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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

5.9 109 mins Documentary   History   2008
GBH  
Director(s): David Grubin

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?"

Casts of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Campbell Scott

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Boyd Gaines

as Chairman Gray (voice)

Daniel Gerroll

as Colonel Pash

Michael Stuhlbarg

as Edward Teller

Ellen Katz

as The Stenographer

Harold Agnew

as Self

Freeman Dyson

as Self

Richard Rhodes

as Self

Joseph McCarthy

as Self (archive footage)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

as Self (archive footage)

David Strathairn

as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Herbert York

as Self

Robert Christy

as Self

Roy Glauber

as Self

Harry S. Truman

as Self (Archive Footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

as Self (archive footage)

Lewis Strauss

as Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

Edward Teller

as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

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