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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
Episode list & details from:  TVmaze •  TV.com
Episode # Original
Air Date
Titles
 
Season 1
 
1.1-1 23 Jun 86Arthur Miller: Private Conversations
2.1-2 30 Jun 86Phillip Johnson: A Self Portrait
3.1-3 07 Jul 86Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
4.1-4 14 Jul 86The Unknown Chaplin: Part 1
5.1-5 21 Jul 86The Unknown Chaplin: Part 2
6.1-6 28 Jul 86The Unknown Chaplin: Part 3
7.1-7 04 Aug 86Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
8.1-8 11 Aug 86James Levine: A Life in Music
9.1-9 18 Aug 86Aaron Copland: About the Composer
10.1-1025 Aug 86Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
11.1-1101 Sep 86Georgia O'Keeffe
12.1-1208 Sep 86Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
 
Season 2
 
13.2-1 06 Jul 87Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
14.2-2 13 Jul 87Directed by William Wyler
15.2-3 20 Jul 87Rubinstein Remembered
16.2-4 27 Jul 87Nik and Murray
17.2-5 24 Aug 87George Gershwin Remembered
18.2-6 31 Aug 87Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa
19.2-7 14 Sep 87The Negro Ensemble Company
20.2-8 21 Sep 87Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote
21.2-9 28 Sep 87The Algonquin Round Table: The Ten Year Lunch
22.2-1018 Nov 87Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
23.2-1119 Nov 87Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (Part 2)
24.2-1220 Nov 87Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (Part 3)
 
Season 3
 
25.3-1 11 Jul 88Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
26.3-2 18 Jul 88A Duke Named Ellington
27.3-3 08 Aug 88Andre Kertesz of the Cities
28.3-4 22 Aug 88Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
29.3-5 29 Aug 88Rivera in America
30.3-6 05 Sep 88Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl
31.3-7 08 Mar 89Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs
32.3-8 26 Jun 89Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of Group Theater
 
Season 4
 
33.4-1 03 Jul 89Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
34.4-2 10 Jul 89Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
35.4-3 31 Jul 89Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
36.4-4 14 Aug 89James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
37.4-5 17 Aug 89Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
38.4-6 11 Sep 89Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
39.4-7 18 Sep 89Mort Sahl: Shaping Laughter
40.4-8 25 Sep 89W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
41.4-9 15 Nov 89Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
42.4-1020 Dec 89Milos Forman: Portrait
 
Season 5
 
43.5-1 02 Jul 90Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
44.5-2 09 Jul 90John Cassavetes
45.5-3 16 Jul 90Martin Scorsese Directs
46.5-4 23 Jul 90You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
47.5-5 30 Jul 90Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter
48.5-6 20 Aug 90John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
49.5-7 27 Aug 90Sanford Meisner: The Theater's Best Kept Secret
50.5-8 17 Sep 90John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It
 
Season 6
 
51.6-1 01 Jul 91Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre
52.6-2 08 Jul 91Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio
53.6-3 22 Jul 91A. Einstein: How I See the World
54.6-4 29 Jul 91Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
55.6-5 05 Aug 91Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
56.6-6 12 Aug 91Menuhin: A Family Portrait
57.6-7 26 Aug 91Robert Motherwell and the New York School
58.6-8 03 Jan 92Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
59.6-9 10 Apr 92Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
60.6-1001 May 92Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
 
Season 7
 
61.7-1 14 Mar 93Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
62.7-2 17 Mar 93George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic
63.7-3 24 Mar 93D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
 
Season 8
 
64.8-1 08 Dec 93Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
65.8-2 13 May 94Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
 
Season 9
 
66.9-1 30 Nov 94Rediscovering Will Rogers
67.9-2 19 Dec 94Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
68.9-3 15 Feb 95Placido Domingo: A Musical Life
69.9-4 22 Mar 95Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
 
