American Masters is a PBS television show which does programmes on what it judges are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States.
- Actor's Studio
- Stella Adler
- Algonquin Round Table
- Louis Armstrong
- Richard Avedon
- George Balanchine
- James Baldwin
- Lucille Ball
- Leonard Bernstein
- James Brown
- John Cage
- Alexander Calder
- Robert Capa
- Truman Capote
- John Cassavetes
- Lon Chaney
- Charlie Chaplin
- Ray Charles
- Harold Clurman
- Aaron Copland
- George Cukor
- Merce Cunningham
- Edward Curtis
- Placido Domingo
- Thomas Eakins
- Clint Eastwood
- Albert Einstein
- Duke Ellington
- Ralph Ellison
- Ella Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Milos Forman
- Aretha Franklin
- Buckminster Fuller
- Judy Garland
- Frank Gehry
- George Gershwin
- Allen Ginsberg
- Lillian Gish
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Benny Goodman
- Martha Graham
- D.W. Griffith
- Group Theatre
- Dashiell Hammett
- John Hammond
- Helen Hayes
- Lillian Hellman
- Don Hewitt
- Al Hirschfeld
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Billie Holiday
- Lena Horne
- Jasper Johns
- Philip Johnson
- Quincy Jones
- Juilliard School
- Danny Kaye
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- Gene Kelly
- Andre Kertesz
- James Levine
- Harold Lloyd
- Murray Louis
- George Lucas
- Henry Luce
- Norman Mailer
- Bob Marley
- Elaine May
- Sanford Meisner
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Arthur Miller
- Joni Mitchell
- Robert Motherwell
- Edward Murrow
- Negro Ensemble Company
- Willie Nelson
- Mike Nichols
- Alwin Nikolais
- Isamu Noguchi
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Eugene O'Neill
- Jack Paar
- Charlie Parker
- Gregory Peck
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Sidney Poitier
- Cole Porter
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Man Ray
- Lou Reed
- Frederic Remington
- Diego Rivera
- Paul Robeson
- Norman Rockwell
- Richard Rodgers
- Will Rogers
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Mort Sahl
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Waldo Salt
- Martin Scorsese
- David O. Selznick
- Maurice Sendak
- Rod Serling
- Neil Simon
- Paul Simon
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- W. Eugene Smith
- The Source
- Isaac Stern
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Preston Sturges
- William Styron
- Sun Records
- Paul Taylor
- Vaudeville
- Sarah Vaughan
- Gore Vidal
- Andy Warhol
- Alice Waters
- Muddy Waters
- Billy Wilder
- Hank Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- William Wyler