7.4/103,290 votes#1 - Miles Davis Birth of the Cool
Season 34 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2020
Discover the man behind the legend. With full access to the Miles Davis Estate, the film features never-before-seen footage, including studio outtakes from his recording sessions, rare photos and new interviews.
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7.6/10247 votes#2 - Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Season 34 Episode 2 - Aired 6/16/2020
American Masters — Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore Mae West’s life and career as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change. West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today.
Director: Julia Marchesi, Sally Rosenthal
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8.0/1044 votes#3 - Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Season 34 Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2020
Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers and critics on an exploration of the powerful themes she confronted throughout her literary career in this artful and intimate meditation that examines the life and work of the legendary storyteller.
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6.4/1031 votes#4 - Unladylike2020: The Changemakers
Season 34 Episode 4 - Aired 7/10/2020
Mark the women’s suffrage centennial with stories of pioneering women who shaped American politics.
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7.5/1058 votes#5 - Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Season 34 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2020
Meet Walter Winchell, the newspaper columnist, radio commentator and television personality who pioneered the fast-paced, gossip-driven, politically charged journalism that dominates today. At his peak, his audience was 50 million. Stanley Tucci portrays Winchell in a new American Masters documentary.
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7.3/1030 votes#6 - Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Season 34 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2020
Explore the life and career of the Grammy-winning conductor, pianist and composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient and longtime Grammy-winning music director of the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas helped set the standard that an American orchestra should champion modern music.
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6.9/1092 votes#7 - Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Season 34 Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/2020
Explore the definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring who blazed a trail through the art scene of ‘80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. The film features previously unheard interviews with Haring.
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6.9/1036 votes#8 - Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
Season 34 Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/2020
An unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series.
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The Best Episodes of American Masters Season 34
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American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left...
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Network:PBS
Season 34 Ratings Summary
"Miles Davis Birth of the Cool" is the best rated episode of "American Masters" season 34. It scored 7.4/10 based on 3290 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/3/2020. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Mae West: Dirty Blonde".