Director Ric Burns documented Sacks' final months for Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

A portrait of the poetic neurologist of 'Awakenings,' shot at the end of his life, takes a tender and thrilling look at the sacred demons that drove him.

Sacks has been featured in films before, but this is the first documentary about his entire life. It covers his writing and medical career, but also his traumatic early-life experiences, rejections from the scientific community, his struggles with his homosexuality, and his preternatural ability for compassion and empathy towards people with a wide range of neurological disorders.

Burns’s documentary is a fitting and moving tribute to a man who never stopped wondering what it was like to be in the head of another sentient being.

Sahithi Pingali, star of 'Inventing Tomorrow,' on how she put the future of her city in her neighbors's hands

Teen STEM students from around the world assemble in Los Angeles seeking scientific solutions to environmental problems in the documentary “Inventing Tomorrow” on a new “POV.” 

No manmade object has traveled as far from Earth as Voyager 1, and its twin is a relatively close second. More than 14 billion and 11 billion miles away, respectively, they gave us unprecedented knowledge of the outer planets of our solar system before making interstellar travel a reality in 2012. This PBS documentary tells their story and shares some of the most breathtaking, unfathomable images that have ever existed.

The director Emer Reynolds’s documentary “The Farthest” describes the work that went into crafting these enduring marvels of mid-70s technology, which are still zooming away. The film is a reminder of the idealism and optimism of the people who worked in the space program over 40 years ago, and it serves as a call to recapture their spirit and ingenuity.

Our Gorongosa, a movie from Tangled Bank Studios so powerful that it brought the audience to tears