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Oppenheimer

The life of J Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist appointed by the US in the race to develop the atomic bomb before the Nazis. But winning that race comes at a cost.

The life of J Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist appointed by the US to run the Manhattan Project, their bid to develop the atomic bomb before the Nazis. Brilliant as he is, winning that race comes at a cost, and amidst his guilt and grief at what he's done, he is also suspected by the authorities of being a communist spy.

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2 hours, 49 minutes

Last on

Tue 23 Dec 202523:00
BBC Three

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J Robert OppenheimerCillian Murphy
Kitty OppenheimerEmily Blunt
Leslie GrovesMatt Damon
Lewis StraussRobert Downey Jr
Jean TatlockFlorence Pugh
Ernest LawrenceJosh Hartnett
Boris PashCasey Affleck
David HillRami Malek
Niels BohrKenneth Branagh
Edward TellerBenny Safdie
Robert SerberMichael Angarano
Robert RobbJason Clarke
Frank OppenheimerDylan Arnold
Albert EinsteinTom Conti
Patrick BlackettJames D'Arcy
Harry TrumanGary Oldman
Vannevar BushMatthew Modine
Seth NeddemeyerDevon Bostick
Isidor RabiDavid Krumholtz
Haakon ChevalierJefferson Hall
CounselScott Grimes
Ward EvansJohn Gowans
William BordenDavid Dastmalchian
Kenneth NicholsDane DeHaan
Senate AideAlden Ehrenreich
Gordon GrayTony Goldwyn
Lloyd GarrisonMacon Blair
Werner HeisenbergMatthias Schweighöfer
Rossi LomanitzJosh Zuckerman
Ruth TolmanLouise Lombard
Richard TolmanTom Jenkins
Richard FeynmanJack Quaid
Hans BetheGustaf Skarsgard
Kurt GödelJames Urbaniak
George KistiakowskyTrond Fausa Aurvaag
Klaus FuchsChristopher Denham
Enrico FermiDanny Deferrari
Lilli HornigOlivia Thirlby
Henry StimsonJames Remar
Leo SzilardMate Haumann
DirectorChristopher Nolan
WriterChristopher Nolan
WriterKai Bird
WriterMartin Sherwin
ProducerCharles Roven
ProducerEmma Thomas
ProducerChristopher Nolan

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