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 and storyteller, [...]
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.
Radiant Minds: The World of Oliver Sacks
Radiant Minds: The World of Oliver Sacks is an Audible Original Podcast series investigating consciousness, the brain, and the [...]
Awakenings Opera in Two Acts | Composed by Tobias Picker Opera
Composed by Tobias Picker Libretto (Eng) by Aryeh Lev Stollman, Based on the book by Dr. Oliver Sacks Tobias [...]
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.
Awakenings Ballet for Orchestra | Tobias Picker (2010)
Ballet for Orchestra Inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks' book "Awakenings" Text by Oliver Sacks Choreographed by Aletta Collins Commissioned [...]
TEDTalks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds
In this TEDTalk from 2009, Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people [...]
Michael Nyman | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1987 TV Opera)
A one-act opera adapted by Michael Morris, music by Michael Nyman, based on author Oliver Sacks’s critically-acclaimed book. Produced [...]
Hallucinations with Oliver Sacks | World Science Festival
Oliver Sacks joined award-winning journalist John Hockenberry at the The World Science Festival in 2012 to discuss his book [...]
BBC Desert Island Discs with Oliver Sacks
Dr. Sacks was a guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1994. Listen to the interview with presenter [...]
A Glorious Accident
A documentary for VPRO by Wim Kayzer, first aired in the Netherlands in 1993 and on PBS stations in [...]
Oliver Sacks Interview | PBS NewsHour, 1989
“The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” spoke with Sacks in 1989. Joanna Simon asked him how he would like to be remembered [...]
The Mind Traveler
US broadcast. Four-part PBS series by Rosetta Pictures. Christopher Rawlence, producer and director; Emma Crichton-Miller, co-producer. Episodes on “The [...]
