Documentary History
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.
Directed by
Jon Else
Written by
Janet Peoples, Jon Else, David Webb Peoples
Paul Frees
Self - Narrator (voice)
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Frank Oppenheimer
Self
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Freeman Dyson
Self
Hans Bethe
Self
Haakon Chevalier
Self
Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage)
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self
Robert Serber
Self
Holm Bursom
Self
Stirling Colgate
Self
Susan Evans
Self
Francis Fergusson
Self
Elizabeth Ingram
Self
Robert Krohn
Self
Dave MacDonald
Self
Dorothy McKibben
Self
Robert Porton
Self
Francoise Ulam
Self
Stanislaw Ulam
Self
Jane Wilson
Self
Robert R. Wilson
Self

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