The Day After Trinity
Jon Else1981-01-20
7.5
89 min
Through interviews with Manhattan Project scientists and newly declassified archival footage, this documentary examines the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his leadership of the Manhattan Project. The film traces the development and testing of the first atomic bomb and follows Oppenheimer’s later opposition to nuclear proliferation during the early years of the Cold War.
Cast
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Paul Frees | Self - Narrator (voice) | Unowned |
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Jon Else | Interviewer | Unowned |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Hans Bethe | Self | Unowned |
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Frank Oppenheimer | Self | Unowned |
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Haakon Chevalier | Self | Unowned |
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Robert Serber | Self | Unowned |
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Holm Bursom | Self | Unowned |
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Stirling Colgate | Self | Unowned |
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Freeman Dyson | Self | Unowned |
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Susan Evans | Self | Unowned |
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Francis Fergusson | Self | Unowned |
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Leslie Groves | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Elizabeth Ingram | Self | Unowned |
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Robert Krohn | Self | Unowned |
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Dave MacDonald | Self | Unowned |
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Joseph McCarthy | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Dorothy McKibben | Self | Unowned |
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Robert Porton | Self | Unowned |
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Isidor Isaac Rabi | Self | Unowned |
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Harry S. Truman | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Francoise Ulam | Self | Unowned |
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Stanislaw Ulam | Self | Unowned |
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Jane Wilson | Self | Unowned |
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Robert R. Wilson | Self | Unowned |