Hemingway
2021 · Miniseries · TV-14 · 120 min · ★ 7.5 · 84% critics
This miniseries traces the life and legacy of a celebrated American writer, blending biography with excerpts from short stories, novels, and nonfiction. It explores the drive, charisma, and contradictions behind the public legend, while showing how personal turmoil and ambition shaped the work and the myth around it.
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Streaming on PBS Documentaries.
5 hours to watch · 3 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-04-05
- Network
- PBS
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Critic score
- 84/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (14 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like steady, absorbing PBS-style biographies that mix history with literature and don’t shy away from some rough edges; Not for you if you want a brisk, hard-hitting takedown or minimal narration, like in The Civil War.
Pros: compelling life story; comforting storytelling style; informative historical context | Cons: sometimes too reverent; soft on flaws; long runtime commitment
Cast & crew
Peter Coyote
as Narrator (voice)
Jeff Daniels
as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
- MK
Michael Kitakis
as Himself – Writer
Edna O'Brien
as Herself – Writer
Tobias Wolff
as Himself – Writer
- MD
Mary Dearborn
as Herself – Biographer
- AV
Abraham Verghese
as Himself – Writer
- MK
Mary Karr
as Herself – Writer
- SB
Susan Beegel
as Herself – Literary Scholar
- MD
Marc Dudley
as Himself – Literary Scholar
Directed by Lynn Novick, Ken Burns
Episodes1 season · 3 episodes
Season 13 episodes
- S1E1A Writer (1899-1929)115mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2The Avatar (1929-1944)106mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3The Blank Page (1944-1961)104mAmazon Prime Video