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Directed by celebrated documentary filmmaker Ric Burns, the film features revealing and personal interviews with Sacks conducted in the months prior to his death in 2015 and those closest to him…
Read MoreThe Lancet Psychiatry
PBS has produced a radiant documentary, directed by Ric Burns, that shows how Sacks embodies what Sir William Osler said, over a century ago: “It is the good physician that treats the disease. It is the great physician who treats the patient with the disease.” No wonder Sacks was so beloved
Read MoreForbes
This past week, a documentary on Sacks premiered on the PBS “American Masters” series…Sacks did as much as anyone to introduce autism to a general audience in the United States…
Read MoreJewish Insider
A new documentary takes a painstakingly intimate look at the famously private British writer and neurologist, who died in 2015
Read MoreNBC News
In the PBS presentation, documentary filmmaker Ric Burns chronicles Sacks’ storied career as well as his long struggle with his sexuality
Read MoreIndieWire
The innovative wordsmith's time spent in and outside of the world of neurological studies is captured in this portrait of both his breakthroughs and insecurities.
Read MoreThe New York Review of Books
The physician and author, subject of a new PBS documentary airing this week, was a contributor to The New York Review for over three decades.
Read MoreThe Hollywood Reporter
This week, it just so happens that the Burnses are having back-to-back premieres on PBS, with Ken debuting an expansive three-part docuseries on Ernest Hemingway, which he directed with longtime creative partner Lynn Novick, and Ric screening Oliver Sacks: His Own Life about the famed writer and neurologist.
Read MoreVariety
Variety's Clayton Davis predicts that OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE will be a contender for a feature doc Oscar nomination.
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald
The author and neurologist Oliver Sacks became famous by telling the stories of patients with uncommon brain conditions – but Ric Burns’ documentary, filmed just before Sacks’ death in 2015, reveals its subject as a personality as unique and fascinating as any he wrote about.
Read MoreScientific American
Burns’s documentary, made shortly before Sacks’s death from cancer in 2015, traces the blossoming of a brilliant but troubled outsider as he elevated patient case histories to a literary art form by ceaselessly posing the same question: What is it like to be you?
Read MoreThe Hollywood Reporter
Ric Burns' Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Zeitgeist) documents a world-famous neurologist who was given a death sentence — inoperable cancer — and used his remaining time to reflect on his complicated life and the wonder of the world.
Read MoreSIRIUS XM / THE JENNY MCCARTHY SHOW
Ric Burns, director of "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" on The Jenny McCarthy Show.
Read MoreIn Their Own League
This documentary by Ric Burns does not shy away from depicting its subject in all of his iconoclastic glory.
Read MoreTHE NEW YORK TIMES (Critics’ Pick)
A new documentary explores the fascinating and sometimes troubled life of the famed neurologist.
Read MoreThird Coast Review
Filmmaker Ric Burns chronicles those final months in a new documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, a beautiful tribute to a beautiful soul.
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