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19.7
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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18.5
Judy Garland: By Myself
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132
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4.9
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
8.3
91
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25.7
Woody Allen: A Documentary
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383
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18.1
None Without Sin
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52
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18.3
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
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26.5
Johnny Carson: King of Late Night
8.1
54
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15.4
Finding Lucy
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22.4
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
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121
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16.1
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
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7.3
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
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15.3
On Cukor
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2.2
Directed by William Wyler
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14.3
Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For
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11.1
Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice
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7.1
Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
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Inventing David Geffen
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13.6
Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer
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15.5
Bob Marley: Rebel Music
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15.8
Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
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4.8
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
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2.9
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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11.4
Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'
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19.5
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
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20.4
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
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1.10
Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
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20.3
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
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5.5
Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter
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23.1
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
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23.7
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
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18.8
Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef
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13.5
The Lives of Lillian Hellman
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22.2
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
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14.1
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
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10.3
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
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16.8
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
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21.6
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
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5.1
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
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11.3
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde
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12.3
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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15.1
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
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3.8
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
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12.2
Vaudeville
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24.3
The Doors: When You're Strange
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15.6
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
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8.2
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
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22
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13.1
Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
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39
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23.4
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
7.6
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2.5
George Gershwin Remembered
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15.7
Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
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24.1
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
7.5
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25.2
Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & the Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
7.5
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6.9
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
7.5
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3.4
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul
7.5
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6.4
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
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24.7
LennoNYC
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20.6
Andy Warhol: A Documentary
7.5
201
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20.8
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
7.5
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16.5
Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records
7.5
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13.7
Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
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16.3
Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds
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23.3
Hollywood Chinese
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12.4
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart
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24.6
A Letter to Elia
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12.1
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
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21.9
Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character
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4.5
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
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4.4
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
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Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
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19.1
James Dean: Sense Memories
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Les Paul: Chasing Sound
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Good Ol' Charles Schulz
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Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind 'Little Women'
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The Architect & the Painter: The Creative Lives of Ray & Charles Eames
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
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Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
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Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
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Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself
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10.1
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
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The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
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Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind
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Ray Charles: The Genius of Soul
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Miracle on 44th Street: A Portrait of the Actors Studio
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
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Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
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John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
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Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues
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Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
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A Duke Named Ellington
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Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul
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Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
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Danny Kaye: A Legacy of Laughter
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You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
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Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
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Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
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Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
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Robert Capa: In Love and War
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Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
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The Education of Gore Vidal
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Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
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Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'
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Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
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Bob Newhart: Unbuttoned
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Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre
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Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
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A. Einstein: How I See the World
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Willie Nelson: Still Is Still Moving
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6.6
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12.6
Alexander Calder
6.5
11
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6.5
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5.7
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
6.5
39
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6.5
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24.2
I.M. Pei: Building China Modern
6.3
5
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6.3
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17.6
Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied
6.3
29
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6.3
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19.6
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
6.2
32
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6.2
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16.2
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
6.2
17
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6.2
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5.3
Martin Scorsese Directs
6.2
50
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6.2
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26.3
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & to Kill a Mockingbird
6.2
9
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10
6.2
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6.5
Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days
6.0
9
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6.0
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16.6
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
6.0
12
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6.0
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2.10
Buster Keaton: Hard Act to Follow
5.9
7
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5.9
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11.5
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
5.9
7
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5.9
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2.3
Rubinstein Remembered
5.8
5
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5.8
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20.2
The World of Nat King Cole
5.7
13
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5.7
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13.4
Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
5.6
6
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5.6
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21.1
Novel Reflections: The American Dream
5.6
7
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5.6
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18.2
James Brown: Soul Survivor
5.4
21
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5.4
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7.2
George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic
5.2
114
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5.2
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5.8
John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
4.5
12
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10.5
Nichols and May: Take Two
4.4
15
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15.2
Mailer on Mailer
2.6
5
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Unrated Episodes
#
Episode
1.2
Philip Johnson, Self Portrait
1.3
Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
2.4
Nik and Murray
2.6
Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa
2.7
The Negro Ensemble Company
2.8
Unanswered Prayers: The Life and Times of Truman Capote
3.1
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
3.5
Rivera in America
4.1
Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
4.3
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
5.2
John Cassavetes
5.6
John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen
6.6
Menuhin: A Family Portrait
6.7
Robert Motherwell and the New York School
9.1
Rediscovering Will Rogers
9.3
Plácido Domingo: A Musical Life
10.2
William Styron: The Way of the Writer
12.5
Don Hewitt: 90 Minutes on 60 Minutes
13.2
Episode #13.2
14.2
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
14.4
Episode #14.4
14.6
Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso
16.4
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
17.2
Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces
17.3
Juilliard
18.4
Balanchine
18.6
Henry Luce & Time-Life's America: A Vision of Empire
19.3
Episode #19.3
21.4
David Hockney: The Colors of Music
21.5
John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature
21.7
Orozco: Man on Fire
22.1
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
23.2
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
23.6
Trumbo
24.5
Cachao: Uno Mas
24.8
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
25.3
John Muir in the New World
25.4
American Maestro: James Levine
25.5
Episode #25.5
25.6
Bill T. Jones
26.1
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
26.2
Cab Calloway: Sketches
27.1
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll
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Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
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Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
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The Day Carl Sandburg Died
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Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait