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.

Known For

Crusade in Europe

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Hiroshima

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

The Day After Trinity

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Atomic People

All Movies (21)

• Atomic People2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We?2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Oppenheimer: The Real Story2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Oppenheimer After Trinity2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Compassionate Spy2022 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Bellum - The Daemon of War2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Awake: The Life of Yogananda2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Le Syndrome du Titanic2009 · as Self (archive sound)
• The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hiroshima2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Moment in Time: The Manhattan Project2000 · as Self (archive footage)
• Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• Los Alamos: The Beginning1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Day After Trinity1980 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 19451970 · as Self (voice) (archive footage)
• The Decision to Drop the Bomb1965 · as Self
• Hugh Bradner Films (Los Alamos)1945 · as self
• The Destroyer of Worlds—

All TV Shows (2)

• Oppenheimer und die Bombe2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• Crusade in Europe1949 · as Self (archive footage)