Projects - Sloan Science & Film

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative–the Manhattan Project. But after World War II, this brilliant and intense scientist fell from the innermost circles of American science. This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.

[text adapted from pbs.org]

CREDITS

Written, Directed, and Produced by David Grubin
Edited by Deborah Peretz and Kate Taverna
Produced by WGBH for The American Experience

SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

Physics

AWARDS

2009, Television: WGBH Production Award

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Short Films
Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.