A Brief History of Time (Criterion Collection, Blu-ray + DVD)

Read more

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. 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.