The Criterion Collection

A Brief History of Time

Edition no. 699

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Release Date: Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $24.95

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Fourth Floor Productions, Inc.

Directed by: Errol Morris

Featuring: Stephen Hawking

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.

Year: 1991
Time: 84 min.