VIDEO: First Look - PBS's AMERICAN MASTERS MEL BROOKS: MAKE A NOISE, Premiering Tonight

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In PBS's AMERICAN MASTERS: Mel Brooks - MAKE A NOISE, comedian Mel Brooks shares never-before-heard stories about his personal life and 60-year career in the film. The larger-than-life legend is very private, making his participation in this film a genuine first. Featuring new interviews with Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, and others, the film will premiere nationally tonight, May 20 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and available on DVD May 21 from Shout! Factory. Check out clips below to get a first look!

After 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer; he is one of 14 EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners. Yet, the comedy giant has energetically avoided a documentary profile being made, even issuing an informal gag order on his friends ... until now. Brooks agreed to throw himself into a new documentary about his storied career, giving American Masters exclusive interviews and complete access to his film and photo archives.

Premiering nationwide tonight, May 20, 2013 on PBS (check local listings), Mel Brooks: Make a Noise features new interviews with Brooks, his friends and colleagues, including Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, and his close friend, with whom he created The 2000 Year Old Man more than 50 years ago, Carl Reiner.

Showcasing the Brooklyn native's brilliant, skewed originality, Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks' early years in the creative beginnings of live television - with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows - to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs - to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs - his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft - capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise is a production of American Masters for THIRTEEN. Robert Trachtenberg is writer, director, producer, and editor. Susan Lacy is American Masters series creator and executive producer.

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