American Masters Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (Season 28, Episode 7)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Masters

Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (Season 28, Episode 7)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Her photo Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized images in the world, a portrait that came to represent America's Great Depression. Few know the story, struggles and body of work of the woman who created the portrait: Dorothea Lange.

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21 cast members

Name	Known for
Dyanna Taylor Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Mulan (2020)
Dorothea Lange Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dust to Eat (2021)
Clair Brown Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Richard Conrad Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Daniel Dixon Self Self See fewer	Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit (2007)
Donald Fanger Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Christina Clausen Gardner Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Jan Goggans Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Linda Gordon Self Self See fewer	America's History in the Making (2008)
Becky Jenkins Self (as Rebecca Jenkins) Self (as Rebecca Jenkins) See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Paul Kitagaki Self Self See fewer	The Future of America's Past (2019)
Elizabeth Partridge Self Self See fewer	Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (1995)
Rondal Partridge Self Self See fewer	Ansel Adams: Photographer (1981)
Sandra Phillips Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Sally Stein Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Richard Steven Street Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
John Szarkowski Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Experience (1988)
Paul Taylor Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Margot Taylor-Fanger Self (as Dr. Margot Taylor-Fanger) Self (as Dr. Margot Taylor-Fanger) See fewer	American Masters (1985)
David Weiman Self Self See fewer	American Masters (1985)
Anne Whiston Spirn Self Self See fewer	Redemption Square (2017)