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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

90 min

Cab Calloway: Sketches

90 min

Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel

90 min

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Harper Lee: Hey, Boo

90 min

Johnny Carson: King of Late Night

90 min

The Day Carl Sandburg Died

90 min

Inventing David Geffen

90 min

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

90 min

American Masters

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19861h 30m7.0

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Harper Lee: Hey, Boo

Season 26 · Episode 4 · Apr 2, 2012

One of the biggest bestsellers of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) is the first and only novel by a young woman named Nelle Harper Lee, who once said that she wanted to be South Alabama’s Jane Austen. Lee won the Pulitzer Prize and became a mystery when she stopped speaking to press in 1964. More than 50 years after its publication, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages worldwide, still sells nearly one million copies each year and is required reading in most American classrooms, making it quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th century. The 1962 film version, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, won a trio of Academy Awards. Harper Lee: Hey, Boo chronicles how this beloved novel came to be written, provides the context and history of the Deep South where it is set, and documents the many ways the novel has changed minds and shaped history. For teachers, students or fans of the classic, Hey, Boo enhances the experience of reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

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American Masters

TV Series

19861h 30m7.0

Documentary

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Harper Lee: Hey, Boo

Season 26 · Episode 4 · Apr 2, 2012

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