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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.
Amazon Video
Fandango At Home
Amazon Video
Fandango At Home
Paul Frees
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jon Else
Self - Interviewer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Hans Bethe
Self
Frank Oppenheimer
Self
Haakon Chevalier
Self
Robert Serber
Self
Freeman Dyson
Self
Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Stephen Lighthill
Camera Operator
Jon Else
Director
David Webb Peoples
Editor
Jon Else
Producer
David Webb Peoples
Writer
Janet Peoples
Writer
Jon Else
Writer
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Los Angeles premiere
Jan 20, 1981
New York release date
Apr 29, 1981
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