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Season 20 Episode 14 - Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country’s leading playwrights – and one of its fiercest moral critics. In the film Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock (P.O.V.’s Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision) followed Kushner for three tumultuous years, from Sept. 11, 2001 to the 2004 presidential election, to delve into the passions that keep him reaching for the great American play. Actors Marcia Gay Harden, Meryl Streep, Tonya Pinkins and Emma Thompson, directors Mike Nichols and George C. Wolf, and writer/artist Maurice Sendak are seen collaborating with Kushner on such landmark works as Angels in America; Caroline, or Change; and Homebody/Kabul. (packaged to 116:46)
Episodes in Season 20
Rain in a Dry Land
60 min
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
60 min
Standing Silent Nation
60 min
Revolution '67
60 min
The Chances of the World Changing
60 min
Prison Town, USA
60 min
Following Sean
60 min
Arctic Son
60 min
Libby, Montana
60 min
Made in L.A.
60 min
The Camden 28
60 min
Lumo
60 min
49 Up
60 min
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
60 min
