Director Robert Trachtenberg worked with the Bing Crosby estate to bring a wealth of audio recordings and images to the public from the first time. In this interview he speaks about the challenge of presenting the man who down-played how hard he worked to become ...
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders began his career as a photographer and The Boomer List is the latest in the list series which he calls his "portraiture come to life," including The Black List, The Latino List, and The Out List about LBGT America. The significance of making ...
See Dyanna Taylor at work on the film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, which she directed, produced, wrote and narrated. Taylor is the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer/social scientist Paul Schuster Taylor, and a Peabody- and five-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer.
Artistic Inspiration American Masters -- Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun illuminates the exceptional qualities of "Tanny" in life and in dance. It portrays her artistic triumph and her personal tragedy. Through her own words and through the people who knew and loved her, ...
Luke Poling and Tom Bean talk about collaborative documentary filmmaking, from archival research to editing. Poling and Bean are co-directors, co-writers and co-producers of "Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself," premiering nationally Friday, May 16, 9-10:30 p.m. on PBS.
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Pratibha Parmar is the writer, director and producer of Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth. This first film biography about writer and activist Alice Walker tells Walker’s dramatic life story with poetry and lyricism. Watch Interview with Pratibha Parmar Parmar was drawn to the "incredibly compelling ...
Filmmaker Shane Salerno dedicated ten years of his life to answering three questions about the elusive, yet famous writer, J.D. Salinger. In this interview with the writer and director of Salinger, find out what inspired Salerno, and what it took to find the answers. The ...
Bob Smeaton, director of Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin', talks about the making of the documentary film.
Writer, director, producer and editor Robert Trachtenberg talks Mel Brooks: Make A Noise with AMERICAN MASTERS.
An interview with Philip Roth: Unmasked co-writer and co-director William Karel, a French film director and author known for his historical and political documentaries, including Dark Side of the Moon, Looking for Nicolas Sarkozy, The World According to Bush, 1929, Poison d'avril, La fille du ...
