American Masters

This month, we are releasing a selection of films for you to stream and enjoy.

Watch In the Making, our new digital video series following the lives and journeys of emerging BIPOC artists.

A new documentary on the American author who wrote Little House on the Prairie premieres December 29 at 8 p.m. on PBS.

Sequoyah recognized the value of the European settlers’ “talking leaves,” and set out to create a written language for the Cherokee.

Gouverneur Morris broke barriers as a person with a disability, helping to unify the states.

Watch this new short film about the Grammy-nominated, modern jazz musician from New Orleans who defies expectations of jazz.

"She had not known before that it takes two to make a smile."

After his diagnosis, he was driven to create art more aggressively than before, even while he traveling back and forth to doctors.

These videos will change the way you cook eggs forever.

Whenever she brought her gingerbread to a church social or party, it always disappeared!

Explore the life and career of the author.

Explore the life of artist Keith Haring who revolutionized pop culture and fine art. Streaming starting December 4th.

Street artist. Prolific AIDS activist. Sexual art pioneer. Keith Haring was all of these things and so much more.

No canvas? No problem! Here's how Haring made his work accessible to all.

New documentary about Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier, premieres winter 2021 on PBS.

In this column from 1916, Wilder reminds us to be thankful of aspects of life that we often overlook.

“The future is in our hands to make it what we will.”

Explore the music of Anik Khan, the Bangladesh-born, Queens, New York-raised hip-hop artist.

He started to get to know the biggest celebrities of the era on a first-name basis (among them: Andy, Brooke, Michael, Farrah and Yoko).

Celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great jazz saxophonist and composer with this documentary on his life. Now streaming.

Aaron Copland won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music for "Appalachian Spring."