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Preview of Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’
2:04
Archival performance footage and interviews with Hendrix and musicians on his showmanship.
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love
2:35
The awards the composer and conductor won in his career are matched by admiration for him.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Preview
0:30
Premieres Friday, February 22, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Check your local listings.
American Masters 2014 Season Trailer
0:33
Premieres include Salinger, the series' 200th episode, and Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.
American Masters: 2000-2013 Highlights
3:13
Judy Garland, I.M. Pei, Edward S. Curtis, and Jimi Hendrix are among the diverse talents.
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Preview
0:34
The film exploring the man and the message of his music airs Monday, December 27, 2010.
A Letter To Elia - Preview
0:20
Scorsese's portrait of Elia Kazan premieres Monday, October 4, 2010 at 9 p.m. (ET)
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1:57
An encore of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (original broadcast August 14, 1989)
How Charlie "YardBird" Parker got his nickname
1:51
The story of how Charlie Parker's nickname "Yardbird" came to be.
Alice Waters shares her Inspiring Woman: Michelle Obama
0:29
Alice Waters shares her Inspiring Woman: Michelle Obama.
Outtakes, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'
13:58
Louisa May Alcott's reputation as a spinster masked a literary double life.
Flannery
1:54
Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose fiction was unlike anything published before.
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