Overview

• Director Rebecca Miller shapes the five-part project as a director-led “film portrait,” drawing on roughly 20 hours of new interviews with Martin Scorsese and extensive archival access.
• The docuseries features fresh conversations with close collaborators and family, including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg and Scorsese’s three daughters.
• Scorsese reveals he was expelled from a Catholic preparatory seminary as a teenager for “behaving badly,” as the series threads faith, marriages and fatherhood through his career.
• Critics praise the series’ lively, in-depth walk through his filmography, while noting it underplays his broader preservation efforts and gives uneven attention to certain films.
• Episodes trace his path from NYU shorts to landmark features and creative battles, touching on ratings pressures around Taxi Driver and recurring fights for artistic control.