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American Masters Season 17 Episodes
Season 17 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving
Wed, Oct 2, 200284 mins
He's been instrumental in shaping both country and pop music, yet his appeal crosses all social and economic lines. Sometimes he's called an outlaw, though it is Willie Nelson who brings us together.
Episode 2
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Wed, Oct 30, 2002
For Lon Chaney, the art of acting was the art of continual transformation. His gift for playing a vast array of characters even made him the subject of a popular joke at the time: "Don't step on that spider. It might be Lon Chaney!"
Episode 3
Juilliard
The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory located in New York City. The school trains about 850 students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leading drama, music and dance schools.
Episode 4
Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
Tue, Mar 18, 200353 mins
Follow Alice Waters through a year of shopping and cooking, and discover the vision of an artist and advocate, who has taken her gift for food and turned it into consciousness about the environment, nutrition and a device for social change.
Episode 5
Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
Wed, Apr 2, 200392 mins
A profile of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, and how her music evolved from personal folk into pop, jazz and avant-garde.
Episode 6
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
Wed, Apr 23, 200351 mins
Muddy Waters is the archetypal blues-man. He was raised as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play an acoustic guitar. He went to Chicago in 1943, and the band he assembled established the electric blues sound.
Episode 7
Robert Capa: In Love and War
Wed, May 28, 200390 mins
A documentary about the life of famed war photographer Robert Capa.
Episode 8
The Education of Gore Vidal
Wed, Jul 30, 200384 mins
A contrarian and wickedly funny man, "The Education of Gore Vidal" explores Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his cliff-side villa in Ravello, Italy.
