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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.
Directed by Jon Else
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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

Holm Bursom
Self

Stirling Colgate
Self

Freeman Dyson
Self

Susan Evans
Self

Francis Fergusson
Self
Downfall
2004