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Maya Lin

Born October 5, 1959 · Athens, Ohio, USA (age 66)

Maya Ying Lin is an American architect and sculptor. In 1981, while an undergraduate at Yale University, she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Lin has designed numerous memorials, public and private buildings, landscapes, and sculptures. Although she is best known for historical memorials, she is …

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War Paint: Women at WarWar Paint: Women at War · 2025
War Paint: Women at War
★ 6.02025
MovieDocumentary
Shining a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it's life or death, what do women see that men don't?
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear VisionMaya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision · 1995
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
★ 7.11995
MovieDocumentary
A film about the work of the artist most famous for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.
Finding Your RootsFinding Your Roots · 2012
Finding Your Roots
★ 6.52012
SeriesDocumentary
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

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