An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written generations ago amid a violent conflict.

Hemingway the Author was presented by GBH and The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. It features Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Tobias Wolff, Abraham Verghese and Alan Price.

Viewers may still join the conversation on social media with #HemingwayPBS and follow @LynnNovick and @KenBurns Hemingway and Childhood was presented by WTTW, and features Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ...

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, ...

Sundance: "Anatomy of a Fall" breakout Swann Arlaud stars as disturbed father in this Hemingway-inspired family story.

But much moreso than recent "minor" Ken Burns docs like The American Buffalo or Benjamin Franklin or Hemingway - smart projects that still felt like they could have come from any number of PBS ...