The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008)

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?"

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  • Release Date: 2008-03-24
  • Runtime: 1h 49min
  • Director: David Grubin

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Cast

  • Campbell Scott

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Boyd Gaines

    Chairman Gray (voice)

  • Daniel Gerroll

    Colonel Pash

  • Michael Stuhlbarg

    Edward Teller

  • Ellen Katz

    The Stenographer

  • Michael Cumpsty

  • Harold Agnew

    Self

  • Jeremy Bernstein

    Self

  • Freeman Dyson

    Self

  • Richard Rhodes

    Self

  • Martin J. Sherwin

    Self

  • Joseph McCarthy

    Self (archive footage)

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer

    Self (archive footage)

  • David Strathairn

    J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • Herbert York

    Self

  • Marvin L. Goldberger

    Self

  • Priscilla McMillan

    Self

  • Robert Christy

    Self

  • Roy Glauber

    Self

  • Harry S. Truman

    Self (Archive Footage)

  • J. Edgar Hoover

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lewis Strauss

    Self (archive footage)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Self (archive footage)

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

  • Edward Teller

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

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