Hemingway (film) - Wikipedia

2021 documentary film
Hemingway
Directed byKen BurnsLynn Novick
Narrated byPeter Coyote
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes3
Production
ProducersLynn NovickKen Burns
Running time5 Hours, 42 minutes
Production companiesFlorentine FilmsWETA
Original release
ReleaseApril 5 (2021-04-05) –April 7, 2021 (2021-04-07)

Hemingway is a documentary film on the life of Ernest Hemingway produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. It first aired on PBS in April 2021.[1]

Burns documented both the public and private personae of Hemingway from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1961. It focuses on Hemingway's writing, his four marriages, three sons, and Hemingway's peacetime and wartime lifestyle and interests, his alcoholism and character flaws.[2]

The film was narrated by Peter Coyote, with Jeff Daniels acting as the voice of Ernest Hemingway. Other voice actors include Meryl Streep, who voiced Hemingway's third wife, Martha Gellhorn.[3]

Senator John McCain was interviewed for this documentary sometime before his death in 2018. He had often cited Robert Jordan, the protagonist of Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, as his hero.[4]

Episodes

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  1. "A Writer (1899–1929)"
  2. "The Avatar (1929–1944)"
  3. "The Blank Page (1944–1961)"

Ken Burns and PBS

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In 2007, Burns had made an agreement with PBS to produce work for the network well into the next decade.[5] According to a 2017 piece in The New Yorker, Burns and his company, Florentine Films, selected topics for documentaries slated for release by 2030.

Reception

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Stephen Colbert of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert called it "incredibly moving and beautiful".[6]

