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"What hallucination reveals about our minds": Watch a video of Oliver Sacks speaking at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference about Charles Bonnett syndrome - when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations.
- "Mind, Memory, and the Actor": Watch Michael Boyd, Lee Bollinger, and Oliver Sacks in conversation at Columbia University.
- B&N Studio: Video of Oliver Sacks speaking at Barnes & Noble in Union Square.
- Musicophilia: Watch some videos of Oliver Sacks discussing his book on Amazon.com.
- Uncle Tungsten: Dr. Sacks discusses his Uncle Tungsten and other memories from his chemical boyhood. This site includes video clips of Dr. Sacks's presentation at Columbia University.
- The Periodic Table: Watch and hear Oliver Sacks discuss his childhood fascination with the Periodic Table.
- Charlie Rose: Watch Dr. Sacks’s appearances on this television show.
On film
- Awakenings: A feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner and John Heard. Produced by Walter Parkes and Larry Lasker, directed by Penny Marshall, screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Released December 1990 by Columbia Pictures. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Received the 1991 Scriptor Award. [Not in CU Libraries - Try Interlibrary Loan]
- Awakenings [documentary]: This 1974 Yorkshire Television documentary features interviews and dramatic footage of Dr. Sacks' original post-encephalitic patients who were awakened by L-dopa in the summer of 1969. The U.S. premiere was held as part of the Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History on July 22, 2000. [Not released in the U.S.]
- "The Nervous System and the Soul": Oliver Sacks contributes to the series, Approaches to consciousness hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove and produced and directed by Arthur Bloch. [CU Libraries]
- 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 Ragin' Cajun" (on a deaf-blind community in Seattle); "Island of the Colorblind" (on color and colorblindness in a small Pacific atoll); "Rage for Order" (on an autistic artist, Jessy Park); and "Don't be Shy, Mr. Sacks" (on Williams syndrome), September 1998. [Not in CU Libraries - Try Interlibrary Loan]
- At First Sight: A feature film based on "To See or Not See," a clinical tale in An Anthropologist on Mars. Starring Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Davidson, Nathan Lane, Kelly McGillis, and Steven Weber. Screenplay by Steve Leavitt and Rob Cowan. Produced by Rob Cowan. Directed and Produced by Irwin Winkler. Released by MGM, January 1999. [Not in CU Libraries - Try Interlibrary Loan]
Theater
- L'homme Qui... (in French): Theatrical production by Peter Brook, inspired by The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. First production at the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, 1993; English version, "The Man Who...," first performed at the National Theatre, 1994 and 1995; Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1995; and elsewhere. [NY Times review]
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