The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

David Grubin
2008-03-24


5.9
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?"

Cast

Name Character Team
Campbell Scott Self - Narrator (voice) Unowned
Boyd Gaines Chairman Gray (voice) Unowned
Daniel Gerroll Colonel Pash Unowned
Michael Stuhlbarg Edward Teller Goutbreak
Ellen Katz The Stenographer Unowned
Michael Cumpsty Unowned
Harold Agnew Self Unowned
Jeremy Bernstein Self Unowned
Freeman Dyson Self Unowned
Richard Rhodes Self Unowned
Martin J. Sherwin Self Unowned
Joseph McCarthy Self (archive footage) Unowned
J. Robert Oppenheimer Self (archive footage) Unowned
David Strathairn J. Robert Oppenheimer Zac E. Chan
Herbert York Self Unowned
Marvin L. Goldberger Self Unowned
Priscilla McMillan Self Unowned
Robert Christy Self Unowned
Roy Glauber Self Unowned
Harry S. Truman Self (Archive Footage) Unowned
J. Edgar Hoover Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lewis Strauss Self (archive footage) Unowned
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self (archive footage) Unowned
Eleanor Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Unowned
Edward Teller Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lyndon B. Johnson Self (archive footage) Unowned