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

Celebrate the life and career of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver.
Mike Wallace discusses the groundbreaking “60 Minutes” story on tobacco.
Actor Tyler James Williams talks about his acting process and what drives his work.
Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter Foundation, Judith and Burton Resnick, Blanche and Hayward Cirker Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, Koo and Patricia Yuen, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, Seton J. Melvin, Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Anita and Jay Kaufman, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, Ellen and James S. Marcus, The Charina Endowment Fund, The Marc Haas Foundation and public television viewers.
The mystery of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings has a new hypothesis.
It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
What did ancient people once know about these bizarre megafauna that we’ve since forgotten?
I tried to improve pykrete for months, then tossed it off a building.
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
5,700 years ago, woolly mammoths crossed a remote tundra island off Alaska.