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. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is the story of a beloved doctor and writer who redefined our understanding of the brain and mind.

Three decades after the moving biopic Awakenings, the brilliant neurologist Oliver Sacks gets to tell his own story in director Ric Burns’s poignant documentary profile. Filmed over his final months, it’s a tender tribute to a life spent excavating the unfathomable recesses of the human mind.