Eugene O'neill: A Documentary Film

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Presenting the haunting story of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, this episode of American Experience details the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped Eugene O'Neill and which he in turn struggled all his life to confront through his art. Viewers are introduced to the masterpieces O'Neill created at the very end of his career-chief among them The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night-with the aid of scenes staged especially for the program. These are performed by some of the most gifted actors working today, including Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Robert Sean Leonard, Liam Neeson, and Vanessa Redgrave
Introduction: Price of an Artist (2:16)
Three Great Plays (3:10)
Truth About Family (1:53)
Family Relationships (0:55)
Search for Meaning (1:37)
Eugene O'Neill: A Tormented Man (1:24)
Actor Christopher Plummer (2:48)
Eugene O'Neill's Parents (1:53)
House of Pain (1:13)
Tragedy of Jamie O'Neill (1:35)
Ella O'Neill's Drug Addiction (1:24)
Lonely Child (1:38)
Relationship Between Mother and Son (0:59)
Eugene O'Neill in Boarding School (1:23)
Loss of Faith (1:53)
Eugene O'Neill: A Ghost (1:10)
Reckless Life (0:47)
Eugene O'Neill at Sea (1:12)
Dark Days in Buenos Aires (2:05)
Rebirth of Eugene O'Neill (0:46)
Eugene O'Neill Escapes Into Writing (1:33)
America's First Serious Playwright (1:20)
Eugene O'Neill's Success (1:34)
Loss of Family (1:24)
Eugene O'Neill: Famous Playwright (1:38)
Eugene O'Neill Invents American Theater (1:19)
O'Neill's Pain/Characters' Pain (1:24)
Eugene O'Neill: Haunted and Fearful (1:27)
Artifice of Life (2:40)
Eugene O'Neill's Success and Flight (0:55)
Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey (2:01)
Relationships (1:37)
Eugene O'Neill's Artistic Aim (1:51)
Eugene O'Neill's Comedy (0:59)
Eugene O'Neill's Inward Retreat (1:41)
Eugene O'Neill and Nobel Prize (0:34)
Later Years of a Writer (1:31)
Eugene O'Neill: Failing Health (2:06)
Eugene O'Neill: One Million Words (1:20)
Birth of Two Greatest Plays (1:47)
Al Pacino: "The Iceman Cometh" (1:53)
"The Iceman Cometh": Nihilism (1:33)
Theme of "The Iceman Cometh" (1:00)
Man and His Illusions (1:16)
Dark Secrets (3:22)
Confession (1:33)
Embrace the Illusion (1:32)
Play About One Family (2:23)
Literary Catharsis (1:10)
Family Trapped by Its Past (1:22)
Dramatic Contraction (1:33)
Self-Hatred: Light Within (2:27)
Father's Remorse in "Long Day's Journey into Night" (5:02)
Sins of the Father (0:52)
Family: Never-Ending Battle (1:33)
Characterization of Ella O'Neill (4:08)
Play About the Truth (1:57)
O'Neill's Death Sentence (1:12)
"A Moon for the Misbegotten" (1:34)
Redemptive Quality of Art (1:32)
O'Neill's Wife Revives His Plays (1:15)
Eugene O'Neill's Timeless Monuments of Art (1:56)
O'Neill's Sense of Connectedness (3:51)
Poetry of Writing (1:43)
Eugene O'Neill: America's Shakespeare (1:38)"

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