J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

4/22/1904 – 2/18/1967New 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.

Filmography (26 titles)

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Oppenheimer und die Bombe

Self (archive footage) · 2025

Atomic People8.4Movie

Atomic People

Self (archive footage) · 2024

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War7.9Show

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Self - Physicist (archive footage) · 2024

Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?Movie

Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?

Self (archive footage) · 2024

Oppenheimer: The Real Story8.1Movie

Oppenheimer: The Real Story

Self (archive footage) · 2023

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb7.7Movie

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

Self (archive footage) · 2023

Oppenheimer After Trinity7.7Movie

Oppenheimer After Trinity

Self (archive footage) · 2023

A Compassionate Spy6.2Movie

A Compassionate Spy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2022

Bellum - The Daemon of WarMovie

Bellum - The Daemon of War

Self (archive footage) · 2021

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress7.7Movie

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Self (archive footage) · 2019

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb8.5Movie

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

Self (archive footage) · 2015

Awake: The Life of Yogananda6.7Movie

Awake: The Life of Yogananda

Self (archive footage) · 2014

Le Syndrome du Titanic5.9Movie

Le Syndrome du Titanic

Self (archive sound) · 2009

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer6.2Movie

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage) · 2008

Hiroshima7.2Movie

Hiroshima

Self (archive footage) · 2005

The Moment in Time: The Manhattan ProjectMovie

The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project

Self (archive footage) · 2000

Nixon6.8Movie

Nixon

(Archive footage) · 1995

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie7.2Movie

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Self (archive footage) · 1995

Los Alamos: The BeginningMovie

Los Alamos: The Beginning

Self (archive footage) · 1982

The Day After Trinity7.6Movie

The Day After Trinity

Self (archive footage) · 1980

Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 19457.5Movie

Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

Self (voice) (archive footage) · 1970

Too Near the Sun7.0Movie

Too Near the Sun

self (archive footage) · 1966

The Decision to Drop the Bomb6.7Movie

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Self · 1965

Crusade in Europe7.3Show

Crusade in Europe

Self (archive footage) · 1949

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