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.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- KTEH
Keywords
- atomic bomb
- atomic bomb test
- 1940s
- manhattan project
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Top 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
Top Crew
Jon Else · Director, Writer
David Webb Peoples · Writer, Editor
Janet Peoples · Writer
Ralph Wikke · Editor
Peter R. Baker · Executive Producer
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