Oppenheimer

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  E1

  Episode 1

  1938: Robert Oppenheimer's life is changed by the discovery of nuclear fission and the appearance of Kitty Harrison.

  1980-10-29 · 50m
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  E2

  Episode 2

  1942: America is at war. Oppenheimer is engaged in the race to produce an atomic bomb.

  1980-11-03 · 50m
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  E3

  Episode 3

  1943: Oppenheimer is director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI.

  1980-11-12 · 50m
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  E4

  Episode 4

  Summer 1944: Oppenheimer has problems with his staff and the development of the bomb.

  1980-11-19 · 50m
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  E5

  Episode 5

  May 1945: The European war is over but the war with Japan continues. Oppenheimer discusses the use of the almost completed atomic bomb with the secretary of War. His colleagues have misgivings.

  1980-11-27 · 50m
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  E6

  Episode 6

  1949 - The Oppenheimer family becomes a target of the HUAC hearings.

  1980-12-03 · 50m
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  E7

  Episode 7

  December 1953 - Oppenheimer falls foul of the Communist witch hunt.

  1980-12-10 · 50m
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Top cast

Sam Waterston

Robert Oppenheimer

John Carson

Narrator

Shane Rimmer

Ed Condon

Alexander Knox

Henry Stimson

Jana Shelden

Kitty Oppenheimer

Phil Brown

Lewis Strauss

Edward Hardwicke

Enrico Fermi

David Suchet

Edward Teller

James Maxwell

Lloyd Garrison

Milton Johns

George Kistiakowsky

Barry Dennen

Isidor Rabi

Bob Sherman

Ernest Lawrence