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The Theory of Everything: Film Guide

The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything
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11–16

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Short (1-4 activities)

A film guide that looks at The Theory of Everything (2104), a moving biopic of the renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking, from his student days in Cambridge to the present.

This guide is useful for exploring topics including PSHE Education and Science, and highlighting themes surrounding health and wellbeing, love and relationships, disabilities, biographies and science.

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