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American Masters
📅 1986
⭐ 7.2
🕐 90 min
US
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American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
Seasons & Episodes
E1
Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'
1986-06-23
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E2
Philip Johnson, Self Portrait
1986-06-30
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E3
Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
1986-07-07
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E4
The Unknown Chaplin (1)
1986-07-14
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E5
The Unknown Chaplin (2)
1986-07-21
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E6
The Unknown Chaplin (3)
1986-07-28
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E7
Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
1986-08-04
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E8
James Levine: A Life in Music
1986-08-11
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E9
Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait
1986-08-18
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E10
Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
1986-08-25
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E11
Georgia O'Keeffe
1986-09-01
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E12
Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
1986-09-08
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E1
Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
1987-07-06
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E2
Directed by William Wyler
1987-07-13
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E3
Rubinstein Remembered
1987-07-20
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E4
Nik and Murray
1987-07-27
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E5
George Gershwin Remembered
1987-08-24
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E6
Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa
1987-08-31
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E7
The Negro Ensemble Company
1987-09-14
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E8
Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote
1987-09-21
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E9
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
1987-09-28
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E10
Buster Keaton: Hard Act to Follow
1987-11-18
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E1
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988-07-11
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E2
A Duke Named Ellington
1988-07-18
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E3
Andre Kertesz of the Cities
1988-08-08
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E4
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
1988-08-22
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E5
Rivera in America
1988-08-29
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E6
Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl
1988-09-05
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E7
Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs
1989-03-08
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E8
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989-06-26
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E1
Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
1989-07-03
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E2
Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
1989-07-10
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E3
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
1989-07-31
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E4
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989-08-14
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E5
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
1989-08-17
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E6
Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
1989-09-11
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E7
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
1989-09-18
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E8
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
1989-09-25
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E9
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
1989-11-15
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E10
Milos Forman: Portrait
1989-12-20
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E1
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
1990-07-02
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E2
John Cassavetes
1990-07-09
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E3
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990-07-16
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E4
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
1990-07-23
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E5
Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter
1990-07-30
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E6
John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
1990-08-20
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E7
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990-08-27
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E8
John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
1990-09-17
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E1
Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre
1991-07-01
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E2
Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actor's Studio
1991-07-08
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E3
A. Einstein: How I See the World
1991-07-22
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E4
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
1991-07-29
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E5
Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
1991-08-05
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E6
Menuhin: A Family Portrait
1991-08-12
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E7
Robert Motherwell and the New York School
1991-08-26
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E8
Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
1992-01-03
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E9
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1992-05-01
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E1
Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
1993-03-14
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E2
George Lucas: Heroes, Myths & Magic
1993-03-17
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E3
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
1993-03-24
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E1
Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
1993-12-08
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E2
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
1994-05-13
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E1
Rediscovering Will Rogers
1994-11-30
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E2
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19
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E3
Placido Domingo: A Musical Life
1995-02-15
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E4
Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
1995-03-22
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E1
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995-11-29
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E2
William Styron: The Way of the Writer
1996-01-22
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E3
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
1996-01-24
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E4
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
1996-04-10
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E5
Nichols and May: Take Two
1996-05-22
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E1
Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice
1996-11-25
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E2
Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter
1996-12-10
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E3
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
1997-04-09
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E4
Jack Paar: As I Was Saying
1997-05-07
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E5
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
1997-06-25
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E1
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1997-09-17
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E2
Vaudeville
1997-11-26
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E3
Billy Wilder: the Human Comedy
1998-02-04
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E4
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
1998-04-29
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E5
Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes
1998-05-01
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E6
Alexander Calder
1998-06-17
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E1
Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
1998-10-28
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E2
The Line King: Al Hirschfeld
1999-01-06
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E3
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999-02-24
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E4
Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
1999-04-07
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E5
The Lives of Lillian Hellman
1999-06-30
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E6
Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer
1999-06-30
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E7
Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
1999-08-18
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E1
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999-11-01
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E2
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
1999-11-24
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E3
Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
1999-12-08
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E4
Paul Taylor: Dancemaker
2000-01-05
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E5
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000-02-02
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E6
Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
2000-04-13
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E7
The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
2000-05-31
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E1
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000-09-27
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E2
Mailer On Mailer
2000-10-04
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E3
On Cukor
2000-11-22
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E4
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000-12-03
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E5
Bob Marley: Rebel Music
2001-02-14
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E6
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
