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In this film outtake, actor Kim Cattrall (b. 1956) speaks about risk and freedom, particularly after her starring role in the HBO series Sex and the City. Early in her career, she had sought advice from the great Jack Lemmon, with whom Cattrall appeared in ...

Baby boomer Erin Brockovich (b. 1960) is an advocate for communities and people whose health is adversely affected by environmental pollution, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Although she herself is a famous advocate, in this film outtake she warns that there is no single-person solution to ...

"Every audition I would go to, you know, was either for a drug dealer, a murderer, or a janitor. It'd be me, Benicio del Toro, Luis Guzmán, Benjamin Bratt," says an exasperated John Leguizamo in this film excerpt. The actor and comedian, acclaimed for his ...

"Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life—into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, ...

The U.S. War Relocation Authority hired photographer Dorothea Lange to document the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II. It horrified her, but she felt it was important to record what has happening. "This is what we did. How did it happen? ...

Photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr. found surviving Japanese-Americans who were photographed by Dorothea Lange and others as they were taken to internment camps during World War II. This forced relocation process was led by the U.S. War Relocation Authority in 1942. Kitagaki took portraits of these ...

See Dyanna Taylor at work on the film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, which she directed, produced, wrote and narrated. Taylor is the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer/social scientist Paul Schuster Taylor, and a Peabody- and five-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer.

Photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband were the first to witness and to understand the causes of the huge migration to California in the 1930s: families were escaping the Dust Bowl. In this excerpt, Lange describes photographing the first car arriving in California. American Masters ...

In 1919 at the age of 24, Dorothea Lange opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco, which was a success and simultaneously became a social gathering spot for artists. American Masters — Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning premieres nationwide Friday, August 29, ...

Dorothea Lange's photographed resilient men and women struggling with the Great Depression and sharecropping system. Lange tells the story of Tom Collins, the manager of "Migratory Labor Camp," whom she met. He became a character in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. American Masters: ...