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Filmmaker Madison Thomas shares her experience directing American Masters - "Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry it On." I now find myself saying on a regular basis, “What would Buffy do?” My name is Madison Thomas. I’m a filmmaker based out of Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...

"I always wanna be offering people stuff that they won't get somewhere else," says Sainte-Marie of the song "Until It's Time For You To Go," written from a woman's perspective allowing her lover to leave. Writer Andrea Warner calls the song "the actual first feminist ...

When Jack Nitzsche became stumped while scoring the film "An Officer and a Gentleman," he turned to his friend Buffy Sainte-Marie for help. Buffy played him the melody for her song "Up Where We Belong," which took on "a life of its own." The iconic ...

The iconic anti-war song "Universal Soldier" was written with the question on Buffy Sainte-Marie's mind: "Who's responsible for war?" In Sainte-Marie's frank answer, we all have an individual responsibility.

When Buffy Sainte-Marie was asked to play a lead role in the TV series "The Virginian," she also insisted that all of the Indigenous parts be played by Indigenous people—sparking a revolutionary conversation on representation that we are still having today.

Writer, director, musician and comic book creator John Carpenter is one of the most prominent names in the modern-day horror genre. Among his eclectic filmography, Carpenter directed and co-wrote the landmark slasher film "Halloween" in 1978 with a $300,000 budget, which continues to fill theaters ...

Actor Lon Chaney tested the boundaries of on-screen performance, pushing the limitations of his body and innovating with prosthetics. While German expressionist classics like “Nosferatu” defined early horror cinema, Chaney’s various incarnations left America’s imprint on the genre. His characters mark some of the earliest ...

When "The Twilight Zone" first premiered on CBS in 1959, audiences were not yet accustomed to cerebral and mature science fiction. Created by Rod Serling, "The Twilight Zone" challenged expectations, audiences and censors by treating science fiction as a serious genre, highlighting its potential for ...

Explore Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow's impact on American literature and how he navigated through issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience. Featuring interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and others.

Dick Cavett was writing for Jack Paar on "The Tonight Show" when he met Groucho Marx at the funeral of playwright George S. Kaufman in 1961. It was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until Groucho’s death in 1977. When Cavett made the transition ...