The Day After Trinity (1981)

★ 7.6 1h 29m 22 votes IMDb
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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.

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Paul Frees
Paul Frees as Self - Narrator (voice) Died 1986 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920 – November 2, 1986), known professionally as Paul Frees, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist and screenwriter. He is best known for his voice work in c...
Jon Else
Jon Else as Self - Interviewer Age 82 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Jon H. Else is an American documentary filmmaker and professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He directs the documentary program..
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self (archive footage) Died 1967 · New York City, New York, USA J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is ofte...
Hans Bethe
Hans Bethe as Self Died 2005 · Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France] Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 No...
Frank Oppenheimer
Frank Oppenheimer as Self Died 1985 · New York City, New York, USA Frank Oppenheimer was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. A younger brother of re...
Haakon Chevalier
Haakon Chevalier as Self Died 1985 · Lakewood, New Jersey, USA Haakon Maurice Chevalier was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenhe...
Director Jon Else
Cast Paul Frees, Jon Else, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Frank Oppenheimer, Haakon Chevalier, Robert Serber, Holm Bursom, Stirling Colgate, Freeman Dyson

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