Episode List
Current Episode (aired May 20, 2013)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
In 60-years in show business, he has earned more awards than any other living entertainer. A comedy giant of our time, Melvin Kaminsky developed his aggressively funny personality on the streets of Brooklyn, and the ...
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Season 9
Nov. 30, 1994
Rediscovering Will Rogers
Biography of Will Rogers, who, during the generation before World War Two, was one of America's best known journalists, movie actors, stage performers and international ambassadors of good will. The story is told through interviews, photographs, newsreel clips and excerpts from feature films in which he starred. Narrated by Edwin Newman.
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Dec. 19, 1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of _Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)_ ,Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, _Night of the Iguana, The (1964)_ , and _Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV)_ . Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' , and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew ...
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Mar. 22, 1995
Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
Comprised of interviews with Poe scholars, dramatic sequences, and an adaptation of "The Cask of Amontillado", this documentary covers the life of Edgar Allen Poe thoroughly from a number of perspectives.
