Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.
- usa president
- war crimes
- atomic bomb
- world war ii
- interview
- atomic bomb test
- biography
- based on true story
- hiroshima
- japan
- little boy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Ellen Bradbury Reid
Self - Daughter of Los Alamos Scientist
Christopher Nolan
Self - Writer / Director, "Oppenheimer"
Jon Else
Self - Filmmaker, "The Day After Trinity"
- Kai Bird — Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus"
- Bill Nye — Self - Science Educator
- Richard Rhodes — Self - Author, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
- Mareena Robinson Snowden — Self - Nuclear Security Expert
- Alan B. Carr — Self - Senior Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Gregg Herken — Self - Author, "Brotherhood of the Bomb"
- Jennet Conant — Self - Author, "109 East Palace"
- David Eisenbach — Self - History Professor, Columbia University
- Alex Wellerstein — Self - Nuclear Historian
- Martin J. Sherwin — Self - Co-Author, "American Prometheus" (voice)
- Michio Kaku — Self - Theoretical Physicist
- Directed
- Christopher Cassel
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 234 ratings
- Studio
- NBC News Studios
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