06744cgm a2200805 i 4500 212477792 TxAuBib 20150413120000.0 d 080619s2008||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 9781419867569 1419867563 883929017904 1000038455 BBC Video (set) 2000003271 BBC Video (disc 1) 2000003272 BBC Video (disc 2) 2000003273 BBC Video (disc 3) TxAuBib rda Oppenheimer [(DVD)] / 2 Entertain ; BBC ; by Peter Prince ; directed by Barry Davis ; executive producer, Peter Goodchild ; a BBC TV production in association with WGBH Boston. Oppenheimer : the father of the atomic bomb. Burbank, CA : Distributed in the US by Warner Home Video, 2008. 3 videodiscs (ca. 420 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. tdi rdacontent v rdamedia vd rdacarrier Technical advisors, John Charap, R.G. Hewlett, J. Rotblat, W.G. Marley, Ernest Titterton ; cameramen, Rodney Taylor, Peter Hall ; editors, Ron Bowman, Tariq Anwar ; costume designer, Caroline Maxwell ; music composed by Carl Davis ; research, Katharine Everett, Angela Clarke, Caroline Davidson ; production designers, Ray London, Austen Spriggs, Carol Golder. Narrator, John Carson; Episode 1: Sam Waterston (Robert Oppenheimer), Anthony Forrest (Rossi Lomanitz), John Morton (Robert Wilson), Peter Whitman (Robert Serber), Daniel Foley (Joseph Weinberg), Kate Harper (Jean Tatlock), Peter Marinker (Haakon Chevalier), Garrick Hagon (Frank Oppenheimer), Liza Ross (Jacky Oppenheimer), Bob Sherman (Ernest Lawrence), Christopher Malcolm (Steve Nelson), Jana Sheldon (Kitty Harrison-Oppenheimer), James Smith (Dr. Harrison), Erica Stevens (Charlotte Serber); Episode 2: Manning Redwood (General Leslie Groves), Ed Devereaux (General Wilhelm Styer), Edward Hardwicke (Enrico Fermi), Matthew Guinness (Hans Bethe), David Oliver (Emil Konopinski), David Suchet (Edward Teller), Christopher Muncke (Colonel Kenneth Nichols), Alex Davion (Arthur Compton), Gabor Vernon (Leo Szilard), Colette Hiller (Barbara Chevalier); Episode 3: David Baxt (Colonel John Lansdale), Ron Berglas (John Manley), Barry Dennen (Isidor Rabi), Shane Rimmer (Ed Condon), Rosemary Faith (Mitzi Teller), Pat Starr (Alice Smith), Sarah Brackett (Priscilla Duffield), Billy J. Mitchell (Captain "Deke" Parsons), Colin Bennett (Seth Neddermeyer), Marc Smith (Lt. Colonel Boris Pash); Episode 4: Blain Fairman (Robert Bacher), Dave Hill (James Tuck), Milton Johns (George Kistiakowsky), Albert Welling (Klaus Fuchs), Douglas Lambert (Kenneth Bainbridge); Episode 5: Alexander Knox (Henry Stimson), Ed Bishop (General Tom Farrell), Michael John Paliotti (Sam Allison); Episode 6: Peter Banks (Joseph Volpe), Phil Brown (Lewis Strauss), Bob Sessions (Thomas Finletter), Robert Robinson (Senator Knowland), Stephen Turner (David Griggs), Ray Charleson (William Borden), Raymond Thompson (Francis Colter), James Waterston (Peter Oppenheimer), Elizabeth Giles (Toni Oppenheimer), Audrey Hamilton (Carol Chevalier); Episode 7: George Gabriel (Harold Green), Stuart Milligan (Herbert Marks), James Maxwell (Lloyd Garrison), Philip O'Brien (Roger Robb), Seymour Green (Gordon Gray), Robert Arden (John McCloy). Originally broadcast as a seven part mini-series by BBC television on October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 26, and December 3, 1980. This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous figure. First, news of successful fission experiments in Europe spurs him to pursue a role in the government's efforts to develop an atomic bomb. Second, new wife Kitty is pushing him to advance his career during the coming war years. Oppenheimer wanted to be both a radical and a member of the establishment; was paradoxically both a tortured socialist and a hardened realist. He appreciated the opportunity the military gave him to develop a project he would never have realized in his university career, despite believing that scientists aren't the only ones to pass moral judgments on the results of their experiments. Moreover, although some of the more unsavory aspects of Oppenheimer's career seem to have been deliberately elided, on balance, the portrayal of Oppenheimer is dramatically inclusive, and avoids the pitfalls of portraying him as a tragically heroic figure. After being shown in Britain in 1980, Oppenheimer aired in the US on PBS's American Playhouse in 1982. MPAA Rating: Not rated. DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; full screen presentation, aspect ratio 4:3. 20150413. In English with optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing. Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Drama. Manhattan Project (U.S.) Atomic bomb United States History Drama. Physicists United States Drama. Science Experiments Drama. Historical television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Los Alamos (N.M.) Biographical television programs. Television mini-series. Television mini-series. Great Britain. Prince, Peter, 1942- Davis, Barry, 1936-1990. Goodchild, Peter. Carson, Johnny, 1925-2005. Waterston, Sam. Muncke, Christopher. Suchet, David. Hardwicke, Edward. Shelden, Jana. Redwood, Manning. Guinness, Matthew. Whitman, Peter. Dennen, Barry. Sherman, Bob, 1940-2004. Hagon, Garrick. Morton, John. Fairman, Blain. Harper, Kate. Ross, Liza. Marinker, Peter. 2 Entertain (Firm). British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service. WGBH (Television station : Boston), Mass.) BBC Video (Firm). Warner Home Video (Firm).