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Behind the Scenes | Making Hemingway

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein give us a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Hemingway. We explore where Ernest Hemingway lived and traveled as the team visits his home in Cuba, learn about his writing process through manuscripts housed at the JFK Library, and the impact of fame on his art. Premieres April 5, 2021.

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Behind the Scenes | Making Hemingway
BEHIND THE SCENES
Behind the Scenes | Making Hemingway
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Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein give us a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Hemingway. We explore wher
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Spanish Version | The Blank Page (1944-1961)
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Behind the Scenes | Making Hemingway
BEHIND THE SCENES
Behind the Scenes | Making Hemingway
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Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein give us a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Hemingway. We explore wher
Behind the Scenes | Exploring Hemingway
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Behind the Scenes | Exploring Hemingway
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Get an inside look at Hemingway and discover why Ken Burns and Lynn Novick chose to explore the complex and iconic writer.
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About the Film

Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography — a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity — with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created. 

Premiere date: April 5, 2021

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