The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008)

ALL 03/24/2008 (en) Documentary, History 109 Min
  • Release
    03/24/2008
  • Production
    GBH
  • Rotten tomato
    59%
  • Original title
    The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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?"

  1. David Grubin

    Director

  2. Story

  3. David Grubin

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Campbell Scott

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Boyd Gaines

    Chairman Gray (voice)

  3. Daniel Gerroll

    Colonel Pash

  4. Michael Stuhlbarg

    Edward Teller

  5. Ellen Katz

    The Stenographer

  6. Michael Cumpsty

  7. Harold Agnew

    Self

  8. Jeremy Bernstein

    Self

  9. Freeman Dyson

    Self

  10. Richard Rhodes

    Self

  11. Martin J. Sherwin

    Self

  12. Joseph McCarthy

    Self (archive footage)

  13. J. Robert Oppenheimer

    Self (archive footage)

  14. David Strathairn

    J. Robert Oppenheimer

  15. Herbert York

    Self

  16. Marvin L. Goldberger

    Self

  17. Priscilla McMillan

    Self

  18. Robert Christy

    Self

  19. Roy Glauber

    Self

  20. Harry S. Truman

    Self (Archive Footage)

  21. J. Edgar Hoover

    Self (archive footage)

  22. Lewis Strauss

    Self (archive footage)

  23. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Self (archive footage)

  24. Eleanor Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

  25. Edward Teller

    Self (archive footage)

  26. Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 26 , Crews : 11

Keyword

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008) 109 Min

ALL 03/24/2008 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 03/24/2008
  • Production
    GBH
  • Original title The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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?"

  1. David Grubin

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Kate Taverna, Deborah Peretz

    Editor

  4. David Grubin

    Producer