Language

There is infrequent very mild bad language.

A radio news report refers to a woman's death in a car accident, but the incident is not described in detail.

Threat and horror

There are scenes in which characters are placed in dangerous situations when they fly through storms and to heights at which they are exposed to very cold conditions.

Injury detail

There is brief injury detail including scenes of frostbite and some bloody head injuries after a fall.

There is also very mild bad language ('God', 'damn').

Language

There is infrequent mild bad language ('bugger').

Theme

The film deals with the effect the death of Darwin's daughter had on his family, and there are scenes in which she lies gravely ill in bed. There are also scenes in which a bird falls from its nest and is subsequently consumed by insects and a slug, and a scene in which a foetus opens its mouth to scream. The first scene illustrates Darwin's theories on the cycle of life, whilst the second scene indicates his declining mental health.

The film also contains a couple of scenes of natural child nudity.

Discrimination

The film portrays the racial divisions in America at the time, with segregated facilities for black and white personnel, and black people being held back from progress and promotion. Although no overtly abusive racist language or behaviour is shown, terms such as 'negro' and 'coloured' are employed by both black and white characters as matter-of-fact expressions. There are also examples of gender discrimination, again reflecting the attitudes of the time.

Language

There is mild bad language ('bastards'). Very mild bad language includes uses of 'damn', 'Jesus Christ' and 'God'.

There is also mild tension when a spacecraft suffers a technical malfunction that places an astronaut in danger.

Disturbing images

There are scenes depicting the bombing of Hiroshima and the Chernobyl meltdown, as well as scenes showing injured soldiers and horses on WWI battlefields. In one scene, a man is knocked down and killed by a horse-drawn cart.

Injury detail

There is brief sight of bloodied and burned soldiers during the wartime sequences, as well as images of victims of the Hiroshima bombing and Chernobyl disaster, exhibiting radiation burns.

Language

Moderate bad language includes a use of 'whore'.

Sex

There is a brief scene in which a couple make love.

Other issues include discriminatory language and behaviour (eg 'dirty Pole') and brief natural nudity.

Sex

In one scene, the cover and pages of a glamour magazine are seen briefly. The images feature partial breast nudity and women in sexualised poses.

Language

There is mild bad language, including uses of 'God', 'damn', 'sod off' and 'tits'.

The film also contains mild sex references, scenes set in operating theatres but without strong surgical detail, and moments of emotional upset as Hawking and those around him struggle to cope with his medical condition.

Sex

There are moderate sex references including references to characters wanting sex and to sex being 'nothing more than an exchange of fluids'. There is also a sequence in which a woman grabs her partner's crotch in order to instigate sex.

Theme

A character suffers from mental health issues. The character is seen being treated for schizophrenia in a mental institution where he receives electronic shock therapy.

There is mild bad language including uses of the terms 'dick', 'arsehole', 'damn', 'shit', 'Jesus Christ', 'bastards' and 'screw up'.

Discrimination

In one scene Ramanujan is approached by a group of former Cambridge undergraduates, now soldiers in uniform. One says, 'Look who it is, the little wog, the freeloading little blackie'. Ramanujan is then knocked to the ground and kicked several times, the blows landing below frame. In another scene a lecturer, jealous of Ramanujan's mathematical brilliance, says to him, 'Little wog, let me tell you something. You don't pull a stunt like that in my class'.

Other issues include: some mild threat and injury detail as a German Zeppelin drops bombs on Cambridge; mild bad language, including several uses of 'bloody'; and scenes of adult cigarette smoking.

Violence

There are occasional scenes of moderate violence in scenes of rioting between Christians, Romans and Jews including stabbings, blows to the head and stonings. These sometimes include sight of blood, although stronger images occur in the aftermath of violent scenes such as sight of a decapitated corpse and a head wound being sewn up.

There is also a brief scene in which a woman is threatened with sexual violence, but the attacker soon realises what he is doing is wrong and stops.

There is brief rear female nudity. A woman also presents an admirer with a symbolic gift of a cloth stained with blood from her menstrual cycle.

Sex

A man tells a joke, suggesting oral sex, in which he refers to a woman putting something in her mouth while she's humming a tune. A man also says that he's being held in a police station before he's accused of 'entreating a man to touch my penis', with further undetailed references to his homosexuality. There are also comments about a man undergoing chemical castration through hormone treatment.

Other issues include mild bad language, with uses of 'sod', 'bleeding', 'bloody', 'Christ', 'hell', 'bastards' and 'arse'. There are also uses of discriminatory language, including 'poofter' and 'kyke'.

There are scenes of mild violence, including a man being punched and left with a bloody lip, and a man being slapped around the face. There is archive footage of war, including ships and planes being blown up, and burning cityscapes and rubble-strewn streets after the Blitz. A young boy is bullied at school, including being nailed in under some floorboards before he is rescued by a friend.

Several characters are seen to smoke, reflecting the wartime era.