The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008J. 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?"
Acted in
Campbell Scott
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Boyd Gaines
as Chairman Gray (voice)
Daniel Gerroll
as Colonel Pash
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Edward Teller
Ellen Katz
as The Stenographer
Michael Cumpsty
Harold Agnew
as Self
Jeremy Bernstein
as Self
Freeman Dyson
as Self
Richard Rhodes
as Self
Martin J. Sherwin
as Self
Joseph McCarthy
as Self (archive footage)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self (archive footage)
David Strathairn
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Herbert York
as Self
Marvin L. Goldberger
as Self
Priscilla McMillan
as Self
Robert Christy
as Self
Roy Glauber
as Self
Harry S. Truman
as Self (Archive Footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
as Self (archive footage)
Lewis Strauss
as Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
as Self (archive footage)
Edward Teller
as Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
as Self (archive footage)