Pulitzer Prize winning author Norman Mailer has chronicled the political, social and cultural views of the Untied States for over fifty years. American Masters presents a candid, personal look at the man and his work with Mailer On Mailer, the first comprehensive documentary portrait of the novelist, essayist, journalist and activist.

Compiled from over 20 hours of exclusive interviews with the writer, this extraordinary profile includes rare archival footage as well as never-before-seen photographs and original manuscripts from the Mailer archives.

Seductive and turbulent, both fascinated and at odds with his country, Norman Mailer personally explores the tensions that exist between reality and fiction in this unprecedented film.