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A brief history of time
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Errol Morris (The Fog of War) 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 ...
Errol Morris (The Fog of War) 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.
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- Creator
- Janus Films ; an Anglia Television & Gordon Feedman production ; an Errol Morris film ; executive producer, Gordon Freedman ; produced by David Hickman ; directed by Errol Morris ; produced in association with NBC, Tokyo Broadcasting System & Channel Four, UK ; Triton Pictures
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Morris, Errol, film director
- Freedman, Gordon, film producer
- Hickman, David (Film director), film producer
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018, interviewee (expression)
- Powney, Derek J., interviewee (expression)
- Berry, H. G. (Henry Gordon), 1940- interviewee (expression)
- Penrose, Roger, interviewee (expression)
- Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926- interviewee (expression)
- Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008, interviewee (expression)
- Carter, B. (Brandon), interviewee (expression)
- Thorne, Kip S., interviewee (expression)
- Laflamme, Raymond, 1960- interviewee (expression)
- Glass, Philip, composer (expression)
- Munkacsi, Kurt, music producer
- Fuller, Brad (Film editor) film editor
- Bafaloukos, Ted, production designer
- Bailey, John, 1942 August 10- director of photography
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018. Brief history of time
- Sterritt, David, writer of supplementary textual content
- Janus Films
- Anglia Television
- National Broadcasting Company
- Tōkyō Hōsō
- Channel Four (Great Britain)
- Triton Pictures
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Publication
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- Director-approved, dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition
- ©2014
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (84 min.) : Blu-ray and DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm)
- Blu-ray digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
- DVD digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
- Blu-ray laser optical HDTV
- DVD laser optical NTSC
- Blu-ray video file region A
- DVD video file DVD video region 1
- ISBNs
- 9781604658118, 1604658118
- OCLC
- ocn873944948
- Credits
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- Featuring: Stephen Hawking, 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
- Original music composed by Philip Glass ; music produced by Kurt Munkacsi ; editor, Brad Fuller ; production designer, Ted Bafaloukos ; director of photography, John Bailey
- Based on the book by Stephen Hawking.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.
- Special features: Errol Morris (interview with the director); John Bailey (interview with the cinematographer). Booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt, a chapter from Stephen Hawking's 2013 memoir My Brief History, and an excerpt from Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time.
- Blu-ray; region A; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation; DTS-HD Master audio ; requires Blu-ray player.
- DVD: NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1), Dolby Digital 5.1 surround