No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Paul FreesSelf - Narrator (voice)
Jon ElseSelf - Interviewer
J. Robert OppenheimerSelf (archive footage)
Hans BetheSelf
Frank Oppenheimer
Haakon ChevalierSelf
Robert SerberSelf
Freeman DysonSelfExplore the crew
- Writer
- Jon Else
- Director
- Jon Else
- Writer
- David Webb Peoples
- Writer
- Janet Peoples
- Editor
- Ralph Wikke
- Editor
- David Webb Peoples
- Producer
- Jon Else