
1981
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.

Paul Frees
Self - Narrator (voice)

Jon Else
Interviewer

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)

Hans Bethe
Self

Frank Oppenheimer
Self

Haakon Chevalier
Self

Robert Serber
Self

Holm Bursom
Self

Stirling Colgate
Self

Freeman Dyson
Self

Susan Evans
Self

Francis Fergusson
Self

Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Ingram
Self

Robert Krohn
Self

Dave MacDonald
Self

Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)

Dorothy McKibben
Self

Robert Porton
Self

Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self

Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)

Francoise Ulam
Self

Stanislaw Ulam
Self

Jane Wilson
Self

Robert R. Wilson
Self

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