Season 10
 
70.10-129 Nov 95Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
71.10-222 Jan 96William Styron: The Way of the Writer
72.10-324 Jan 96Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
73.10-410 Apr 96Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
74.10-522 May 96Nichols and May: Take Two
 
Season 11
 
75.11-125 Nov 96Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice
76.11-210 Dec 96Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter
77.11-309 Apr 97Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
78.11-407 May 97Jack Paar: As I Was Saying
79.11-525 Jun 97Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
 
Season 12
 
80.12-117 Sep 97The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
81.12-226 Nov 97Vaudeville
82.12-304 Feb 98Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
83.12-429 Apr 98Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
84.12-501 May 98Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes
85.12-617 Jun 98Alexander Calder
 
Season 13
 
86.13-128 Oct 98Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
87.13-206 Jan 99The Line King: Al Hirschfeld
88.13-324 Feb 99Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
89.13-407 Apr 99Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
90.13-530 Jun 99The Lives of Lillian Hellman
91.13-630 Jun 99Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer
92.13-718 Aug 99Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
 
Season 14
 
93.14-101 Nov 99Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
94.14-224 Nov 99Norman Rockwell: Painting America
95.14-308 Dec 99Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
96.14-405 Jan 00Paul Taylor: Dancemaker
97.14-502 Feb 00Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
98.14-612 Apr 00Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
99.14-731 May 00The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
 
Season 15
 
100.15-127 Sep 00Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
101.15-204 Oct 00Mailer on Mailer
102.15-322 Nov 00On Cukor
103.15-403 Dec 00Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
104.15-514 Feb 01Bob Marley: Rebel Music
105.15-609 Apr 01A Conversation with Gregory Peck
106.15-716 Apr 01Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
107.15-823 Apr 01Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
 
Season 16
 
108.16-107 Oct 01Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
109.16-214 Oct 01F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
110.16-321 Oct 01Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds
111.16-418 Nov 01Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
112.16-528 Nov 01Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records
113.16-616 Dec 01Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
114.16-719 Feb 02Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
115.16-801 Mar 02Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
 
Season 17
 
116.17-102 Oct 02Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving
117.17-230 Oct 02Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
118.17-329 Jan 03Juilliard
119.17-419 Mar 03Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
120.17-502 Apr 03Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
121.17-623 Apr 03Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
122.17-728 May 03Robert Capa: In Love and War
123.17-830 Jul 03The Education of Gore Vidal
 
Season 18
 
124.18-103 Sep 03Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
125.18-229 Oct 03James Brown: Soul Survivor
126.18-307 Jan 04Cary Grant: A Class Apart
127.18-414 Jan 04Balanchine
128.18-525 Feb 04Judy Garland: By Myself
129.18-628 Apr 04Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire
130.18-723 Jun 04Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
131.18-818 Aug 04Julia! America's Favorite Chef (60 min)
 
Season 19
 
132.19-111 May 05James Dean: Sense Memories
133.19-229 Jun 05Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
134.19-313 Jul 05George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
135.19-420 Jul 05Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
136.19-507 Sep 05Willa Cather: The Road is All
137.19-614 Sep 05Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
138.19-727 Sep 05Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
 
Season 20
 
139.20-110 May 06John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
140.20-217 May 06The World of Nat King Cole
141.20-312 Jul 06Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
142.20-419 Jul 06Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
143.20-526 Jul 06Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
144.20-620 Sep 06Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 1
145.20-721 Sep 06Andy Warhol: A Documentary: Part 2
146.20-827 Sep 06Sketches of Frank Gehry
147.20-903 Jan 07Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
 
Season 21
 
148.21-104 Apr 07Novel Reflections on the American Dream
149.21-202 May 07Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
150.21-311 Jul 07Les Paul: Chasing Sound
151.21-418 Jul 07David Hockney: The Colors of Music
152.21-525 Jul 07John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature
153.21-612 Sep 07Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
154.21-719 Sep 07Orozco: Man of Fire
155.21-829 Oct 07Good Ol' Charles Schulz
156.21-905 Nov 07Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
 
