Welcome to the new American Masters Digital Archive. Explore unreleased interviews filmed for past American Masters documentaries: 1000+ records and counting from more than 40 episodes in the series' history. Browse now for rare interviews with musicians, filmmakers, artists, historians, writers, comedians, journalists and more. Some figures in the collection include David Bowie, Patti Smith, Herbie Hancock, Gloria Steinem, Mike Nichols, Mel Brooks, Carol Burnett, Walter Cronkite, Don Rickles and Maya Angelou. Learn more about the collection here.

Now Featuring: Newly added interviews from Broadway: The American Musical (2004), a six-part series that tells the 100-year history of musical theater and the story of its relationship to 20th-century American life. Watch interviews from this collection here.