J. Robert Oppenheimer

Known for ActingBorn 1904-04-22Died 1967-02-18New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Atomic People

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

Oppenheimer: The Real Story

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

Oppenheimer After Trinity

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

The Day After Trinity

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

Hiroshima

Awake: The Life of Yogananda

Crusade in Europe

A Compassionate Spy

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Le Syndrome du Titanic

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer und die Bombe

Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?

Bellum - The Daemon of War

The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project

Los Alamos: The Beginning

Hugh Bradner Films (Los Alamos)

The Destroyer of Worlds