American Masters

Season 17

TV-14

Since its premiere in 1986, this Emmy-winning documentary series has presented hundreds of hours comprising profiles of outstanding American cultural artists. Past subjects have included Charlie Chaplin, Helen Hayes, pop icon Andy Warhol, singer Billie Holiday, and Composer and Conductor Leonard Bernstein.

Where to Watch American Masters • Season 17

8 Episodes

Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving
E1
Willie Nelson: Still Is Still MovingAn up-close look at the songs and lifestyle of the popular country western personality.
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
E2
Lon Chaney: A Thousand FacesA biography of the influential actor and director of silent film classics and his contributions to character expression and make-up effects.
Juilliard
E3
JuilliardA retrospective on the history and work of the famous American school for academic mastery of the performing arts.
Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution
E4
Alice Waters and her Delicious RevolutionFollow Alice Waters through a year of shopping and cooking, and discover the vision of an artist and advocate, who has taken her gift for food and turned it into consciousness about the environment, nutrition and a device for social change.
Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
E5
Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and MindThe life of the folk singer and songwriting artist and the evolution of her work over three decades.
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
E6
Muddy Waters: Can't Be SatisfiedMuddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.
Robert Capa: In Love and War
E7
Robert Capa: In Love and WarA documentary on the famous war photographer and the life he led.
The Education of Gore Vidal
E8
The Education of Gore VidalA spotlight on the eclectic and often humorous American writer and his many accomplishments.