Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

E1 · 53m

Episode One

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

E2 · 53m

Episode Two

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

E3 · 52m

Episode Three

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.