7.3/1059 votes#1 - Decoding Watson
Season 33 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2019
Meet James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind the double helix as he confronts his complex legacy. With unprecedented access to Watson and his family, "American Masters: Decoding Watson" explores his life, achievements, controversies and contradictions.
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8.2/1084 votes#2 - Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Season 33 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/2019
Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale. And yet, his life was complex, complicated and contradictory. Davis strove to achieve the American Dream in a time of racial prejudice and shifting political territory.
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7.4/1075 votes#3 - Charley Pride
Season 33 Episode 3 - Aired 2/22/2019
Raised in segregated Mississippi, country performer Charley Pride proves artistic expression can triumph over prejudice and injustice.
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6.7/1025 votes#4 - Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
Season 33 Episode 4 - Aired 3/1/2019
For 40 years, singer and activist Holly Near works on global social justice coalition-building in the women's and lesbian movements.
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6.9/1040 votes#5 - Joseph Pulitzer: Voice Of The People
Season 33 Episode 5 - Aired 4/12/2019
Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer becomes one of America's most feared and admired newspaper moguls and a crusader for freedom of the press.
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6.7/1030 votes#6 - Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
Season 33 Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/2019
A documentary about an important American still photographer who captured New York City in the 1960s (his work there is said to have influenced the TV show Mad Men) and later the West in Texas and Los Angeles.
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7.2/1041 votes#7 - Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life
Season 33 Episode 7 - Aired 6/14/2019
Playwright, librettist, scriptwriter and outspoken LGBTQ activist Terrence McNally has long believed in the power of the arts to transform society and make a difference. The film lifts the curtain on the life, career and inspirations of the complicated and brilliant Emmy- and four-time Tony Award-winning writer.
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7.2/1026 votes#8 - Robert Shaw -- Man of Many Voices
Season 33 Episode 8 - Aired 6/21/2019
A profile of the conductor, his work with the civil rights movement, and his musical legacy.
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8.4/1034 votes#9 - Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Season 33 Episode 9 - Aired 8/2/2019
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin whose groundbreaking work, including “The Left Hand of Darkness,” transformed American literature by bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream.
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8.2/10107 votes#10 - Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Season 33 Episode 10 - Aired 9/13/2019
American Masters and Latino Public Broadcasting’s VOCES join forces to present the first documentary about Raúl Juliá, the versatile Puerto Rican actor whose work on stage and screen took the world by storm. Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage premieres Friday, September 13, 2019 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS, pbs.org/americanmasters and the PBS Video App in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
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6.9/1088 votes#11 - Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous
Season 33 Episode 11 - Aired 10/25/2019
Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York.
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6.7/1029 votes#12 - N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear
Season 33 Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/2019
Delve into the enigmatic life and mind of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet N. Scott Momaday, best known for “House Made of Dawn” and a formative voice of the Native American Renaissance in art and literature.
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The Best Episodes of American Masters Season 33
Every episode of American Masters Season 33 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of American Masters Season 33!
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Season 33 Ratings Summary
"Decoding Watson" is the best rated episode of "American Masters" season 33. It scored 7.3/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/2019. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me".