2001-04-09
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E7
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
2001-04-16
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E8
Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
2001-04-23
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E1
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001-10-07
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E2
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
2001-10-14
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E3
Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds
2001-10-21
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E4
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001-11-18
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E5
Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records
2001-11-28
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E6
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
2001-12-16
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E7
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
2002-02-19
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E8
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002-03-01
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E1
Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving
2002-10-02
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E2
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2002-10-30
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E3
Juilliard
2003-01-29
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E4
Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution
2003-03-19
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E5
Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
2003-04-02
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E6
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
2003-04-23
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E7
Robert Capa: In Love and War
2003-05-28
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E8
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003-07-30
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E1
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist
2003-09-03
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E2
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003-10-29
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E3
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004-01-07
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E4
Balanchine
2004-01-14
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E5
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004-02-25
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E6
Henry Luce and Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire
2004-04-28
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E7
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
2004-06-23
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E8
Julia! America's Favorite Chef
2004-08-18
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E1
James Dean: Sense Memories
2005-05-11
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E2
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
2005-06-29
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E3
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
2005-07-13
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E4
Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
2005-07-20
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E5
Willa Cather: The Road is All
2005-09-07
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E6
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
2005-09-14
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E7
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (1)
2005-09-26
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E8
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (2)
2005-09-27
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E1
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
2006-05-10
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E2
The World of Nat King Cole
2006-05-17
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E3
Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006-07-12
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E4
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
2006-07-19
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E5
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
2006-07-26
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E6
Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 1)
2006-09-20
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E7
Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 2)
2006-09-21
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E8
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006-09-27
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E9
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007-01-03
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E1
Novel Reflections on the American Dream
2007-04-04
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E2
Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
2007-04-11
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E3
Les Paul: Chasing Sound
2007-07-11
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E4
David Hockney: The Colors of Music
2007-07-18
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E5
John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature
2007-07-25
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E6
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
2007-09-12
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E7
Orozco: Man of Fire
2007-09-19
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E8
Good Ol' Charles Schulz
2007-10-29
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E9
Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
2007-11-05
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E1
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2008-02-27
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E2
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008-04-09
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E3
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
2008-05-07
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E4
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (1923-1935)
2008-09-23
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E5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)
2008-09-23
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E6
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: A New Reality (1950-1970)
2008-09-24
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E7
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: Woodstock Notions (1970-1989)
2008-09-24
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E8
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story: The Big Tent (1980-Present)
2008-09-25
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E9
The Brothers Warner
2008-09-25
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E1
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
2009-02-18
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E2
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
2009-04-08
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E3
Hollywood Chinese
2009-05-27
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E4
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
2009-06-10
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E5
Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
2009-07-01
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E6
Trumbo
2009-09-02
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E7
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009-10-14
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E8
Louisa May Alcott: the Woman Behind 'Little Women'
2009-12-28
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E1
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010-01-11
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E2
I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
2010-03-31
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E3
The Doors: When You're Strange
2010-05-12
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E4
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
2010-06-21
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E5
Cachao: Uno Más
2010-09-20
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E6
A Letter to Elia
2010-10-04
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E7
Lennon NYC
2010-11-22
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E8
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
2010-12-27
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E1
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011-01-12
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E2
Troubadors: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
2011-03-02
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E3
John Muir in the New World
2011-04-18
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E4
James Levine: America's Maestro
2011-06-01
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E5
Pearl Jam Twenty
2011-10-21
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E6
Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
2011-11-11
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E7
Woody Allen: A Documentary (1)
2011-11-20
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E8
Woody Allen: A Documentary (2)
2011-11-21
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E9
Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011-12-29
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E1
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2012-01-23
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E2
Cab Calloway: Sketches
2012-02-27
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E3
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
2012-04-02
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E4
Harper Lee: Hey, Boo
2012-04-02
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E5
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
2012-05-14
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E6
The Day Carl Sandburg Died
2012-09-24
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E7
Inventing David Geffen
2012-11-20
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E8
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
2012-12-28
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E1
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
2013-02-22
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E2
Philip Roth: Unmasked
2013-03-29
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E3
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013-05-20
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E4
Billie Jean King
2013-09-10
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E5
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013-11-05
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E1
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love
2013-12-27
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E2
Salinger
2014-01-21
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E3
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2014-02-07
