The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2008)

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?"

Cast

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

Crew

Director
D David Grubin
Writer
D David Grubin
Writer
C Charles Olivier
Director of Photography
J James Callanan
Editor
D Deborah Peretz
Editor
K Kate Taverna
Executive Producer
Mark Samels
Executive Producer
N Nick Fraser
Producer
D David Grubin
Co-Producer
Dan Cogan
Co-Producer
T Tania Castellanos