Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

- Season 1

(2012)

Hawking tackles the question: Is there a meaning to life? Is there a purpose to our existence? Hawking explores this fascinating territory with fearless zeal as he questions the very nature of reality. You'll never look at yourself the same way again.

Hawking poses the ultimate of ultimate questions: Why does the universe exist and why does it follow rules and laws? Finding out leads to the very deepest of secrets, to the one principle that's at the heart of everything in the cosmos -- string theory.

Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Is there a god who created and controls the universe in which we live? To answer this controversial and age old question, Hawking takes us on a journey through humanity's history of appraising our place in the Universe - from Vikings facing down eclipses to the laws of modern cosmology.