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1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 732,246 | Gross: $326.11M
2. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack
Votes: 9,135 | Gross: $3.56M
3. The Manhattan Project (1986)
PG-13 | 117 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as a nuclear medical research facility in Ithaca, NY.
Director: Marshall Brickman | Stars: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan
Votes: 6,871 | Gross: $3.90M
4. The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb (2015)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History, War
The story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.
Stars: Andreas Döhler, Marc Ben Puch, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Anna Friel
Votes: 7,776
5. Infinity (1996)
PG | 119 min | Biography, Drama
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Director: Matthew Broderick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Force, Peter Riegert
Votes: 1,999 | Gross: $0.20M
6. Copenhagen (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, War
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the... See full summary »
Director: Howard Davies | Stars: Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, Francesca Annis
Votes: 1,137
7. The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2010)
109 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Profile of Robert Oppenheimer, controversial father of the atomic bomb.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Marvin L. Goldberger, Priscilla McMillan, Richard Rhodes, Martin Sherwin
Votes: 225
8. The Fearmakers (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 849
9. Nine Days of One Year (1962)
111 min | Drama
Nuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.
Director: Mikhail Romm | Stars: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov
Votes: 1,264
10. Einstein's Big Idea (2005 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
This docudrama examines the history of scientific discovery that lead up to Albert Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 and its aftermath in the creation of nuclear energy. This includes ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Johnstone | Stars: Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy
Votes: 639
11. The Thief (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Grapel
Votes: 1,253
12. World for Ransom (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny
Votes: 628
13. I'll Never Forget You (1951)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price
Votes: 1,070
14. Die Laughing (1980)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A San Francisco cab driver finds himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased all over town by people trying to get the formula.
Director: Jeff Werner | Stars: Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 328
15. Critical Assembly (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two college students (Heigl and Smith) build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against time.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Kerr Smith, J. August Richards, Jeff Roop
Votes: 420
16. The Nuclear Boy Scout (2003 TV Short)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him ... See full summary »
Director: Bindu Mathur | Star: David Hahn
Votes: 49
17. Store danskere (2003– )
38 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series portraying significant Danes throughout history.
Stars: Ulf Pilgaard, Kirsten Passer, Lone Hertz, Ruth Brejnholm
Votes: 17
18. Niels Bohr - Verdens bedste menneske (2023)
76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Who was Niels Bohr and what impression did he leave on the world? How did Niels Bohr manage to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics already at the age of 38? Why did Germany, the Soviet ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie Breyen, Anna von Lowzow, Carsten Dahl | Stars: Anja C. Andersen, Niels Bohr, Tomas Bohr, Gennady Gorelik
Votes: 19
19. Paco (II) (2009)
128 min | Drama
The story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs, his mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.
Director: Diego Rafecas | Stars: Tomás Fonzi, Norma Aleandro, Esther Goris, Romina Ricci
Votes: 439
20. Vybor tseli (1975)
158 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Igor Talankin | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Nikolay Volkov, Irina Skobtseva
Votes: 88
21. Operation Sunflower (2014)
105 min | Drama, History
Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
Director: Avraham Kushnir | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Baruch Brener, Daniella Kertesz, Tzufit Grant
Votes: 53
22. A Is for Atom (1953)
14 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
Director: Carl Urbano | Star: John Hiestand
Votes: 107
23. Werner Heisenberg (2011)
Documentary
Stars: Hans-Peter Dürr, Martin Heisenberg, Michael Tregor, Andreas Kumpf
24. Element 112: The Marinov Affair (2015)
50 min | Documentary, Biography, History
There are some people whose curiosity and quest for knowledge does not let them linger about idly and becomes the journey of their lives. This is the story of the courage and determination ... See full summary »
Directors: Dror Shostak, Rama Marinov Cohen | Star: Dror Shostak
26. Twilight (Physics in the Twilight) (1995)
Documentary, Short
Is Physics coming to an end? Documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Gold explores how the natural limitations of experimentation is preventing theory from being tested at the levels to which we've ... See full summary »
Director: Jeffrey Gold | Stars: Peter Fivas, Richard Price
Votes: 15
27.
Modern Marvels (1993– )
Episode:
The Manhattan Project
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Encouraged by Leo Szilard and galvanized by German success in achieving nuclear fission, the United States embarks on a crash program to build a nuclear bomb. Aided by many Jewish ... See full summary »
Director: Sean Dash | Stars: Lloyd Sherr, William Lanouette, Robert Christy, Albert Einstein
Votes: 75
28.
The Mike Wallace Interview (1957–1960)
Episode:
Ralph Lapp
(1957)
Talk-Show
Mike Wallace interviews Ralph Lapp (1917-2004), American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, authored the book "Victims of the Super Bomb" (1957), and coined the term "The China Syndrome" (1971).
Director: Jack Sameth | Stars: Mike Wallace, Ralph E. Lapp
29.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 13 September 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Heckscher interview W. Albert Noyes, chemist, and the winner of the 1954 Priestley Award presented by the American Chemical Society. Topics include the need for the United ... See full summary »
Stars: August Heckscher, Larry LeSueur, W. Albert Noyes
30.
Signes des temps (1972–1975)
Episode:
Les historiens
(1972)
56 min | Documentary
Director: Jean-Claude Bringuier | Stars: Fernand Braudel, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jacques Legoff, Alain Schnapp
31.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
History's Most Forgotten Scientific Geniuses
(2021)
11 min | Documentary
Who developed the scientific method? Who discovered nuclear fission? Who invented the number of zero? Algebra? The ten digit number system? Many little known scientists and mathematicians ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
32.
The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode:
Pilot
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a coma, nine months after he was hit by lightning, and discovers he has superhuman speed.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Rick Cosnett
Votes: 9,536
33.
Hard Quiz (2016– )
Episode:
Episode #3.14
(2018)
26 min | Comedy, Game-Show
The show's scathing host, Tom Gleeson, quizzes Liv (Thunderbirds expert), Matt (Sydney Swans expert), Brad (Rubik's cube expert) and Mark (nuclear physics expert). Who will earn the show's coveted Big Brass Mug?
Directors: Richard Franc, Jon Olb | Stars: Tom Gleeson, Brad, Liv, Mark