Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of the Manhattan Project. The film traces the development and testing of the first atomic bomb and follows Oppenheimer’s later opposition to nuclear proliferation during the early years of the Cold War.
Made in US
7.6/10
1981
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Cast
Paul Frees
As Self - Narrator (voice)
Jon Else
As Self - Interviewer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
As Self (archive footage)
Hans Bethe
As Self
Frank Oppenheimer
As Self
Haakon Chevalier
As Self
Robert Serber
As Self
Holm Bursom
As Self
Stirling Colgate
As Self
Freeman Dyson
As Self
Susan Evans
As Self
Francis Fergusson
As Self
Leslie Groves
As Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Ingram
As Self
Robert Krohn
As Self
Dave MacDonald
As Self
Joseph McCarthy
As Self (archive footage)
Dorothy McKibben
As Self
Robert Porton
As Self
Isidor Isaac Rabi
As Self
Harry S. Truman
As Self (archive footage)
Francoise Ulam
As Self
Stanislaw Ulam
As Self
Jane Wilson
As Self
Robert R. Wilson
As Self
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