Biography: LEONARDO, film by Ken Burns, for PBS.

Part One: The Disciple of Experience

Script: 50 pages, 12,928 words, comes with video from PBS

MAN: A good painter must depict two principal things—namely, the person, and the intentions of their mind. The first is easy, the second difficult. He modernity of Leonardo is that he understands that knowledge and imagination are intimately related.  

MAN AS LEONARDO:  Which nerve causes the eye to move so that the motion of one eye moves the other, on closing the eyelids, on opening the eyes, on expressing wonder?  

Part Two: Painter-God
Episode 2 | 1h 46m

Script: 39 pages, 13232 words, video from PBS
Leonardo works as a military engineer, designs fanciful flying machines, studies light and shadow, investigates gravity, dissects cadavers, and pens treatises on a vast array of subjects, all while seeking the perfect patron. In Florence, Milan, Rome and finally France, he pours the sum of his scientific and artistic knowledge into a portrait that would become the most famous painting on earth.