Oppenheimer
Sloan Foundation Film
Release Date
2023
Film Synopsis
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Academy Award® winner for Best Picture Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. The film stars Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Academy Award winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Academy Award winner Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.
Photo credit: Universal Pictures
Possible Topics
- Lessons we can learn from the nuclear age
- Scientists in history
- Nuclear physics + nuclear war
- The threat of nuclear war