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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Directed by Ric Burns

115 Min | English | United States | 2019 | Documentary
Feature | Open Captions | Audio Description
Producer: Leigh Howell, Bonnie Lafave, Kathryn Clinard | Audio Description produced by: Michele Spitz, Woman of Her Word | Open Captions produced by: NBCUniversal
History, LGBTQ, Media, Science, Social issues

Click here to rent the film through Kino Marquee Oct 9-16, 2020. To watch the film with audio description, email Morgan at [email protected].

A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well as nearly two dozen interviews with close friends, family members, colleagues and patients, and archival material from every point in his life, this film is the story of a beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.

Audio description provided by Michele Spitz, Woman of her Word

Disabilities featured:

Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia)
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