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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Genre:DocumentaryHistory

Released:2008-03-24

Runtime:109

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?"


Cast:

Campbell Scott

Character: Self - Narrator (voice)

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Boyd Gaines

Character: Chairman Gray (voice)

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Daniel Gerroll

Character: Colonel Pash

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Michael Stuhlbarg

Character: Edward Teller

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Ellen Katz

Character: The Stenographer

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Michael Cumpsty

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Harold Agnew

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Jeremy Bernstein

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Freeman Dyson

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Richard Rhodes

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Martin J. Sherwin

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Joseph McCarthy

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Character: Self (archive footage)

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David Strathairn

Character: J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Herbert York

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Marvin L. Goldberger

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Priscilla McMillan

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Robert Christy

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Roy Glauber

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Harry S. Truman

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Lewis Strauss

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Edward Teller

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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