 Aug 86	James Levine: A Life in Music
9.	1-9	18 Aug 86	Aaron Copland: About the Composer
10.	1-10	25 Aug 86	Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
11.	1-11	01 Sep 86	Georgia O'Keeffe
12.	1-12	08 Sep 86	Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts

Season 2

13.	2-1	06 Jul 87	Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
14.	2-2	13 Jul 87	Directed by William Wyler
15.	2-3	20 Jul 87	Rubinstein Remembered
16.	2-4	27 Jul 87	Nik and Murray
17.	2-5	24 Aug 87	George Gershwin Remembered
18.	2-6	31 Aug 87	Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa
19.	2-7	14 Sep 87	The Negro Ensemble Company
20.	2-8	21 Sep 87	Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote
21.	2-9	28 Sep 87	The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch
22.	2-10	18 Nov 87	Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Season 3

23.	3-1	11 Jul 88	Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
24.	3-2	18 Jul 88	A Duke Named Ellington
25.	3-3	08 Aug 88	Andre Kertesz of the Cities
26.	3-4	22 Aug 88	Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
27.	3-5	29 Aug 88	Rivera in America
28.	3-6	05 Sep 88	Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl
29.	3-7	08 Mar 89	Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs
30.	3-8	26 Jun 89	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of Group Theater

Season 4

31.	4-1	03 Jul 89	Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
32.	4-2	10 Jul 89	Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
33.	4-3	31 Jul 89	Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
34.	4-4	14 Aug 89	James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
35.	4-5	17 Aug 89	Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
36.	4-6	11 Sep 89	Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
37.	4-7	18 Sep 89	Mort Sahl: Shaping Laughter
38.	4-8	25 Sep 89	W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
39.	4-9	15 Nov 89	Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
40.	4-10	20 Dec 89	Milos Forman: Portrait

Season 5

41.	5-1	02 Jul 90	Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
42.	5-2	09 Jul 90	John Cassavetes
43.	5-3	16 Jul 90	Martin Scorsese Directs
44.	5-4	23 Jul 90	You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
45.	5-5	30 Jul 90	Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter
46.	5-6	20 Aug 90	John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
47.	5-7	27 Aug 90	Sanford Meisner: The Theater's Best Kept Secret
48.	5-8	17 Sep 90	John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It

Season 6

49.	6-1	01 Jul 91	Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre
50.	6-2	08 Jul 91	Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio
51.	6-3	22 Jul 91	A. Einstein: How I See the World
52.	6-4	29 Jul 91	Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
53.	6-5	05 Aug 91	Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
54.	6-6	12 Aug 91	Menuhin: A Family Portrait
55.	6-7	26 Aug 91	Robert Motherwell and the New York School
56.	6-8	03 Jan 92	Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
57.	6-9	01 May 92	Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Season 7

58.	7-1	14 Mar 93	Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
59.	7-2	17 Mar 93	George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic
60.	7-3	24 Mar 93	D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

Season 8

61.	8-1	08 Dec 93	Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
62.	8-2	13 May 94	Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed

Season 9

63.	9-1	30 Nov 94	Rediscovering Will Rogers
64.	9-2	19 Dec 94	Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
65.	9-3	15 Feb 95	Placido Domingo: A Musical Life
66.	9-4	22 Mar 95	Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul

Season 10

67.	10-1	29 Nov 95	Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
68.	10-2	22 Jan 96	William Styron: The Way of the Writer
69.	10-3	24 Jan 96	Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
70.	10-4	10 Apr 96	Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
71.	10-5	22 May 96	Nichols and May: Take Two

Season 11

72.	11-1	25 Nov 96	Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice
73.	11-2	10 Dec 96	Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter
74.	11-3	09 Apr 97	Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
75.	11-4	07 May 97	Jack Paar: As I Was Saying
76.	11-5	25 Jun 97	Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper

Season 12

77.	12-1	17 Sep 97	The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
78.	12-2	26 Nov 97	Vaudeville
79.	12-3	04 Feb 98	Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
80.	12-4	29 Apr 98	Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
81.	12-5	01 May 98	Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes
82.	12-6	17 Jun 98	Alexander Calder

