American Masters: 'When You're Strange' Doors' documentary 9 PM tonight (PREVIEW)

L-R) Musicians Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek of the film "When You're Strange" pose for a portrait at the Film Lounge Media Center during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2009 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Carr/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Robby Krieger;Ray Manzarek (Getty Images)

PBS' 'American Masters': "When You're Strange, a film about The Doors" airs tonight 9:00 PM to 10:30 P.M. on PBS (check local listings).  Johnny Depp narrates this feature documentary, the first ever, about the "creative chemistry of four brilliant artists – drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison – made The Doors one of America’s most iconic and influential, theatrical and mysterious, thrilling and sometime frightening rock bands."

Writer/director Tom DiCillo said from the outset he'd decided to only use original footage of the band, much previously unseen, and shot from the band's early formative years of the mid-sixties up to Jim Morrison's death in 1971.

“To me, there is nothing more powerful and riveting that seeing Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Jim Morrison leap into life on the screen.”

The PBS presentation of 'American Masters': "When You're Strange, a film about The Doors" airs tonight 9:00 PM to 10:30 P.M. on PBS (check local listings).  Watch a preview below!

American Masters: When You’re Strange is directed and written by Tom DiCillo and produced by John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski and Dick Wolf. Johnny Depp narrates. Susan Lacy is the series creator and executive producer of American Masters.

American Masters is made possible by the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding for American Masters is provided by Rosalind P. Walter, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Jack Rudin, Elizabeth Rosenthal in memory of Rolf W. Rosenthal, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation, and public television viewers.

Interview with Jim Morrison's Father and Sister Admiral George S. Morrison and Anne Morrison-Chewning give the first interview about Jim’s musical career with The Doors. Jim’s father, a military man, relives his struggle to understand his son as an artist and his sister gives new insights into Jim’s creative struggles while living in the limelight.

Robby Krieger, guitarist for The Doors, talked to PBS at this year’s SXSW festival about AMERICAN MASTERS When You’re Strange, the first feature film about The Doors, premiering Wednesday, May 12, at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Krieger talks about the use of previously unseen archival footage in the film, Doors fan Johnny Depp as the narrator, and his own inspiration for creating music. As the key songwriter for The Doors, Krieger penned some of their biggest hits – notably their mesmerizing #1 hit, “Light My Fire.” Krieger is listed among Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”

John Densmore, the drummer for The Doors, talks to PBS about AMERICAN MASTERS When You’re Strange, the first feature documentary about The Doors. The film is directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp. Densmore discusses the documentary’s opening sequence featuring Jim Morrison’s rarely seen original film “HWY: An American Pastoral,” and the different path he has taken as a rock star. Densmore’s autobiography, Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and The Doors, was published in 1991 and was a New York Times bestseller. He joined Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger for The Doors induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

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