Jackson Pollock spread his canvases on the floor and worked with sticks and hardened brushes, flinging and dripping paint until the surface held no trace of a single brushstroke. Narrated by Melvyn Bragg, this 1987 profile traces how a struggling, hard-drinking painter from Wyoming became the figure critics credited with breaking American art free of European tradition. Archival photographs and film of Pollock at work in his Long Island barn studio anchor the film, alongside interviews and commentary that place his method inside the wider Abstract Expressionist movement he helped define. Rather than explaining Pollock's theories in depth, the film treats the paintings themselves as the argument, letting the footage of his physical, all-over technique carry the weight. It also follows the arc of his short career, from early recognition through the drinking that shadowed his final years, ending with the car crash that killed him in 1956 at forty-four.