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Episode One

Episode number: 1

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

Episode Two

Episode number: 2

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

Episode Three

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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.