Discover an international singer who captivated royalty in Europe and defied the conscience of 1939 America. Watch rare archival footage and hear audio recordings exploring her life and career from the Metropolitan Opera to the State Department.

The astonishing and heartwarming story of George Lee, a pioneering Asian dancer who originated a featured role in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker 70 years ago as a teenage immigrant from China.

Take an intimate look at the life and career of actress Marlee Matlin as she shares her story.

Max Roach, the groundbreaking jazz pioneer and virtuoso composer. Whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him.

Explore the story of writer Julia Alvarez, who blazed a trail for a generation of Latino authors.

The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), a life filled with drama, adversity and triumph, is one of the great stories of the modern era. Despite poverty, childhood rheumatic fever that damaged his heart and an explosion in his youth that cost him his left hand, Orozco persisted in his wish to become an artist.

Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century.

People worldwide have seen the Disney animated classic Bambi and been deeply moved by it, but few can tell you the name of the artist behind the film.

AMERICAN MASTERS explores the life and work of cartoonist Art Spiegelman, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust.

Take an intimate look into the life of Liza Minnelli, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret. Following in the footsteps of her mother Judy Garland, Minnelli used her boundless raw talent to build her own legacy in showbiz.