A brief history of time

Resource Information

The work A brief history of time represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Neenah Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A brief history of time

Statement of responsibility

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

Contributor

• Anglia Television
• Bailey, John, 1942 August 10-
• Czapsky, Stefan
• Fuller, Brad, (Bradley)
• Glass, Philip
• Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
• Hickman, David, (Film director)
• Morris, Errol
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Channel Four (Great Britain)
• Janus Films
• National Broadcasting Company
• Tōkyō Hōsō
• Bafaloukos, Ted

Cinematographer

• Czapsky, Stefan
• Bailey, John, 1942 August 10-

Composer

• Glass, Philip

Film director

• Morris, Errol

Film editor

• Fuller, Brad, (Bradley)

Production designer

• Bafaloukos, Ted

Subject

• Cosmology
• Documentary films
• Hawking, Stephen, 1942-
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
• Astrophysicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Biographical films

Genre

• Biography
• Documentary films
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Biographical films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

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

Member of

• A brief history of time (Motion picture)
• Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 699

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

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

Dewey number

• 530.092
• B

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: G
• OFRB rating: PG

Language note

Closed-captioned; English dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

• QC16.H39
• QC16.H33

LC item number

• B75 2014
• B75 2014

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

84

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

699

Technique

live action