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Oliver Sacks : his own life Cover Image DVD DVD

Oliver Sacks : his own life / a film by Ric Burns ; a production of Steeplechase Films, Vulcan Productions, Motto Pictures, American Masters Pictures, Independent Television Service, Inc. and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Sandbox Films, WDR, ARTE, Arthur Altschul Jr. Films, ; directed by Ric Burns ; produced by Leigh Howell, Bonnie Lafave, Kathryn Clinard.

Burns, Ric, (film director.). Howell, Leigh, (film producer.). Lafave, Bonnie, (film producer.). Clinard, Kathryn, (film producer.). Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 (on-screen participant.). Steeplechase Films Inc., (production company.). Vulcan Productions, (production company.). Motto Pictures, (production company.). American Masters Pictures, (production company.). Independent Television Service, (production company.). Tangled Bank Studios, LLC, (production company.). Sandbox Films, (production company.). Passion Pictures (Firm), (production company.). Westdeutscher Rundfunk, (production company.). Association relative à la télévision européenne, (production company.). Arthur Altschul Jr. Films, (production company.). Kino Lorber, Inc., (publisher.). Zeitgeist Films, (publisher.). Oliver Sacks, Atul Gawande, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Anil Seth. (Cast).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Kino Lorber : [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally produced in 2019.
Wide screen.
Special features: Deleted scenes.
Participant or Performer Note:
Oliver Sacks, Atul Gawande, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Anil Seth.
Target Audience Note:
Rating: Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby Audio, 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereo.
Language Note:
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH); closed-captioned in English; descriptive audio in English.
Source of Description Note:
Title from disc surface.

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Subject: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Neurologists > Biography.
Historians of science > Biography.
Physicians as authors.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Genre: Biographical films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Allentown Public Library DVD 616.8 OLIV (Text) 34455006785485 Adult DVD Nonfiction Available -
Easton Main Library DVD 616.8 O (Text) 31901004490126 Adult DVD Nonfiction Available -

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