American Masters
Season 28 Episode 3 - Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
7.4 ?
1986
Documentary
A profile of writer Alice Walker, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for her 1982 novel "The Color Purple"). Included: remarks from Walker; Danny Glover; Quincy Jones; Sapphire; Steven Spielberg; and Howard Zinn. Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar’s new documentary tells Walker’s dramatic life story with poetry and lyricism, and features new interviews with Walker, Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Gloria Steinem, Sapphire and the late Howard Zinn in one of his final interviews.
Episodes in Season 28
1
Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love
90 min
2
Salinger
90 min
3
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
90 min
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4
A Fierce Green Fire
90 min
5
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
90 min
6
Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun
90 min
7
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
90 min
8
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
90 min
9
The Boomer List
90 min
10
Bing Crosby Rediscovered
90 min
