TV SeriesEnded
Oppenheimer
1980 6.7(13) 1 season en
Cast
Sam Waterston
Robert Oppenheimer
John Carson
Narrator
Episodes
1 season available
E1Episode 1
Oct 29, 1980 50m1938: Robert Oppenheimer meets and decides to marry the hard-drinking, much-divorced Kitty, although his friends and relatives dislike her.
E2Episode 2
Nov 3, 1980 50m1942: America is at war. Now in charge of the top-secret Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer's left-wing politics mean that he's constantly under surveillance by the FBI and others.
E3Episode 3
Nov 12, 1980 50m1943: Oppenheimer is appointed director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI. Meanwhile, his extramarital relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock comes to a tragic end.
E4Episode 4
Nov 19, 1980 50mSummer 1944: With the death of President Roosevelt, the future of the Manhattan Project seems doubtful. Oppenheimer finds himself more and more at loggerheads with Teller.
E5Episode 5
Nov 27, 1980 50mMay 1945: The European war is over but the conflict with Japan rages on. Oppenheimer discusses the almost completed atomic bomb with the Secretary of War. However, his colleagues have misgivings.
E6Episode 6
Dec 3, 1980 50m1949: A few years after the war, Oppenheimer finds himself regarded as a security risk, and must face the HUAC committee.
E7Episode 7
Dec 10, 1980 50mDecember 1953: Oppenheimer's examination by the committee proves disastrous and his career with the AEC is finished, whilst that of his rival Teller flourishes.
