Menu

Movies

Release Calendar

Most Popular Movies

Browse Movies by Genre

Showtimes & Tickets

India Movie Spotlight

TV Shows

What's on TV & Streaming

Top 250 TV Shows

Most Popular TV Shows

Browse TV Shows by Genre

Watch

Latest Trailers

Awards & Events

Cannes Film Festival

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Summer Watch Guide

STARmeter Awards

Festival Central

Celebs

Most Popular Celebs

Community

Contributor Zone

For Industry Professionals

Language

English (United States)

Language

Fully supported
English (United States)

Partially supported

Français (Canada)
Français (France)
Deutsch (Deutschland)
हिंदी (भारत)
Italiano (Italia)
Português (Brasil)
Español (España)
Español (México)

AllAll

EN

Fully supported
English (United States)

Partially supported

Français (Canada)
Français (France)
Deutsch (Deutschland)
हिंदी (भारत)
Italiano (Italia)
Português (Brasil)
Español (España)
Español (México)

Cast & crew
User reviews

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

2014
TV-PG
1h 56m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)

Combative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the... Read allCombative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose t... Read allCombative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s. Later, R... Read all

Director
- Michael Pack
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Director
- Michael Pack
Stars

10User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos1

View Poster

Top cast24

Narrator
(voice)

Michael Stewart Allen

Dunford

Caspar Weinberger

Reagan

Chief of Staff

Peter Davenport

Lehman

Jonathan Fielding

Midshipman #1

Rickover's Aide

Antony Hagopian

Anderson
(as Anthony Hagopian)

Torsten N. Hillhouse

Beach
(as Torsten Hillhouse)

Engineer #2

Midshipman #2

Ted Rockwell

Panoff

George McDaniel

Supply Co. Executive

Roddis

Stevan Lee Mraovitch

Military police

Tim Blake Nelson

Admiral Rickover

Director
- Michael Pack
All cast & crew
Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

User reviews10

6.1146

Featured reviews

10garyrad-31845

Awesome

Tim Nelson is awesome in this. When I first started watching I thought he was overacting and the character was unrealistic but after seeing a lot of real footage recorded of Rickover I realized that this actor really nailed the character. Rickover himself was over- the-top. Tim Nelson is fantastic. Also, the actor who played Ronald Reagan was uncanny. I really enjoyed this production.

A fascinating personality, important history, well done documentary, criminally underrated

For reasons perhaps unfathomable, the ratings on this seem to have been driven down by some sort of brigade.

It's interesting history behind the birth of the nuclear navy.

It's a character study of the fascinating and quirky personality driving it all.

At first, Tim Blake Nelson's portrayal of Rickover seems kind of goofy and ridiculous, but then the documentary footage kicks in, and the acting job seems rather spot on.

Better than any Hollywood Movie

I was not expecting a 'Docu-Drama'... (I was hoping for a straight documentary).

But this is pretty close.. there is plenty of real footage of Admiral Rickover, whom I have never met... He resigned a year or 2 before I interviewed with Admiral McKee in Washington DC, to qualify for the Navy Nuclear Power Program.

Luckily, I was Accepted.

I hated the Navy, but I Am Proud to have Served Our Country by keeping Navy Nuclear Power Safe... USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

Admiral Rickover's experience with the US Navy and Beauracracy only vindicates my view that it truly takes a Maverick or iconoclast to buck the system and make things happen in this world, to make things Right.

The Naderites flooded this page with their hate

5.8 hmmmmmmmmm ... why?

Because the anti-progress folks organize to destroy truth. The documentary points out that nuclear power is not evil, as the left would have you believe. And make no mistake, the only reason they want you to believe that is so you will beg them to enslave you with anti-science solutions to all of humanities problems.

Nuclear energy is like a gun ... in the hands of a woman about to be raped, it is a savior ... in the hands of leftists (like Nader, Carter, etc.) it is the extinction of life. You want good things like nuclear energy? Then you have to deplatform or lock-up the evileft. The definition of leftism is the violently insane lust for power. Nuclear energy can be a godsend, the reason people think it isn't, is because our 90% of the world's leaders (aka enslavers) are leftists.

Very accurate portrayal of one of the greatest men in U.S. history

I was a nuke aboard a fast attack submarine in the mid-seventies and this movie brought back a lot of memories; good and bad. The Navy's nuclear training program was (and I presume still is) incredibly difficult weeded out a lot of very intelligent men who weren't able to live up to Rickover's standards. As a result, the U. S. Navy nuclear fleet is second to none. As the movie shows, incompetence, finger pointing, whining, etc. Were not tolerated. If you couldn't perform your duties as a nuke then you didn't last long. Our current "leaders" should be required to watch this movie over and over until they understand the message it contains. Barring that, this movie should be required viewing in our schools.

More like this

A Good Marriage

5.3

A Good Marriage

The Family

7.5

Nixon

7.0

The Crucible

6.8

Monster

6.5

Zero Day

7.0

Naked Singularity

4.9

Naked Singularity

Lisey's Story

5.9

Death Race

6.4

The Power of the Dog

6.8

The Power of the Dog

Room

8.1

The Homesman

6.6

Storyline

Did you know

Goofs
Several Navy Officers are shown in a Navy Captain uniform, but are of other various and lower ranks.

Connections
Features See It Now (1951)

Top picks

Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations

Details

Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Admiral Rickover: The Father of Nuclear Power
Production company
- Manifold Productions Inc.
See more company credits at IMDbPro

Tech specs

Runtime
1 hour 56 minutes
Color
- Color

Related news

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)

Top Gap

What is the English language plot outline for Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)?

See more gaps
Learn more about contributing

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.

Get the IMDb app

Sign in for more accessSign in for more access

Follow IMDb on social

Get the IMDb app

For Android and iOS

Get the IMDb app

Help
Site Index
IMDbPro
Box Office Mojo
License IMDb Data

Press Room
Advertising
Jobs
Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Your Ads Privacy Choices

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.