Season 13

83.	13-1	28 Oct 98	Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
84.	13-2	06 Jan 99	The Line King: Al Hirschfeld
85.	13-3	24 Feb 99	Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
86.	13-4	07 Apr 99	Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
87.	13-5	30 Jun 99	The Lives of Lillian Hellman
88.	13-6	30 Jun 99	Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer
89.	13-7	18 Aug 99	Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley

Season 14

90.	14-1	01 Nov 99	Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
91.	14-2	24 Nov 99	Norman Rockwell: Painting America
92.	14-3	08 Dec 99	Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
93.	14-4	05 Jan 00	Paul Taylor: Dancemaker
94.	14-5	02 Feb 00	Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
95.	14-6	12 Apr 00	Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
96.	14-7	31 May 00	The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation

Season 15

97.	15-1	27 Sep 00	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
98.	15-2	04 Oct 00	Mailer on Mailer
99.	15-3	22 Nov 00	On Cukor
100.	15-4	03 Dec 00	Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
101.	15-5	14 Feb 01	Bob Marley: Rebel Music
102.	15-6	09 Apr 01	A Conversation with Gregory Peck
103.	15-7	16 Apr 01	Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
104.	15-8	23 Apr 01	Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians

Season 16

105.	16-1	07 Oct 01	Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
106.	16-2	14 Oct 01	F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
107.	16-3	21 Oct 01	Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds
108.	16-4	18 Nov 01	Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
109.	16-5	28 Nov 01	Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records
110.	16-6	16 Dec 01	Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
111.	16-7	19 Feb 02	Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
112.	16-8	01 Mar 02	Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Season 17

113.	17-1	02 Oct 02	Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving
114.	17-2	30 Oct 02	Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
115.	17-3	29 Jan 03	Juilliard
116.	17-4	19 Mar 03	Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
117.	17-5	02 Apr 03	Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
118.	17-6	23 Apr 03	Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
119.	17-7	28 May 03	Robert Capa: In Love and War
120.	17-8	30 Jul 03	The Education of Gore Vidal

Season 18

121.	18-1	03 Sep 03	Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
122.	18-2	29 Oct 03	James Brown: Soul Survivor
123.	18-3	07 Jan 04	Cary Grant: A Class Apart
124.	18-4	14 Jan 04	Balanchine
125.	18-5	25 Feb 04	Judy Garland: By Myself
126.	18-6	28 Apr 04	Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire
127.	18-7	23 Jun 04	Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
128.	18-8	18 Aug 04	Julia! America's Favorite Chef (60 min)

Season 19

129.	19-1	11 May 05	James Dean: Sense Memories
130.	19-2	29 Jun 05	Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
131.	19-3	13 Jul 05	George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
132.	19-4	20 Jul 05	Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
133.	19-5	07 Sep 05	Willa Cather: The Road is All
134.	19-6	14 Sep 05	Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
135.	19-7	27 Sep 05	Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

Season 20

136.	20-1	10 May 06	John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
137.	20-2	17 May 06	The World of Nat King Cole
138.	20-3	12 Jul 06	Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
139.	20-4	19 Jul 06	Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
140.	20-5	26 Jul 06	Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
141.	20-6	20 Sep 06	Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 1
142.	20-7	21 Sep 06	Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 2
143.	20-8	27 Sep 06	Sketches of Frank Gehry
144.	20-9	03 Jan 07	Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

Season 21

145.	21-1	04 Apr 07	Novel Reflections on the American Dream
146.	21-2	02 May 07	Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
147.	21-3	11 Jul 07	Les Paul: Chasing Sound
148.	21-4	18 Jul 07	David Hockney: The Colors of Music
149.	21-5	25 Jul 07	John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature
150.	21-6	12 Sep 07	Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
151.	21-7	19 Sep 07	Orozco: Man of Fire
152.	21-8	29 Oct 07	Good Ol' Charles Schulz
153.	21-9	05 Nov 07	Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character

Season 22

154.	22-1	27 Feb 08	Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
155.	22-2	09 Apr 08	Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
156.	22-3	07 May 08	Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
157.	22-4	23 Sep 08	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935)
158.	22-5	23 Sep 08	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)
159.	22-6	24 Sep 08	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970)
160.	22-7	24 Sep 08	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989)
161.	22-8	25 Sep 08	You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present)
162.	22-9	25 Sep 08	The Brothers Warner

