Documentary History
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"
Directed by
David Grubin
Written by
David Grubin, Charles Olivier
Campbell Scott
Self - Narrator (voice)
Michael Stuhlbarg
Edward Teller
David Strathairn
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Michael Cumpsty
Boyd Gaines
Chairman Gray (voice)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Gerroll
Colonel Pash
Harry S. Truman
Self (Archive Footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Edward Teller
Self (archive footage)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Lewis Strauss
Self (archive footage)
Freeman Dyson
Self
Martin J. Sherwin
Self
Ellen Katz
The Stenographer
Harold Agnew
Self
Richard Rhodes
Self
Herbert York
Self
Marvin L. Goldberger
Self
Priscilla McMillan
Self
Robert Christy
Self
Roy Glauber
Self

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