The Day After Trinity

The Day After Trinity

88 mins | Documentary | Jan. 20, 1981

The Day After Trinity (a.k.a. The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb) is a 1980 documentary film directed and produced by Jon H. Else in association with KTEH public television in San Jose, California. The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. Featuring candid interviews with several Manhattan Project scientists, as well as newly declassified archival footage, The Day After Trinity was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1980, and received a Peabody Award in 1981.

The Day After Trinity

88 mins | Documentary | Jan. 20, 1981

The Day After Trinity
The Day After Trinity (a.k.a. The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb) is a 1980 documentary film directed and produced by Jon H. Else in association with KTEH public television in San Jose, California. The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. Featuring candid interviews with several Manhattan Project scientists, as well as newly declassified archival footage, The Day After Trinity was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1980, and received a Peabody Award in 1981.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers KTEH
Original title The Day After Trinity
Directors Jon Else
Writers Jon Else, David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples

Cast

Paul Frees

as Narrator (voice)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

as Self (archive footage)

Hans Bethe

as Self

Isidor Isaac Rabi

as Self (as I. I. Rabi)

Robert Serber

as Self

Leslie Groves

as Self (archive footage)

Freeman Dyson

as Self

Holm Bursom

as Self

Jon Else

as Interviewer

Susan Evans

as Self

Robert Krohn

as Self

Dave MacDonald

as Self

Joseph McCarthy

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Porton

as Self

Harry S. Truman

as Self (archive footage)

Francoise Ulam

as Self

Stanislaw Ulam

as Self (as Stan Ulam)

Jane Wilson

as Self