Season 23

163.	23-1	18 Feb 09	Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
164.	23-2	08 Apr 09	Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
165.	23-3	27 May 09	Hollywood Chinese
166.	23-4	10 Jun 09	Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
167.	23-5	01 Jul 09	Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
168.	23-6	02 Sep 09	Trumbo
169.	23-7	14 Oct 09	Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
170.	23-8	28 Dec 09	Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Season 24

171.	24-1	11 Jan 10	Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
172.	24-2	31 Mar 10	I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
173.	24-3	12 May 10	The Doors: When You're Strange
174.	24-4	21 Jul 10	Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
175.	24-5	20 Sep 10	Cachao: Uno Más
176.	24-6	04 Oct 10	A Letter to Elia
177.	24-7	22 Nov 10	Lennon NYC
178.	24-8	27 Dec 10	Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Season 25

179.	25-1	12 Jan 11	Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
180.	25-2	02 Mar 11	Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
181.	25-3	18 Apr 11	John Muir in the New World
182.	25-4	01 Jun 11	James Levine: America's Maestro
183.	25-5	21 Oct 11	Pearl Jam Twenty
184.	25-6	11 Nov 11	Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
185.	25-7	20 Nov 11	Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 1
186.	25-8	21 Nov 11	Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 2
187.	25-9	29 Dec 11	Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter

Season 26

188.	26-1	23 Jan 12	Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
189.	26-2	27 Feb 12	Cab Calloway: Sketches
190.	26-3	02 Apr 12	Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
191.	26-4	02 Apr 12	Harper Lee: Hey, Boo
192.	26-5	14 May 12	Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
193.	26-6	24 Sep 12	The Day Carl Sandburg Died
194.	26-7	20 Nov 12	Inventing David Geffen
195.	26-8	28 Dec 12	Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

Season 27

196.	27-1	22 Feb 13	Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
197.	27-2	29 Mar 13	Philip Roth: Unmasked
198.	27-3	20 May 13	Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
199.	27-4	10 Sep 13	Billie Jean King
200.	27-5	05 Nov 13	Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
201.	27-6	27 Dec 13	Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love

Season 28

202.	28-1	21 Jan 14	Salinger
203.	28-2	07 Feb 14	Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
204.	28-3	22 Apr 14	A Fierce Green Fire (60 min)
205.	28-4	16 May 14	Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
206.	28-5	20 Jun 14	Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
207.	28-6	29 Aug 14	Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (120 min)
208.	28-7	23 Sep 14	Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
209.	28-8	23 Sep 14	The Boomer List
210.	28-9	02 Dec 14	Bing Crosby Rediscovered

Season 29

211.	29-1	23 Jan 15	Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice
212.	29-2	20 Feb 15	August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
213.	29-3	16 Apr 15	Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler (60 min)
214.	29-4	15 May 15	American Ballet Theatre: A History
215.	29-5	04 Sep 15	Althea
216.	29-6	18 Sep 15	Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey (60 min)
217.	29-7	25 Sep 15	The Women's List (60 min)

Season 30

218.	30-1	29 Jan 16	Mike Nichols: An American Master (60 min)
219.	30-2	12 Feb 16	B.B. King: The Life of Riley (60 min)
220.	30-3	19 Feb 16	Carole King: Natural Woman (60 min)
221.	30-4	26 Feb 16	Fats Domino: The Birth of Rock N' Roll (60 min)
222.	30-5	04 Mar 16	Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl (120 min)
223.	30-6	03 May 16	Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue (120 min)
224.	30-7	27 May 16	The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End (60 min)
225.	30-8	25 Oct 16	Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (60 min)
226.	30-9	27 Dec 16	Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (60 min)

