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Rosie O'Donnell (b. 1962) discusses her childhood growing up in Commack, Long Island.

In this film excerpt, actress Kim Cattrall (b. 1956) discusses the important choices that shaped her future. Faced with tough decisions as a young performer, Cattrall looks back at her early experiences and reflects on the path that lead to her long and successful acting ...

Steve Wozniak (b. 1950) co-founder, Apple Computer, recalls the days when a computer cost as much as a house. He set out to build a computer he could afford, and in doing so, paved the way millions of others to afford one, too. American Masters: ...

Serving in Vietnam and the music of the era are inextricably linked for veteran and author Tim O'Brien (b. 1946). "One of my most powerful memories of Vietnam has nothing to do with bullets and firefights," he says. It's about the moment when two platoons ...

American Masters – Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work takes the audience on a year-long ride with Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as ...

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Three powerful baby boomer women --- journalist Maria Shriver, playwright Eve Ensler, and historian Julieanna Richardson --- speak about their personal lives and the place of women in society in outtakes from American Masters: The Boomer List, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Maria Shriver: Know Your ...

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began his career as a photographer and The Boomer List is the latest in the list series which he calls his "portraiture come to life," including The Black List, The Latino List, and The Out List about LBGT America. The significance of making ...

In this film outtake, the alternative medicine "guru" Deepak Chopra, M.D. (b.1947), describes his introduction to American medicine in 1970, during his first night as an intern at a New Jersey hospital. Chopra had worked as a doctor in India before immigrating to the United ...

Nineteen iconic baby boomers whose lives, careers and dreams for the future capture the zeitgeist of a generation are the subject of American Masters: The Boomer List, by filmmaker/photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (The Black List, The Latino List, The Out List). This influential generation born between ...