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  • 2020
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2020
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m

Summary 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. Sacks was a fearless explorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our un...

Directed By: Ric Burns

  • 2020
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m
  • 2020
  • Zeitgeist Films
  • 1 h 51 m

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary 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. Sacks was a fearless explorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our un...

Directed By: Ric Burns

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90
Sep 25, 2020
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is a moving portrait of a man taking deep stock of his life with great satisfaction and verve. It
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 24, 2020
What’s most moving about Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is that Sacks, whose extreme love of existence was there in every sentence he wrote, could embrace death because it would be the most out-there adventure of his life. What he saw is that we were all, in our ways, afflicted and all unique. And therefore all extraordinary.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 10, 2021
In the many ways it’s straightforward, it also allows for the same care that helped make him a transformational figure for himself and those moved to action by his work.
By Steve Greene FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 14, 2021
What a man. Just writing this makes me want to watch the documentary all over again.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 1, 2021
A hugely entertaining record of a person no novelist could have invented.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 24, 2020
Sacks’ personal life was as startling as his professional achievements.
By Stephen Farber FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 24, 2020
The documentary’s chief virtue, after the very considerable pleasure of getting to spend time in Sacks’s company, is learning how much his personal life rivaled his career in remarkableness.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Masters Pictures, Artemis Rising Foundation, Ford Foundation - Just Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, ITVS International, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Motto Pictures, Passion Pictures, Sandbox Films, Steeplechase Films, Sutor Kolonko, The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, The Overbrook Foundation, Vulcan Productions, WDR Fernsehen, Wellcome Institute, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Release Date Sep 23, 2020
Duration 1 h 51 m
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Website http://oliversacksmovie.com/
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Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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