In the days of my almost infinitely prolonged adolescence, I hardly took an action, hardly did anything that did not arouse in me a very great sense of revulsion and of wrong. My feeling about myself was always one of extreme discontent.
– J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a two-hour documentary film on the life of the brilliant and charismatic American nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), from his youth and emergence as one of America’s leading physicists, to his leadership of the Manhattan Project, and his most tragic humiliation during the anti-Communist witch-hunt in the 1950s.
The film was produced by David Grubin, and it features actor David Strathairn as Oppenheimer. You can watch it online for free. The transcript is also available.
