American Masters

- Season 5

(1989)

Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre profiles the career of celebrated director/producer Harold Clurman.

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Home movies, film clips, and interviews provide insight into the remarkable life and career of jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong.

Profiles the life and work of author/civil rights activist, James Baldwin.

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The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village -- all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith's stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue taken from Smith's diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work ...

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.