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.

Paul Frees
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Jon Else
as Interviewer

J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self (archive footage)

Hans Bethe
as Self

Frank Oppenheimer
as Self

Haakon Chevalier
as Self

Robert Serber
as Self

Holm Bursom
as Self

Stirling Colgate
as Self

Freeman Dyson
as Self