Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea but is overcome by his declining mental condition.

Hemingway, having achieved literary fame, takes his talents to report on the Spanish Civil War.

HEMINGWAY is the latest series by documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Over three consecutive evenings, the program examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, interweaving biography with excerpts from his stories and non-fiction, revealing the brilliant, ambitious and complicated man behind the myth.