He'll play scientist Richard Feynman in the factual telepic about the fight for truth in the space shuttle Challenger investigation. By Lesley Goldberg "She was a star player. She was one of the ...

William Hurt has been cast as physicist Richard Feynman for an upcoming BBC/Science Channel drama about the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster. Ah, science dramas! Our ...

The Challenger Disaster: Feature film. 9 p.m. Saturday on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. We don't automatically think of science as the stuff of riveting filmmaking, but from "The ...

CORRECTS TO PHYSICIST, NOT PHYSICIAN - This image released by Science Channel shows William Hurt in a scene from the film "The Challenger Disaster." Hurt portrays Dr. Richard Feynman, the world-renown ...

William Hurt stars as Richard Feynman in the BBC2 drama The Challenger. The BBC and the Open University have teamed up to produce two television programmes about Richard Feynman – the ...

Four stars out of five: The Challenger Disaster: Feature film. 9 p.m. ET/PT Saturday on the Discovery Channel and Science Channel. SAN FRANCISCO — We don't automatically think of science as the stuff ...

LOS ANGELES – This weekend the Science Channel and Discovery Channel simulcast the Science Channel’s first scripted feature film, “The Challenger Disaster.” The movie spotlights the story of Nobel ...

Getting a dual American premiere Saturday, via Discovery and Science Channel, “The Challenger Disaster” is a BBC-made TV movie about physicist Richard Feynman (William Hurt) and the investigation into ...

“Hype” might be a strong word to use — but, really, how else to describe TV’s endless bombardment of JFK assassination specials as the 50th anniversary of that day in Dallas draws closer? Maybe that’s ...

Hollywood has hit dramatic pay dirt with scientific subjects over the years, from "Madame Curie" to "Apollo 13." For its first dramatic feature film, the Science Channel looked into the ...

When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986 it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight The deaths of seven astronauts including the first teacher in space Christa ...

The Challenger Disaster is a 2013 documentary film directed by Nathan VonMinden. The movie follows the events that led to the Challenger explosion in 1986. It showed the efforts of one man who went ...