Poster of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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?"

Release Date: 2008-03-24

Original Language: en

Genres: Unknown Genre

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Cast Members

Campbell Scott

Self - Narrator (voice)

Boyd Gaines

Chairman Gray (voice)

Daniel Gerroll

Colonel Pash

Michael Stuhlbarg

Edward Teller

Ellen Katz

The Stenographer

Joseph McCarthy

Self (archive footage)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

David Strathairn

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Harry S. Truman

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

Self (archive footage)