The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008)
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?"
Director: David Grubin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/oppenheimer/
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Campbell Scott as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Boyd Gaines as Chairman Gray (voice) |
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Daniel Gerroll as Colonel Pash |
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Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward Teller |
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Ellen Katz as The Stenographer |
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Michael Cumpsty as |
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Harold Agnew as Self |
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Jeremy Bernstein as Self |
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Freeman Dyson as Self |
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Richard Rhodes as Self |
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Martin J. Sherwin as Self |
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Joseph McCarthy as Self (archive footage) |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self (archive footage) |
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David Strathairn as J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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Herbert York as Self |
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Marvin L. Goldberger as Self |
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Priscilla McMillan as Self |
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Robert Christy as Self |
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Roy Glauber as Self |
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Harry S. Truman as Self (Archive Footage) |
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J. Edgar Hoover as Self (archive footage) |
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Lewis Strauss as Self (archive footage) |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage) |
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Eleanor Roosevelt as Self (archive footage) |
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Edward Teller as Self (archive footage) |
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Lyndon B. Johnson as Self (archive footage) |
| Writing | David Grubin | Writer |
| Writing | Charles Olivier | Writer |
| Camera | James Callanan | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Deborah Peretz | Editor |
| Editing | Kate Taverna | Editor |
| Production | Mark Samels | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nick Fraser | Executive Producer |
| Production | David Grubin | Producer |
| Production | Dan Cogan | Co-Producer |
| Production | Tania Castellanos | Co-Producer |
| Directing | David Grubin | Director |