
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009)
109 min
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?"
- Release date
- March 24, 2008
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Marvin L. Goldberger as Self - Physicist
- Priscilla McMillan as Self - Author, 'The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer'
- Richard Rhodes as Self - Author, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'
- Martin Sherwin as Self - Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
- Herbert York as Self - Physicist
- Freeman Dyson as Self - Physicist
- Robert Christy as Self - Physicist
- Roy J. Glauber as Self - Physicist
- Harold Agnew as Self - Physicist
- Jeremy Bernstein as Self - Author, 'Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma'
Crew
- David Grubin · Director
- David Grubin · Writer
- Charles Olivier · Writer
- David Grubin · Producer
- James Callanan · Cinematographer
- Deborah Peretz · Editor
- Kate Taverna · Editor