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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Directed by David Grubin
2023    1h 49m
7.4
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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Cast of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Campbell ScottNarrator (voice)
  • Boyd GainesChairman Gray (voice)
  • Daniel GerrollColonel Pash
  • Michael StuhlbargEdward Teller
  • Ellen KatzThe Stenographer
  • Michael Cumpsty
  • Harold AgnewSelf
  • Jeremy BernsteinSelf
  • Freeman DysonSelf
  • Richard RhodesSelf
  • Martin J. SherwinSelf
  • Joseph McCarthySelf (archive footage)
  • J. Robert OppenheimerSelf (archive footage/photos)
  • David StrathairnJ. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Herbert YorkSelf
  • Marvin L. GoldbergerSelf
  • Priscilla McMillanSelf
  • Robert ChristySelf
  • Roy GlauberSelf
  • Harry S. TrumanSelf (Archive Footage)
  • J. Edgar HooverSelf (Archive Footage/Photos)
  • Lewis StraussSelf (Archive Photos)
  • Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (Archive Photos)
  • Eleanor RooseveltSelf (Archive Footage)
  • Edward TellerSelf (Archive Footage/Photos)
  • Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (Archive Footage)
  • Zoë WanamakerSelf- Narrator

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