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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929017904
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 420 minutes
Sales Rank: 6745
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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Sam Waterston stars in this BAFTA award-winning seven-part serial drama that delves into the enigma that was J. Robert Oppenheimer the American physicist often referred to as 'the father of the atomic bomb.' This gripping dramatization explores at length the extraordinary complexity of the scientist's thinking and the dilemma he faced. Within years he was declared a security risk by the American government only to be awarded with the highest honor in his field by a subsequent presidency. Were the Americans trying to placate an uneasy conscience?System Requirements:Running Time: 420 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC Rating: NR UPC: 883929017904 Manufacturer No: 1000038455
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Rating: - Thank you!
I am a chemistry teacher and have been wanting to show this series to my classes FOR YEARS. Finally, I can. It gives wonderful insight into the minds, egos, politics and brilliance of the men and women at Los Alamos. Sam Waterston does a hell of a job as the mercurial Oppenheimer. The story also gives insight into the strained relationship between the military and the civilian scientists imprisoned on a mesa in New Mexico. Great history, great physics, great stuff!!
Rating: - The Wait Was Definitely Worth It
The first time I saw this miniseries was so long ago that I recorded it on beta tape. When the beta machine finally was on its last leg I transfered it to VHS at an appreciable loss of video quality. For years I looked for a release on DVD and finally got on the wait list here at Amazon a couple of years back. Well, the wait was finally over and it was well worth waiting for. I have the book Oppenheimner and the miniseries follows it nicely. The acting is excellent, the settings are very well done (typical BBC) and the quality of the DVD production is great. It is definitely a great addition to my video library. I highly recommend this video to anyone who is interested in Oppenheimer, the period of history surrounding the development of the atomic bomb and the politics associated throughout this period.
Rating: - Marvelous series about a maligned genius
A great, detailed and fascinating retelling of how a maligned genius was able to lead and focus some of the greatest applied physicists into building two completely different atomic bombs. Oppenheimer is sometimes dismissed by some circles as not really the father of the atomic bomb. Surely, there were others in the group of scientists who were higher order of geniuses (David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs [Soviet spy] and Edward Teller [father of the fusion bomb]). However, how many of them could corral these brains and focus them like a laser beam into creating workable bombs (material and ignition). You really feel for the period as well including all the commie bashing (rightfully in some cases but pure red menace scare in many others).
Rating: - Oppenheimer WBGH/BBC
2004 marked the Centennial of Oppenheimer's birth. The release of this title on DVD is long overdue, and will provide a complement to the recent publication of the first 3 full length biographies of Oppenheimer, by a spectrum of recognized authorities in the field
J Robert Oppenheimer: A Life by the physicist Abraham Pais, who has previously done books on Einstein and Bohr,
J Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century by the historian of science David Cassidy who has done a biography of Werner Heisenberg,
American Prometheus by 2 prominent historians of the Bomb and the Cold War, Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird.
The science writer Jeremy Bernstein has a new book, Oppenheimer, Portrait of an Enigma, which was a previously unpublished, extended magazine profile.
The Cold War historian Gregg Herken has also contributed a volume on the Brotherhood of the Bomb( Oppenheimer, Lawrence and Teller).
Lastly, the papers presented at the Oppenheimer Centennial Conference held at UC Berkeley in May of 2004 have been collected and published, as have several more recent analyses of the Oppenheimer security hearing(by Richard Polenberg and Priscilla MacMillan,respectively.
A play, In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer( also the title of the actual published transcripts of the security hearing) based upon the hearings, originally performed in the 1960's, is being revived off Broadway this year.
With all of the aforementioned renewed interest ... Read More
Rating: - Finally!
I was lucky enough to see "Oppenheimer" when it was first broadcast on PBS, and have been checking Amazon literally for years, patiently waiting for it to be released on DVD (I think I pre-ordered it five years ago). Now the wait is over, for one of the great film dramas is about to hit the shelves... and I'm sure it will fly off the shelves as it should. The question is: Why has it taken so long for this amazing production to be released on video? Where has it been all these years? Well produced and exacting in detail, accuracy and drama, this story of the "father of the atomic bomb" is grips the viewer from the first few minutes to the last episode. Of course, we've all seen the famous footage of the Trinity test (over and over), but this film tells Robert Oppenheimer's story so well, it looks like the test footage was made for this film, rather than the other way around. The final episodes of the film well illustrates the heartbreaking and tragic end of the great physicist's career. Public television should have rebroadcast this wonderful program long ago. Let's be thankful it is finally available to the general public on DVD. Kudos to the producers and to Sam Waterston - for turning in the finest performance of his career.
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