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5 March 1989 (USA)
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Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein...
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Won Primetime Emmy.
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Excellent Historical Documentary
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 | ... | Secretary Stimpson |
| John McMartin | ... | Dr. Arthur Compton |
 | David Ogden Stiers | ... | President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Anne Twomey | ... | Kitty Oppenheimer |
| Lawrence Dane | ||
| Ron Frazier | ... | Colonel Pash |
 | Olek Krupa | ... | Edward Teller |
| Bernie McInerney | ||
| John Pielmeier | ... | Seth |
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Hiroshima (UK) (DVD title)
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141 min
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Continuity: During the flight to Hiroshima, the footage alternates between a B-29 and a B-17. The B-17 engines are staggered on the wing from the fuselage, while the B-29 engines are straight on the wing.
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[reacting to the Trinity test]
J. Robert Oppenheimer: You know the Bhagavad-Gita? "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
Kenneth Bainbridge: Yeah. Now we're all sons of bitches.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: You know the Bhagavad-Gita? "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
Kenneth Bainbridge: Yeah. Now we're all sons of bitches.
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This is the best of the atomic-bomb movies, and unfortunately still only available in VHS. Dennehy's performance as General Groves and Strathairn (of Good Night and Good Luck) does an amazing job as Oppenheimer. The characterizations are not the usual Hollywood clichés of professional people and their behavior. Real scientists and generals do not stop to have melodramatic arguments with stilted language, as in "Fat Man and Little Boy".
It is also just an excellent job of portraying the history and science, but still remains a gripping human drama. We see the origins of the project in Europe, getting Einstein to write to the president, the issue of Soviet spies and Germany's failed efforts are described accurately, and the technical issues in building the bomb are accurate and interesting.