You'll also be the first to know when new films become viewable online. Kim Reynolds Press Conference | April 7, 2021, … Recorded Live on Zoom 1/27/21. Copyright © 2021 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), all rights reserved. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a Zeitgeist Films release in association with Kino Lorber. Produced by Zeitgeist Films, the film contains extensive interviews with Sacks and features commentary from friends and colleagues such as his publisher Roberto Calasso, his editor Kate Edgar, writer and doctor Atul Gawandeand artist Shane Fistell. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a 2019 American biographical documentary film directed and created by Ric Burns about Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist and science historian, based on his autobiography, His Own Life. Produced by Zeitgeist Films, the film contains extensive interviews with Sacks and features commentary from friends and colleagues such as his publisher Roberto Calasso, his editor Kate Edgar, writer and doctor Atul Gawande and artist Shane Fistell.
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Sacks discusses his professional life and his per… Your report has been successfully submitted. Perhaps his own torments helped to create the sympathy for society’s outsiders that led to his brilliant discoveries. Explore the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore the writer and his enduring influence. The book, titled On the Move: A Life, was published six to seven months before his end-stage terminal cancer was diagnosed. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact.
Copy a link to this video to your clipboard, Major support for American Masters is provided by AARP. | 1h 49m 28s Renowned neurologist and literary giant Oliver Sacks is posthumously celebrated in this profound, highly engaging, deeply personal memoir. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Published November 27, 2020. The film also draws on unique access to the extensive archives of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.Advertisement. The film features exclusive interviews with Sacks conducted just weeks after he received a terminal diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015, and nearly two dozen deeply revealing and personal interviews with family members, colleagues, patients, and close friends, including Jonathan Miller, Robert Silvers, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Robert Krulwich, Lawrence Weschler, Roberto Calasso, Paul Theroux, Bill Hayes, Kate Edgar, and Atul Gawande, among others. Sacks, known for his literary works Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was a fearless explorer of unknown cognitive worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.
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