American Masters's friend and colleague Gail Levin, a multiple Emmy award-winning producer and director, has passed away. Levin worked on a variety of genres and projects that ranged from original children's programming to collaborations with theater and performance artists, working closely with American Masters.
In 1948 James Baldwin left Harlem and New York for Paris, following in a long line of talented African Americans who hoped to experience life free of the terrible burden of racial prejudice and injustice.
America, in the 1960s and ‘70s, was in turmoil - the civil rights struggle, the war in Vietnam and the sexual revolution defined a nation in conflict. But, at 10:00 every Saturday night, in dorms and dens, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, ...
Philip Roth thinks the screen -- the movie screen, the TV screen, the computer screen -- will take the "serious readers" away from serious writing.
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has ...
Mel Brooks, director, producer, writer and actor, is in an elite group as one of the few entertainers to earn all four major entertainment prizes – the Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar. Learn more about Brooks' career.
JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE tells the story of the first quintessentially American dance company, the Joffrey Ballet. Founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino revolutionized American dance by combining modern with traditional ballet to create a new and daring art form. Narrated by Tony and ...
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Woody Guthrie was born on July 14th, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma. He had a voice like a long distance train heard miles away. His songs have become the folk song standards of America. Among them: "Pretty Boy Floyd," "Pastures of Plenty," "Hard Travelin'," "Deportees," "Roll ...
Production credits for the film, The Day Carl Sandburg Died.
Survey Marilyn Monroe’s life story through the many dazzling photographs of her. 8/9/2012
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