Ghosts of Hiroshima
The true story of a Japanese man during World War II who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, got on a train to Nagasaki, and then survived the nuclear explosion in that city.
The Day After Trinity
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential endeavors of the twentieth century to an outspoken opponent of nuclear proliferation who came to deeply regret his role in ushering in the perils of the atomic age.
Top Billed Cast
Paul Frees Self - Narrator (voice)
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
Harry S. Truman Self (archive footage)
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