Episode list

American Masters

Novel Reflections on The American Dream
The American novel is a powerful story. It unifies us, it motivates us, it gives meaning to our lives. It is a story assuring us that we can, indeed, define our own destiny. Yet, experience tells us there is another American story.
6.5 /10
Les Paul: Chasing Sound
The Authorized biography of Les Paul, " The Wizard of Waukesha". The name Les Paul is synonymous with the electric guitar. As a player, inventor, and recording artist(Paul had two #1 hits with his wife Mary Ford), Paul has been and innovator from the early years of his life. In 1928, thirteen-year-old Les Paul borrowed a phonograph needle from the family Victrola, stuck it under the strings of his Sear Roebuck guitar, and wired the contraption to a telephone mike and two radio speakers, thus achieving not only amplification but a crude stereo effect. The pioneering young musician then went on to invent scores of ingenious recording techniques, including overdubbing and multi-track recorders, as well as the solid-body electric guitar at the heart of the rock and roll revolution. Still spry at age 90, Les Paul tells his own classic rags-to-riches story in a feature-length HD documentary-with a soundtrack of greatest hits from Bing Crosby, Chet Atkins, B.B. KIng, and rock legends Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Paul McCartney.
7.6 /10
David Hockney: The Colors of Music
From painting to photos to collage, lithographs and set design, it seems artist David Hockney has done it all. The Colors of Music explores the painter's set designs while providing personal and career highlights.
7.3 /10
John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature
Biography of John James Audubon (1785-1851), by the 1830's he was recognized as the foremost American naturalist The self-trained artist and naturalist, is best known for The Birds of America.
7.1 /10
Orozco: Man of Fire
The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), a life filled with drama, adversity, and triumph, is one of the great stories of the modern era.
6.4 /10
Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
At 10pm every Saturday night, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, Americans watched The Carol Burnett Show. For 11 years, this wacky performer yelled like Tarzan and won our hearts, with her edgy always sympathetic characters.
8.4 /10

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