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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

The Character of Jo March

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 For many girls, Little Women is a reading experience so stirring and lasting in impact that as adults they name their ...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'

Director’s Statement

Special encore broadcast airing May 20 in honor of “Little Women on Masterpiece” and “The Great American Read” on PBS Originally aired in 2009 If you met her, you might think Louisa May Alcott was a contemporary. The challenge of Louisa May Alcott: The Woman ...

Sam Cooke

Production Credits

Produced & Directed by John Antonelli Co-Producer D. Channsin Berry Director of Photography James Iacona Editor Eli Olson Writer Noland Walker Executive Producer Avon Kirkland Associate Producer Rick Roper Additional Editing Todd Miro Will Parrinello Kenji Yamamoto Additional Photography Will Parrinello Post Supervision Quinn Costello ...

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

How Sweet the Sound

THIRTEEN’s American Masters explores fifty years of folk legend and human rights activist Joan Baez in Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, airing October 14 on PBS. Watch a Preview Features rare performance footage and candid interviews with David Crosby, Bob Dylan, ex-husband David Harris, ...

Joan Baez 1973

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

About Joan Baez

The year 2008 was a landmark year for Joan Baez, marking 50 years since she began her legendary residency at Boston’s famed Club 47. She remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable—marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with ...

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

Essay by Filmmaker Mary Wharton

By Mary Wharton, Photos by James Fideler Mary Wharton showing footage to Joan Baez in her dressing room after a shoot. Growing up in the 1970’s, I was mostly aware of Joan Baez from her hits of that decade, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie ...

Joan Baez 1963

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

Fifty Years of Joan Baez

In the summer of 1958, Joan Chandos Baez, a 17-year old high school graduate (by the skin of her teeth) moved with her family — her parents Albert and Joan, older sister Pauline and younger sister Mimi — from Palo Alto to Boston. They drove ...

Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes

About Don Hewitt

In 1968, CBS News forever changed the face of broadcast journalism with the premiere of 60 MINUTES. It was a revolution in television programming created by veteran newsman Don Hewitt (1922 - 2009). 60 MINUTES was the first news program to break into the Neilsen's ...

Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo: Trumbo

About the Film

American Masters: Trumbo is adapted from his son Christopher’s 2003 play and based on the remarkable letters Dalton Trumbo wrote during the devastation wrought by the ‘Red Scare’ in mid-20th century. With credits for Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to his name – ...

Dalton Trumbo: Trumbo

About Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado in 1905.  Shortly thereafter his parents moved to Grand Junction, the largest town on Colorado’s western slope. After graduating from high school, his mother and father completed the westward trek which the family had begun two hundred years ...