J. Robert Oppenheimer
Biography
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer was among those who observed the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945.
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Movie Appearances
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Day After Trinity
as Self (archive footage)
1981
Oppenheimer After Trinity
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
as Self (archive footage)
1995
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Oppenheimer: The Real Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Hugh Bradner Films (Los Alamos)
as self
1945
The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project
as Self (archive footage)
2000
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
as Self
1965
Los Alamos: The Beginning
as Self (archive footage)
1982
Bellum - The Daemon of War
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?
as Self (archive footage)
2024
A Compassionate Spy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Le Syndrome du Titanic
as Self (archive sound)
2009
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
1970
Atomic People
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Destroyer of Worlds
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