Season 22
 
157.22-127 Feb 08Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
158.22-209 Apr 08Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
159.22-307 May 08Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
160.22-423 Sep 08You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935)
161.22-523 Sep 08You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)
162.22-624 Sep 08You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970)
163.22-724 Sep 08You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989)
164.22-825 Sep 08You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present)
165.22-925 Sep 08The Brothers Warner
 
Season 23
 
166.23-118 Feb 09Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
167.23-208 Apr 09Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
168.23-327 May 09Hollywood Chinese
169.23-410 Jun 09Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
170.23-501 Jul 09Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
171.23-602 Sep 09Trumbo
172.23-714 Oct 09Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
173.23-828 Dec 09Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'
 
Season 24
 
174.24-111 Jan 10Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
175.24-231 Mar 10I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
176.24-312 May 10The Doors: When You're Strange
177.24-421 Jul 10Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
178.24-520 Sep 10Cachao: Uno Más
179.24-604 Oct 10A Letter to Elia
180.24-722 Nov 10Lennon NYC
181.24-827 Dec 10Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
 
Season 25
 
182.25-112 Jan 11Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
183.25-202 Mar 11Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
184.25-318 Apr 11John Muir in the New World
185.25-401 Jun 11James Levine: America's Maestro
186.25-521 Oct 11Pearl Jam Twenty
187.25-611 Nov 11Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
188.25-720 Nov 11Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 1
189.25-821 Nov 11Woody Allen: A Documentary: Part 2
190.25-929 Dec 11Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
 
Season 26
 
191.26-123 Jan 12Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
192.26-227 Feb 12Cab Calloway: Sketches
193.26-302 Apr 12Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
194.26-402 Apr 12Harper Lee: Hey, Boo
195.26-514 May 12Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
196.26-624 Sep 12The Day Carl Sandburg Died
197.26-720 Nov 12Inventing David Geffen
198.26-828 Dec 12Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
 
Season 27
 
199.27-122 Feb 13Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
200.27-229 Mar 13Philip Roth: Unmasked
201.27-320 May 13Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
202.27-410 Sep 13Billie Jean King
203.27-505 Nov 13Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
204.27-627 Dec 13Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love
 
Season 28
 
205.28-121 Jan 14Salinger
206.28-207 Feb 14Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
207.28-322 Apr 14A Fierce Green Fire (60 min)
208.28-416 May 14Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
209.28-520 Jun 14Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
210.28-629 Aug 14Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (120 min)
211.28-723 Sep 14Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
212.28-823 Sep 14The Boomer List
213.28-902 Dec 14Bing Crosby Rediscovered
 
Season 29
 
214.29-123 Jan 15Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice
215.29-220 Feb 15August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
216.29-316 Apr 15Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler (60 min)
217.29-415 May 15American Ballet Theatre: A History
218.29-504 Sep 15Althea
219.29-618 Sep 15Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey (60 min)
220.29-725 Sep 15The Women's List (60 min)
 
Season 30
 
221.30-129 Jan 16Mike Nichols: An American Master (60 min)
222.30-212 Feb 16B.B. King: The Life of Riley (60 min)
223.30-319 Feb 16Carole King: Natural Woman (60 min)
224.30-426 Feb 16Fats Domino: The Birth of Rock N' Roll (60 min)
225.30-504 Mar 16Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl (120 min)
226.30-603 May 16Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue (120 min)
227.30-727 May 16The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End (60 min)
228.30-825 Oct 16Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (60 min)
229.30-927 Dec 16Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (60 min)
 
Season 31
 
230.31-103 Jan 17By Sidney Lumet (120 min)
231.31-221 Feb 17Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (60 min)
232.31-304 Mar 17Patsy Cline (60 min)
233.31-419 May 17James Beard: America's First Foodie (60 min)
234.31-526 May 17Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft (60 min)
235.31-616 Aug 17Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
236.31-701 Sep 17Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny (60 min)
237.31-808 Sep 17Tyrus Wong
238.31-930 Oct 17Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
239.31-1008 Nov 17Inspiring Woman Web Series
240.31-1129 Dec 17This Is Bob Hope... (120 min)
 
