
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: 3/24/2008
Runtime: 109 minutes
Languages: English
Director: David Grubin
00Companies: GBH
Countries: United States of America
Colonel Pash

Campbell Scott
Self - Narrator (voice)

Boyd Gaines
Chairman Gray (voice)

Daniel Gerroll
Colonel Pash

Michael Stuhlbarg
Edward Teller
Ellen Katz
The Stenographer

Michael Cumpsty
Harold Agnew
Self
Jeremy Bernstein
Self

Freeman Dyson
Self
Richard Rhodes
Self

Martin J. Sherwin
Self

Joseph McCarthy
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