American Masters

Discover insightful profiles of important figures in America's artistic and cultural life.

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American Masters, committed to producing comprehensive film biographies about the broad cast of characters who comprise our cultural history.

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  • Dorothea Lange's Museum of Modern Art Retrospective

  • Dorothea Lange's Portrait Studio in San Francisco

  • Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning - Preview

  • Lange's Eye on The Great Depression and Sharecropping

  • Lange's Photos of the Internment of Japanese-Americans

  • Web Exclusive: Japanese-American Internees Today

  • Tanaquil Le Clercq in Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun

  • Western Symphony: One of Tanaquil Le Clercq's Last Dances

  • Polio and Iron Lungs in the 1950s. Le Clercq's Illness.

  • Tanaquil Le Clercq, the Ideal Balanchine Dancer

  • Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun - Trailer

  • George Plimpton at the Helm of The Paris Review