A Brief History of Time
| Release Date: | Oct 1991 |
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| Genre: | Biography / Documentary |
| Cast: | Isobel Hawking (Herself - Stephen Hawking's Mother), Stephen Hawking (Himself), Janet Humphrey (Herself - Stephen Hawking's Aunt), Mary Hawking (Herself - Stephen Hawking's Sister), Basil King (Himself - Hawking Family Neighbor), Derek Powney (Himself - Hawking Classmate at Oxford), Norman Dix (Himself - Hawking Classmate at Oxford), Robert Berman (Himself - Hawking Tutor at Oxford), Gordon Berry (Himself - Hawking Classmate at Oxford), Roger Penrose (Himself - Professor at Cambridge), Dennis Sciama (Himself - Professor at Cambridge), John Wheeler (Himself - Astrophysicist), Brandon Carter (Himself - Astrophysicist), John Taylor (Himself - Astrophysicist), Kip Thorne (Himself - Research Scientist at...) |
Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.