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5.8

8 reviews

History/Drama

2h 21m

1989

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given...

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Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

DirectorJoseph Sargent
Release12 May 1989
Genre
History / Drama
Duration2h 21m
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5.8
8 reviews
Productions
World International Network (WIN), Spelling Entertainment, AT&T

8 reviews

History/Drama

2h 21m

1989

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Cast

Brian Dennehy

Gen. Leslie Groves

David Strathairn

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Michael Tucker

Leo Szilard

Hume Cronyn

James F. Byrnes

Richard Dysart

President Harry S. Truman

Hal Holbrook

Gen. George Marshall

Barnard Hughes

Henry Stimson

John McMartin

Dr. Arthur Compton

David Ogden Stiers

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anne Twomey

Kitty Oppenheimer

Lawrence Dane

Ron Frazier

Colonel Pash

Olek Krupa

Edward Teller

Bernie McInerney

Ken Pogue

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gary Reineke

Groves's Commanding Officer

Alan Scarfe

John Seitz

Ralph A. Bard

Tony Shalhoub

Enrico Fermi

Ron White

Colonel Nichols

Patrick Breen

Richard Feynman

Vlasta Vrana

Hans Bethe

Lorne Brass

Klaus Fuchs

Michael Sinelnikoff

Lord Rutherford

Kliment Denchev

Michael Polanyi

Timothy Webber

Colonel Lansdale

Harry Standjofski

Robert Wilson

Lia Sargent

Mrs. Wisnovsky

David Gow

Jack Wisnovsky

Isabelle Mejias

Mrs. Trowbridge

Jonathan Wise

Robert Serber

George R. Robertson

Ed Condon

Dee McCafferty

William 'Deke' Parsons

Tom Butler

Captain DeSilva

David Ferry

Army Major

Michael J. Reynolds

Kenneth Bainbridge

Scott Thomson

Chemist

Roland Hewgill

Army General

Arthur Holden