The Day After Trinity
1980, Film, 88 min, Biography, Documentary, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 70
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.
Directed by Jon Else
Cast
- Hans Bethe as Self
- Holm Bursom as Self
- Haakon Chevalier as Self
- Stirling Colgate as Self
- Freeman Dyson as Self
- Jon Else as Interviewer
- Susan Evans as Self
- Francis Fergusson as Self
- Paul Frees as Narrator
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