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- At Home with Jacques Pépin
In this digital series, chef Jacques Pépin brings us into his home and teaches us many of his favorite dishes. This intimate setting is his platform for simple and instructive cooking, using inexpensive, readily available ingredients, and whatever he may have on hand.
- In The Making | Season 2
What happens when an artist holds up a mirror to the world? This documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines. Across seven episodes, meet creatives who are making work that explores and influences American culture today.
- Masters of Drag
In this digital series, New York's sweetest drag diva Peppermint tells the story of pioneering American drag artists. In the process, she demonstrates how drag is a performance art form that has thrived in this country for generations, entertaining LGBTQ+ and general audiences alike, and providing the former with an important outlet of self-expression.
- Now Streaming
A rotating selection of films currently streaming. Updated monthly.
- Unladylike2020
Illuminating the stories of extraordinary American heroines from the early years of feminism, American Masters — Unladylike2020 presents 26 digital short films featuring courageous, little-known and diverse female trailblazers from the turn of the 20th century.
- Archive Highlights
Watch curated interviews from The American Masters Digital Archive. The full collection includes over 1,000 hours of never-before-seen, raw interviews: a treasure trove of the movers and shakers of American culture, including Maya Angelou, Patti Smith, Mel Brooks, Carol Burnett, Matthew Broderick, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Dionne Warwick, Lee Grant, Sidney Lumet, Betty White and many others.
- Artists
American Masters has profiled some of the greatest American artists, sculptors, architects, photographers, and other visual artists and designers.
- Authors
American Masters has profiled some of the country's greatest authors, including novelists, playwrights, and poets.
- Entertainers
American Masters has profiled some of the country's greatest actors, comedians, producers, and filmmakers.
- In the Making | Season 1
Season 1 of this documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows eight emerging cultural icons – creators who bring insight and originality to their craft – on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines.
- LGBTQ Masters
Some of them lived their lives out and proudly, and others had more complicated feelings towards their sexual identity. These are the stories of American cultural icons who were LGBTQ.
- Musicians
From country music to jazz and classical, learn more about some of America's greatest musicians.