'Lucky for him he could write': Ken Burns takes on Ernest Hemingway

Too white, too male, too privileged - and according to some critics, that's just one of the co-directors. A new PBS documentary on an American giant sails in stormy waters

Speaking at a press event for the new PBS documentary about Ernest Hemingway, the actor Jeff Daniels said of the man whose words he reads: Lucky for him he could write."

Over six hours, the co-directors Lynn Novick and Ken Burns subject a giant of American literature to an unsparing psychiatric exam.