Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

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Season 1 · 3 episodesBuster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
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Episode OneE1 · 53 min

Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

Episode TwoE2 · 53 min

Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

Episode ThreeE3 · 52 min

The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the cinema.

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Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

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Episodes

Now playing
Episode OneE1 · 53 min

Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

Episode TwoE2 · 53 min

Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

Episode ThreeE3 · 52 min

The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the cinema.