The best Stephen Hawking’s documentary movies

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

08/01/1942- 14/03/2018
Today we present the best Stephen Hawking’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Stephen Hawking’s movies.
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The Unbelievers

The Unbelievers
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 13/12/2013
  • Character: Self
Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.

David Blaine: Real or Magic

David Blaine: Real or Magic
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/11/2013
  • Character: Himself
David Blaine's signature brand of street magic mystifies the most recognisable celebrities in the world, such as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Ricky Gervais, Katy Perry, Woody Allen, and Robert DeNiro, to name a few. He goes to the homes of Kanye West and Harrison Ford, Will Smith and Olivia Wilde. He pays a visit to Stephen Hawking at his office in Cambridge University. Blaine also travels the world, astonishing people from all walks of life with never-before seen, inconceivable magic.

A Brief History of Time

A Brief History of Time
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/10/1991
  • Character: Self
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.

Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know

Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know
6.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 18/03/2020
  • Character: Self
Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.

Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell

Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell
7.9/10
Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco share backstage secrets and personal memories, reveal their favorite moments playing their roles and remember some of the most memorable stories, while visiting the iconic sets of this beloved series.

The 11th Hour

The 11th Hour
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 17/08/2007
  • Character: Himself
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse

Alien Planet

Alien Planet
7.2/10
The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures on another world, where life is possible, if not provable, according to scientists' theories. Take this fascinating journey created by state-of-the-art animation and photo-realistic effects.

Surviving Progress

Surviving Progress
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/11/2011
  • Character: Himself
Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.

Hawking

Hawking
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/03/2013
  • Character: Himself
The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist, told in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen's world, both past and present.

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
8.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/03/2019
  • Character: Self - Narrator (archive sound)
How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos - to name a few.

Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma

Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma
6.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 07/09/2018
  • Character: Himself
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?"

The Truth Is in the Stars

The Truth Is in the Stars
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/05/2017
  • Character: Himself
William Shatner sits down with scientists, innovators and celebrities to discuss how the optimism of 'Star Trek' influenced multiple generations.

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
7.6/10
With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage cumulating in the legendary One Down, Five To Go.

Stephen Hawking and The Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking and The Theory of Everything
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 24/03/2009
  • Character: Himself
Twenty years after A Brief History of Time flummoxed the world with its big numbers and black holes, its author, Stephen Hawking, concedes that the "ultimate theory" he'd believed to be imminent - which would conclusively explain the origins of life, the universe and everything - remains frustratingly elusive. Yet despite his failing health and the seeming impossibility of the task, Hawking is still devoted to his work; an extraordinary drive that's captured here in fleeting interview snippets and footage of the scientist sharing a microwave dinner with some fawning PhD students. Though the pop-science tutorials that dapple the first of this two-part biography are winningly perky, Hawking, alas, remains as tricky to fathom as his boggling quantum whatnots

The Entire Universe

The Entire Universe
6.5/10
Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a comedy and musical extravaganza.

Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity

Fractals: The Colors Of Infinity
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1995
  • Character: Himself
Explores the revolutionary world of Fractal Geometry - its far-reaching and often unexpected implications - its powerful and revolutionary applications.

God, the Universe and Everything Else

God, the Universe and Everything Else
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1988
  • Character: Himself
In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Last Days on Earth

Last Days on Earth
7.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 30/08/2006
  • Character: Himself
How secure is our future? This eye-opening documentary -- which uses computer-generated imagery to illustrate an asteroid collision, black holes and worldwide plagues, among other threats -- explores seven scenarios that could spell the end of the world. Interviews with noted scientists examine the extent of preparations for these cataclysmic events and what's being done to save future generations from extinction.

Stem Cell Universe With Stephen Hawking

Stem Cell Universe With Stephen Hawking
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/02/2014
  • Character: Himself
The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectrum. But what if we could create manmade stem cells - or find super cells in adults that could forever replace embryonic cells and remove the controversy? Today, we are on the brink of a new era - an age where we may be able to cure our bodies of any illness. Stephen HAWKING has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the cosmos, now there is another universe that fascinates him - the one hidden inside our bodies - our own personal galaxies of cells.

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
8.5/10

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