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Oppenheimer: The Real Story

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The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
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Robin Bextor
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2023
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[suspenseful music] [logo cracking] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
[suspenseful music] [logo cracking]
[dramatic suspenseful music] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
[dramatic suspenseful music]
It's a sad and depressing stretch - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
It's a sad and depressing stretch
He was an ivory tower academic, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
He was an ivory tower academic,
Now he had built an isolated secret city in the sky - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:17
Now he had built an isolated secret city in the sky
He had done in months - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He had done in months
Just days before, he had taken delivery of the plutonium, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
Just days before, he had taken delivery of the plutonium,
He'd signed a receipt for hundreds of millions of dollars. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
He'd signed a receipt for hundreds of millions of dolla...
It was the fruits of the labors - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
It was the fruits of the labors
In this rundown old ranch house, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
In this rundown old ranch house,
As the lightning crackled in the sky and the wind howled, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
As the lightning crackled in the sky and the wind howled,
[thunder rumbles] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
[thunder rumbles]
From somewhere, a few words formed in his mind. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
From somewhere, a few words formed in his mind.
- "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
- "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."...
- Robert Oppenheimer grew up - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- Robert Oppenheimer grew up
[cheerful piano music] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
[cheerful piano music]
His parents had made by that time quite a bit of money. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
His parents had made by that time quite a bit of money.
He had a limousine with a chauffeur. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He had a limousine with a chauffeur.
They had a house in Long Island. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
They had a house in Long Island.
They had a small sailing yacht, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
They had a small sailing yacht,
- When Oppenheimer was growing up, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- When Oppenheimer was growing up,
He was brought up in isolation until he went to school, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
He was brought up in isolation until he went to school,
And anything Oppenheimer showed an interest in, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
And anything Oppenheimer showed an interest in,
If he showed any interest in painting, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
If he showed any interest in painting,
One thing he showed a very keen interest in was geology - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
One thing he showed a very keen interest in was geology
He actually did, at the age of 13, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
He actually did, at the age of 13,
So what was life like? - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
So what was life like?
It was very privileged but very intense, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
It was very privileged but very intense,
His mother had a withered hand - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
His mother had a withered hand
And the general emotional atmosphere - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
And the general emotional atmosphere
[cheerful piano music] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
[cheerful piano music]
[cheerful piano music continues] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
[cheerful piano music continues]
He was, you know, surrounded by culture and art. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
He was, you know, surrounded by culture and art.
His mother was an artist and a collector of modern art, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
His mother was an artist and a collector of modern art,
He once said that his life as a child - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
He once said that his life as a child
You know, he was a very sheltered privileged young man. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
You know, he was a very sheltered privileged young man.
- His fellow schoolmates, one of them remembers him saying, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:20
- His fellow schoolmates, one of them remembers him saying,
- The Ethical Culture School was Jewish but not Jewish. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
- The Ethical Culture School was Jewish but not Jewish.
It came out of Judaism, founded by a Reform rabbi, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
It came out of Judaism, founded by a Reform rabbi,
- Although he was finally with other children his age, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- Although he was finally with other children his age,
And until Francis Fergusson arrived, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:28
And until Francis Fergusson arrived,
And I think that had a lot to do - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
And I think that had a lot to do
It's very difficult to know why exactly, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
It's very difficult to know why exactly,
He insisted he was neither German nor Jewish. [laughs] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
He insisted he was neither German nor Jewish. [laughs]
- And I think this was very much bound up - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
- And I think this was very much bound up
And that very much influenced Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
And that very much influenced Oppenheimer
He had no traumatic experiences. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He had no traumatic experiences.
He went horseback riding in Central Park, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He went horseback riding in Central Park,
- Later interest in New Mexico, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:23
- Later interest in New Mexico,
- I think he had a big ego, [laughs] yes. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
- I think he had a big ego, [laughs] yes.
He had a strong ego, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
He had a strong ego,
- He was a little bit precious in a way - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- He was a little bit precious in a way
There was an incident at a summer camp - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
There was an incident at a summer camp
But I do think that he was aware - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:12
But I do think that he was aware
He wanted to do something special. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
He wanted to do something special.
- So he had a year of enforced leisure - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:22
- So he had a year of enforced leisure
And partly, I think, to get rid of him, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
And partly, I think, to get rid of him,
[gentle upbeat music] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:16
[gentle upbeat music]
And Fergusson was from a well-known family in New Mexico. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
And Fergusson was from a well-known family in New Mexico.
[water rushing] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:24
[water rushing]
- New Mexico couldn't have been more of a contrast - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:19
- New Mexico couldn't have been more of a contrast
That was the first time that he had - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:14
That was the first time that he had
- Oh, New Mexico had an enormous impact on him. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
- Oh, New Mexico had an enormous impact on him.
He fell in love with the desert, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He fell in love with the desert,
- [Charles] That was this sort of adventurous spirit - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
- [Charles] That was this sort of adventurous spirit
- [Kai] Just the starkness of the geography, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
- [Kai] Just the starkness of the geography,
Started renting in 1929 - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:11
Started renting in 1929
In the middle of nowhere, [laughs] - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
In the middle of nowhere, [laughs]
- [Frank] We slept on the floor, a board floor, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
- [Frank] We slept on the floor, a board floor,
But [laughs] that didn't bother Robert much, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
But [laughs] that didn't bother Robert much,
He looked terribly frail, but he was pretty tough. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He looked terribly frail, but he was pretty tough.
- A decade later, he was always telling people, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:34
- A decade later, he was always telling people,
- Again, he succeeded at everything he did at Harvard - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
- Again, he succeeded at everything he did at Harvard
He had a few friends, his roommates. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He had a few friends, his roommates.
You know, he was a very intense personality - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:10
You know, he was a very intense personality
I don't think hemade any long-term friendships there, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
I don't think hemade any long-term friendships there,
- And the most famous physicist at that time - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
- And the most famous physicist at that time
But there was a problem there because although as a student, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:18
But there was a problem there because although as a student,
Rutherford's colleague was a man called J.J. Thompson, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:09
Rutherford's colleague was a man called J.J. Thompson,
And as a sort of second best, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:19
And as a sort of second best,
And he spent a year at Cambridge in England - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
And he spent a year at Cambridge in England
He was a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:07
He was a square peg trying to fit into a round hole.
He wasn't a laboratory physicist, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
He wasn't a laboratory physicist,
It was expected of all the students - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:08
It was expected of all the students
There's a story that Oppenheimer gave his presentation, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:28
There's a story that Oppenheimer gave his presentation,
There are other reports of people finding him curled up - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:15
There are other reports of people finding him curled up
Patrick Blackett was, one supposes, - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:13
Patrick Blackett was, one supposes,
Patrick Blackett was notoriously well connected. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:05
Patrick Blackett was notoriously well connected.
He was superbly good in the laboratory. - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:06
He was superbly good in the laboratory.
And Oppenheimer once went on holiday to Corsica - Oppenheimer: The Real Story 00:26
And Oppenheimer once went on holiday to Corsica
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The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.

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Director: Robin Bextor
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Genre: documentary
Year: 2023
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