A brief history of time / Janus Films ; an Anglia Television & Gordon Freedman production ; an Errol Morris film ; produced by David Hickman ; directed by Errol Morris ; produced in association with NBC, Tokyo Broadcasting System, & Channel Four, UK.

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"Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triu...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Brief history of time (Motion picture)
Main Author: Glass, Philip (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Janus Films (Production company)
Anglia Television (Production company)
National Broadcasting Company (Production company)
Tōkyō Hōsō (Production company)
Channel Four (Great Britain) (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Morris, Errol (Film director)
Hickman, David (Film director) (Film producer)
Bafaloukos, Ted (Production designer)
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018 (participant.)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
English; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Series:Criterion collection ; 699.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Hawking, Stephen, > 1942-2018.
Hawking, Stephen, > 1942-2018. > Brief history of time.
Astrophysicists > Great Britain > Biography.
Cosmology.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
"Errol Morris turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination. Telling the man's incredible story through the voices of his colleagues and loved ones, while making dynamically accessible some of the theories in Hawking's best-selling book of the same name, A Brief History of Time is at once as small as a single life and as big as the ever-expanding universe."--Publisher description.
Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.
Some copies originally packaged as part of a dual-format edition with a Blu-ray version of the film.
Special features: interview with director Errol Morris ; interview with cinematographer John Bailey.
Call Number:QC16.H39 B75 2014 VideoDVD
AD1 D0159945 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: G OFRB rating: PG.
ISBN:9781604658484 (DVD)
1604658487 (DVD)
9781604658118 (set)
1604658118 (set)
Credits:Directors of photography, John Bailey, Stefan Czapsky ; editor, Brad Fuller ; original music composed by Philip Glass ; music produced by Kurt Munkasci ; production designer, Ted Bafaloukos ; executive producer, Gordon Freedman.
System Details:DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1)
Cast:
Stephen Hawking ; interviewees: Isobel Hawking, Janet Humphrey, Mary Hawking, Basil King, Derek Powney, Norman Dix, Robert Berman, Gordon Berry, Roger Penrose, Dennis Sciama, John Wheeler, Brandon Carter, John Taylor, Kip Thorne, Don Page, Christopher Isham, Brian Whitt, Raymond LaFlamme.