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.
Cast
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
Crew
Jon Else
Director, Writer, Producer
David Webb Peoples
Writer, Editor
Janet Peoples
Writer
Ralph Wikke
Editor
Peter R. Baker
Executive Producer
Courtney Flavin
Associate Producer
Martha Olson
Associate Producer
Kathryn Witte
Associate Producer
David Espar
Camera Operator
Stephen Lighthill
Camera Operator
Tom McDonough
Camera Operator
Michael Chin
Assistant Camera
Peter Schnall
Assistant Camera
Paul Marbury
First Assistant Camera
Luther Greene
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Will Harvey
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Samantha Heilwell
Sound
Steve Longstreth
Sound
Morning Slayter
Sound
Martin Bresnick
Music
Tom Stern
Location Manager
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