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E4
A Fierce Green Fire
2014-04-22
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E5
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
2014-05-16
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E6
Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
2014-06-20
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E7
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
2014-08-29
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E8
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
2014-09-23
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E9
The Boomer List
2014-09-23
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E10
Bing Crosby Rediscovered
2014-12-02
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E1
Ricky Jay: Deceptive Practice
2015-01-23
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E2
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015-02-20
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E3
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
2015-04-16
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E4
American Ballet Theatre: A History
2015-05-15
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E5
Harper Lee
2015-07-10
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E6
Althea
2015-09-04
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E7
Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey
2015-09-18
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E8
The Women's List
2015-09-25
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E1
Mike Nichols
2016-01-29
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E2
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
2016-02-12
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E3
Carole King: Natural Woman
2016-02-19
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E4
Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
2016-02-26
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E5
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
2016-03-04
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E6
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2016-05-03
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E7
The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
2016-05-27
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E8
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016-10-25
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E9
Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future
2016-12-27
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E1
By Sidney Lumet
2017-01-03
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E2
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2017-02-21
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E3
Patsy Cline
2017-03-01
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E4
James Beard: America’s First Foodie
2017-05-19
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E5
Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft
2017-05-26
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E6
Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny
2017-09-01
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E7
Tyrus
2017-09-08
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E8
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017-10-30
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E9
Inspiring Woman Web Series
2017-11-08
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E10
This is Bob Hope
2017-11-13
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E1
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
2018-01-19
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E2
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018-05-18
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E3
Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived”
2018-07-23
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E4
Artists Flight: Eva Hesse
2018-08-31
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E5
Artists Flight: Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray
2018-09-07
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E6
Andrew Wyeth
2018-09-07
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E7
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2018-09-14
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E8
Itzhak Perlman
2018-10-14
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E1
Decoding Watson
2019-01-02
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E2
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
2019-02-19
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E3
Charley Pride
2019-02-22
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E4
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
2019-03-01
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E5
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice Of The People
2019-04-12
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E6
Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
2019-04-19
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E7
Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
2019-06-14
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E8
Robert Shaw -- Man of Many Voices
2019-06-21
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E9
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
2019-08-02
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E10
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019-09-13
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E11
Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
2019-10-25
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E12
N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear
2019-11-18
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E1
Miles Davis Birth of the Cool
2020-03-03
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E2
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
2020-06-16
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E3
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2020-06-01
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E4
Unladylike2020: The Changemakers
2020-07-10
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E5
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
2020-10-20
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E6
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
2020-10-23
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E7
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
2020-12-04
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E8
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
2020-12-29
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E1
How It Feels To Be Free
2021-01-18
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E2
Flannery
2021-03-23
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E3
Twyla Moves
2021-03-26
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E4
Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
2021-04-02
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E5
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
2021-04-09
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E6
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
2021-05-03
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E7
Ballerina Boys
2021-06-04
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E8
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
2021-07-27
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E9
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021-10-05
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E10
Becoming Helen Keller
2021-10-19
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E1
Ailey
2022-01-11
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E2
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
2022-02-08
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E3
Waterman – Duke: Ambassador of Aloha
2022-05-10
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E4
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2022-06-03
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E5
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
2022-06-14
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E6
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2022-11-22
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E7
The Adventures of Saul Bellow
2022-12-12
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E8
Groucho & Cavett
2022-12-27
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E1
Roberta Flack
2023-01-24
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E2
Dr. Tony Fauci
2023-03-21
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E3
In the Making
2023-03-24
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E4
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023-05-16
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E5
Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
2023-06-02
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E6
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2023-09-15
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E7
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
2023-09-22
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E8
A Song for Cesar
2023-09-29
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E9
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023-10-06
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E1
HOPPER: An American Love Story
2024-01-02
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E2
Moynihan
2024-03-29
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E3
The Incomparable Mr. Buckley
2024-04-02
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E4
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024-08-28
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E5
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined
2024-09-17
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E6
Renegades: Daniel K. Inouye
2024-10-08
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E7
Brenda Lee: Rockin' Around
2024-12-16
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E1
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
2025-02-21
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E2
LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
2025-04-01
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E3
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
2025-04-15
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E4
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025-06-20
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E5
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
2025-06-27
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E6
Marcella
2025-07-11
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E7
Marlee Matlin Not Alone Anymore
2025-10-15
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E8
Starring Dick Van Dyke
2025-12-12
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E1
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
2026-01-27
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E2
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
2026-02-14
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E3
Bella! This Woman's Place Is in the House
2026-03-17
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