
The Day After Trinity
NR1981·89 min·Released
Studio: KTEH
7.6TMDb
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Theatrical Jan 20, 1981
🇺🇸
USA · English · USA
Overview
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.
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Crew
DirectorJon Else
WriterJon Else, David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples
Cast

Paul Frees
Self - Narrator (voice)

Jon Else
Self - Interviewer

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)

Hans Bethe
Self

Frank Oppenheimer
Self

Haakon Chevalier
Self

Robert Serber
Self
Holm Bursom
Self
Stirling Colgate
Self

Freeman Dyson
Self
Susan Evans
Self
Francis Fergusson
Self

Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Ingram
Self
Robert Krohn
Self
Dave MacDonald
Self

Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Dorothy McKibben
Self
Robert Porton
Self

Isidor Isaac Rabi
Self
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Keywords
atomic bombatomic bomb test1940smanhattan project
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