a brief history of time be not only a documentary on the beginning and the end of the universal and reality a we know it and this be a story about the man and the genius know a stephen hawk . it be his story that reflect the story of time and change throughout the history of the universal . the style of the documentary or edit style of the interview begin and end with a quick fade to black . almost like blink in between segment and interview and the documentary give you an odd feeling like this be the view point of stephen hawk and not the eye of the camera . the running time be only a little long than an hour . it be a short story and then again and it subject matter could be talk about for day and day . an interesting and proud story .