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?"

Documentary History

Campbell Scott

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Boyd Gaines

(Chairman Gray (voice))

Daniel Gerroll

(Colonel Pash)

Michael Stuhlbarg

(Edward Teller)

Ellen Katz

(The Stenographer)

Michael Cumpsty

Harold Agnew

(Self)

Jeremy Bernstein

(Self)

Freeman Dyson

(Self)

Richard Rhodes

(Self)

Martin J. Sherwin

(Self)

Joseph McCarthy

(Self (archive footage))

J. Robert Oppenheimer

(Self (archive footage))

David Strathairn

(J. Robert Oppenheimer)

Herbert York

(Self)

Marvin L. Goldberger

(Self)

Priscilla McMillan

(Self)

Robert Christy

(Self)

Roy Glauber

(Self)

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))