Season 31

227.	31-1	03 Jan 17	By Sidney Lumet (120 min)
228.	31-2	21 Feb 17	Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (60 min)
229.	31-3	04 Mar 17	Patsy Cline (60 min)
230.	31-4	19 May 17	James Beard: America's First Foodie (60 min)
231.	31-5	26 May 17	Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft (60 min)
232.	31-6	16 Aug 17	Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
233.	31-7	01 Sep 17	Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny (60 min)
234.	31-8	08 Sep 17	Tyrus Wong
235.	31-9	30 Oct 17	Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
236.	31-10	08 Nov 17	Inspiring Woman Web Series
237.	31-11	29 Dec 17	This Is Bob Hope... (120 min)

Season 32

238.	32-1	19 Jan 18	Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
239.	32-2	18 May 18	Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (120 min)
240.	32-3	23 Jul 18	Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived (60 min)
241.	32-4	31 Aug 18	Eva Hesse
242.	32-5	07 Sep 18	Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (60 min)
243.	32-6	07 Sep 18	Andrew Wyeth (60 min)
244.	32-7	14 Sep 18	Basquiat: Rage to Riches
245.	32-8	14 Oct 18	Itzhak

Season 33

246.	33-1	02 Jan 19	Decoding Watson
247.	33-2	19 Feb 19	Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
248.	33-3	22 Feb 19	Charley Pride: I'm Just Me
249.	33-4	01 Mar 19	Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives (60 min)
250.	33-5	12 Apr 19	Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
251.	33-6	19 Apr 19	Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
252.	33-7	14 Jun 19	Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
253.	33-8	21 Jun 19	Robert Shaw - Man of Many Voices
254.	33-9	02 Aug 19	Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
255.	33-10	13 Sep 19	Raul Julia: The World's a Stage
256.	33-11	25 Oct 19	Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
257.	33-12	18 Nov 19	N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear

Season 34

258.	34-1	25 Feb 20	Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
259.	34-2	16 Jun 20	Mae West: Dirty Blonde
260.	34-3	23 Jun 20	Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
261.	34-4	30 Jun 20	And She Could Be Next Part Two
262.	34-5	10 Jul 20	Unladylike2020: The Changemakers
263.	34-6	20 Oct 20	Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
264.	34-7	23 Oct 20	Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
265.	34-8	11 Dec 20	Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
266.	34-9	29 Dec 20	Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page

Season 35

267.	35-1	18 Jan 21	How It Feels To Be Free (120 min)
268.	35-2	23 Mar 21	Flannery O'Connor
269.	35-3	26 Mar 21	Twyla Moves
270.	35-4	02 Apr 21	Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
271.	35-5	09 Apr 21	Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
272.	35-6	03 May 21	Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
273.	35-7	04 Jun 21	Ballerina Boys
274.	35-8	27 Jul 21	Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
275.	35-9	05 Oct 21	Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
276.	35-10	19 Oct 21	Becoming Helen Keller

Season 36

277.	36-1	11 Jan 22	Ailey
278.	36-2	08 Feb 22	Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (120 min)
279.	36-3	10 May 22	Waterman - Duke: Ambassador of Aloha
280.	36-4	03 Jun 22	Joe Papp in Five Acts
281.	36-5	14 Jun 22	Brian Wilson - Long Promised Road
282.	36-6	22 Nov 22	Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
283.	36-7	12 Dec 22	The Adventures of Saul Bellow
284.	36-8	27 Dec 22	Groucho & Cavett

Season 37

285.	37-1	24 Jan 23	Roberta Flack
286.	37-2	21 Mar 23	Dr. Tony Fauci (120 min)
287.	37-3	24 Mar 23	In the Making
288.	37-4	16 May 23	Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
289.	37-5	02 Jun 23	Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock and Roll
290.	37-6	15 Sep 23	Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
291.	37-7	22 Sep 23	Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
292.	37-8	29 Sep 23	A Song for Cesar
293.	37-9	06 Oct 23	Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

Season 38

294.	38-1	02 Jan 24	HOPPER: An American Love Story
295.	38-2	29 Mar 24	Daniel Patrick Moynihan
296.	38-3	05 Apr 24	The Incomparable Mr. Buckley

Specials

S37.	37-0	13 Mar 23	Lily Gladstone: Far Out There
S37.	37-0	04 Apr 23	Alejandro Jimenez: The Ground I Stand On
S37.	37-0	08 Sep 23	Bella! This Woman's Place Is in the House

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