American Masters: Season 20
Season 20 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Masters Season 19.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 20 Progress Shield
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
May 10, 2006 · 90 min
John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way Am
The World of Nat King Cole
May 17, 2006 · 90 min
Archival performances, home movies and interviews illustrate singer Nat King Cole's achievements during a 30-year music and television career.
Woodie Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Jul 12, 2006 · 90 min
The life and times of the hard traveling music-man Woody Guthrie.
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
Jul 26, 2006 · 90 min
Walter Cronkite was the man who gave us the news for two tumultuous decades in the late 20th century. As historian, journalist and author David Halberstam says in praise of the gre
Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 1)
Sep 20, 2006 · 113 min
Ric Burns' absorbing profile of Andy Warhol (1928-87) traces the pop icon's rise from poverty to an artist who, said art critic Dave Hickey, “changed the world”.
Andy Warhol: A Documentary (Part 2)
Sep 21, 2006 · 115 min
Ric Burns' absorbing profile of Andy Warhol (1928-87) traces the pop icon's rise from poverty to an artist who, said art critic Dave Hickey, “changed the world”.
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Sep 27, 2006 · 86 min
Frank Gehry loves to sketch. It is the beginning of his architectural process. From Gehry’s sketches flow the models, one after another, each a refinement, that will eventually bec
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Jan 3, 2007 · 79 min
This film traces the artistic self-realization of Annie Leibovitz, from childhood through the death of her beloved friend, Susan Sontag, and includes snippets of Leibovitz's last v