Season 32
 
241.32-119 Jan 18Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
242.32-218 May 18Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (120 min)
243.32-323 Jul 18Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived (60 min)
244.32-431 Aug 18Eva Hesse
245.32-507 Sep 18Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (60 min)
246.32-607 Sep 18Andrew Wyeth (60 min)
247.32-714 Sep 18Basquiat: Rage to Riches
248.32-814 Oct 18Itzhak
 
Season 33
 
249.33-102 Jan 19Decoding Watson
250.33-219 Feb 19Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
251.33-322 Feb 19Charley Pride: I'm Just Me
252.33-401 Mar 19Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives (60 min)
253.33-512 Apr 19Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
254.33-619 Apr 19Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
255.33-714 Jun 19Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
256.33-821 Jun 19Robert Shaw - Man of Many Voices
257.33-902 Aug 19Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
258.33-1013 Sep 19Raul Julia: The World's a Stage
259.33-1125 Oct 19Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
260.33-1218 Nov 19N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear
 
Season 34
 
261.34-125 Feb 20Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
262.34-216 Jun 20Mae West: Dirty Blonde
263.34-323 Jun 20Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
264.34-430 Jun 20And She Could Be Next Part Two
265.34-510 Jul 20Unladylike2020: The Changemakers
266.34-620 Oct 20Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
267.34-723 Oct 20Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
268.34-811 Dec 20Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
269.34-929 Dec 20Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
 
Season 35
 
270.35-118 Jan 21How It Feels To Be Free (120 min)
271.35-223 Mar 21Flannery O'Connor
272.35-326 Mar 21Twyla Moves
273.35-402 Apr 21Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
274.35-509 Apr 21Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
275.35-603 May 21Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
276.35-704 Jun 21Ballerina Boys
277.35-827 Jul 21Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
278.35-905 Oct 21Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
279.35-1019 Oct 21Becoming Helen Keller
 
Season 36
 
280.36-111 Jan 22Ailey
281.36-208 Feb 22Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (120 min)
282.36-310 May 22Waterman - Duke: Ambassador of Aloha
283.36-403 Jun 22Joe Papp in Five Acts
284.36-514 Jun 22Brian Wilson - Long Promised Road
285.36-622 Nov 22Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
286.36-712 Dec 22The Adventures of Saul Bellow
287.36-827 Dec 22Groucho & Cavett
 
Season 37
 
288.37-124 Jan 23Roberta Flack
289.37-221 Mar 23Dr. Tony Fauci (120 min)
290.37-324 Mar 23In the Making
291.37-416 May 23Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
292.37-502 Jun 23Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock and Roll
293.37-615 Sep 23Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
294.37-722 Sep 23Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
295.37-829 Sep 23A Song for Cesar
296.37-906 Oct 23Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
 
Season 38
 
297.38-102 Jan 24HOPPER: An American Love Story
298.38-229 Mar 24Daniel Patrick Moynihan
299.38-305 Apr 24The Incomparable Mr. Buckley
300.38-427 Aug 24Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
301.38-517 Sep 24Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined
302.38-616 Dec 24Brenda Lee: Rockin' Around
 
Season 39
 
303.39-121 Feb 25The Disappearance of Miss Scott
304.39-201 Apr 25LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
305.39-315 Apr 25Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
 
Specials
 
S34.34-005 Oct 20Maia Cruz Palileo: Becoming the Moon (12 min)
S37.37-013 Mar 23Lily Gladstone: Far Out There
S37.37-004 Apr 23Alejandro Jimenez: The Ground I Stand On (12 min)
S37.37-008 Sep 23Bella! This Woman's Place Is in the House
 
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