Film and Television
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Directed by: Ric Burns
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is an award-winning documentary exploring the life and work of Oliver Sacks, 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.
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.
Watch Kate Edgar, Executive Director of The Oliver Sacks Foundation as she talks about Dr. Sacks’s unique approach to his patients.
“The two dozen people we have talked to on-camera in the course of the production – writers, editors, scientists, neurologists, patients, journalists, family members, friends – have spoken with a depth of insight and feeling that has been humbling, illuminating, riveting. Brilliant, sometimes maddening, empathetic, driven, stubborn and filled with a kind of childlike wonder and gratitude, Oliver Sacks was a person obsessed throughout his whole life – as he put it in a deeply moving piece in The New York Times announcing his fatal illness – with what it means “to be a sentient being on this beautiful planet.” — Filmmaker, Ric Burns
Brilliant Minds: A New TV Show Based on Oliver Sacks
A new 13-part medical drama from NBC starring Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf. Inspired by case histories in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | Documentary by Ric Burns
Directed by Ric Burns The award-winning documentary explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist [...]
Awakenings, Featuring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
The 1990 film from Penny Marshall based on the book Awakenings is available to watch on streaming services.
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks | In Production
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is a journey into the mind and work of Oliver Sacks. Filmmaker Dempsey Rice’s decade of interviews with Oliver combine with animation, archival material and cinematic new filming, to take this film beyond conventional biography and into Oliver’s mind and world.
