Series

American Masters 1986

Created by Susan Lacy

  • Documentary
  • 90 min episodes
  • 40 seasons
  • 315 episodes
  • Returning
  • TV-14

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.

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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.

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  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • sparerichly built
  • contemplativerelentless

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