References

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  1. ^ What to Watch on Monday The start of Ken Burns' 'Hemingway' documentary, The News & Observer, Brooke Cain, April 5, 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  2. ^ Los Angeles Times review, April 5, 2021
  3. ^ New York Times review, April 2, 2021
  4. ^ "Exclusive: John McCain interviewed in new Ken Burns film on Ernest Hemingway". April 2, 2021. Archived from the original on April 2, 2021.
  5. ^ "Ken Burns | Biography, Documentaries, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  6. ^ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (March 24, 2021). "Ken Burns Unpacks Ernest Hemingway's Facade of Masculinity | Ken Burns navigates the gap between the macho persona and the real inner life of his documentary subject, Ernest Hemingway. Dig deeper into the author's..." Facebook. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
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  • Hemingway at PBS
  • Hemingway at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Making Hemingway Archived April 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
  • Hemingway at IMDb
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Ken Burns
Documentaries
As director
  • Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
  • The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)
  • The Statue of Liberty (1985)
  • Huey Long (1985)
  • Thomas Hart Benton (1988)
  • The Congress (1989)
  • The Civil War (1990)
  • Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
  • Baseball (1994)
  • Thomas Jefferson (1997)
  • Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright (1998)
  • Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999)
  • Jazz (2001)
  • Mark Twain (2001)
  • Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
  • The War (2007)
  • The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
  • The Tenth Inning (2010)
  • Prohibition (2011)
  • The Dust Bowl (2012)
  • The Central Park Five (2012)
  • Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit (2013)
  • The Address (2014)
  • The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
  • Jackie Robinson (2016)
  • Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016)
  • The Vietnam War (2017)
  • The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science (2018)
  • Country Music (2019)
  • Hemingway (2021)
  • Muhammad Ali (2021)
  • Benjamin Franklin (2022)
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
  • The American Buffalo (2023)
  • Leonardo da Vinci (2024)
  • The American Revolution (2025)
As writer
  • Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015)
As producer
  • The West (1996)
Related
  • Sarah Burns (daughter)
  • Lilly Burns (daughter)
  • Ric Burns (brother)
  • Dayton Duncan
  • Lynn Novick
  • Geoffrey C. Ward
  • Ken Burns effect
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Ernest Hemingway
Bibliography
Novels
  • The Torrents of Spring (1926)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • To Have and Have Not (1937)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Nonfiction
  • Death in the Afternoon (1932)
  • Green Hills of Africa (1935)
Posthumous
  • A Moveable Feast (1964)
  • Islands in the Stream (1970)
  • The Dangerous Summer (1985)
  • The Garden of Eden (1986)
  • True at First Light (1999)
  • Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
Short stories
  • "Up in Michigan" (1921)
  • "Indian Camp" (1924)
  • "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
  • "The End of Something" (1925)
  • "The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
  • "The Battler" (1925)
  • "A Very Short Story" (1925)
  • "Soldier's Home" (1925)
  • "The Revolutionist" (1925)
  • "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
  • "Cat in the Rain" (1925)
  • "Out of Season" (1925)
  • "Cross Country Snow" (1925)
  • "My Old Man" (1925)
  • "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
  • "Banal Story" (1926)
  • "Today is Friday" (1926)
  • "A Canary for One" (1927)
  • "Fifty Grand" (1927)
  • "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
  • "The Killers" (1927)
  • "The Undefeated" (1927)
  • "Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
  • "In Another Country" (1927)
  • "Now I Lay Me" (1927)
  • "A Simple Enquiry" (1927)
  • "Ten Indians" (1927)
  • "An Alpine Idyll" (1927)
  • "A Pursuit Race" (1927)
  • "On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
  • "Fathers and Sons" (1932)
  • "A Natural History of the Dead" (1932)
  • "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1933)
  • "A Day's Wait" (1933)
  • "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
  • "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
  • "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
  • "The Capital of the World" (1936)
  • "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
  • "Old Man at the Bridge" (1938)
Short story collections
  • Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
  • In Our Time (1925)
  • Men Without Women (1927)
  • Winner Take Nothing (1933)
  • The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
  • The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
  • The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)
Story fragments
  • "On Writing"
Poetry
  • 88 Poems (1979)
  • Complete Poems
Plays
  • Today is Friday (1926)
  • The Fifth Column (1938)
Screenplays
  • The Spanish Earth (1937 film)
Letters andjournalism
  • By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
  • Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 (1981)
  • Dateline: Toronto (1985)
  • The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)
Adaptations
The Sun Also Rises
  • 1957 film
  • 1984 film
  • Opera
  • The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
  • Ballet
"The Killers"
  • 1946 film
  • 1956 film
  • 1964 film
  • Bukowski short story
A Farewell to Arms
  • 1932 film
  • 1957 film
  • 1966 TV series
To Have and Have Not
  • 1944 film
  • The Breaking Point (1950)
  • The Gun Runners (1958)
  • Captain Khorshid (1987)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • 1943 film
  • 1959 TV play
  • 1965 TV series
  • 1984 song
The Old Man and the Sea
  • 1958 film
  • 1990 film
  • 1999 animated film
Other film adaptations
  • The Macomber Affair (1947)
  • Under My Skin (1950)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
  • The World of Nick Adams (1957) (TV)
  • Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
  • Islands in the Stream (1977)
  • Soldier's Home (1977)
  • My Old Man (1979)
  • After the Storm (2001)
  • The Garden of Eden (2008)
  • Across the River and into the Trees (2022)
Homes
  • Birthplace and boyhood home
  • Michigan cottage
  • Hemingway-Pfeiffer House
  • Key West home
  • Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana home
  • Finca Vigía, Cuba home
  • Idaho home
Depictions
  • Bacall to Arms (1946 cartoon)
  • Hemingway: On the Edge (1987 play)
  • In Love and War (1996 film)
  • Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 film)
  • Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen (2013 documentary)
  • Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015 film)
  • Genius (2016 film)
  • Hemingway (2021 documentary series)
  • Frankie Drake Mysteries (Season 1)
Related
  • Nick Adams
  • Floridita
  • Pilar (boat)
  • Iceberg theory
  • Ernest Hemingway International Billfishing Tournament
  • International Imitation Hemingway Competition
  • Maxwell Perkins
  • Adriana Ivancich
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
  • Premio Hemingway
  • Hello Hemingway (1990 film)
  • Hemingway: A Portrait (1999 documentary)
  • Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999 documentary)
  • Hemingway crater
  • Kennedy Library Hemingway collection
  • Hemingwaya
Family
  • Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (first wife)
  • Jack Hemingway (son)
  • Pauline Pfeiffer (second wife)
  • Patrick Hemingway (son)
  • Gloria Hemingway (daughter)
  • Martha Gellhorn (third wife)
  • Mary Welsh Hemingway (fourth wife)
  • Lorian Hemingway (granddaughter)
  • Margaux Hemingway (granddaughter)
  • John Hemingway (grandson)
  • Mariel Hemingway (granddaughter)
  • Grace Hall Hemingway (mother)
  • Leicester Hemingway (brother)
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