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I Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb

1995 · 56 min

A solemn, first-person reckoning with history: quiet testimony from elderly scientists whose measured voices carry the weight of what they built.

Directed by
Arthur MacCaig
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Arthur MacCaig, Rachel Fermi, Edward Teller
Tagline
Illuminating stories told by the scientists who actually worked on the Manhattan Project alongside Robert Oppenheimer
Overview
A rare view from within, as several of the Manhattan Project scientists, including Hans Berthe, Robert Serber, Edward Teller, Robert Wilson, and more, speak of their experiences on the path to a terrible shared destiny. As their lives and work at Los Alamos are revealed, they relate stories of contradictions and jealousies, and how each came to terms with the atomic era's most immediate consequence: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Directed by
Arthur MacCaig
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Arthur MacCaig, Rachel Fermi, Edward Teller
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  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
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measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
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  • workplace
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adult
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  • documentary
  • true story
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  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Realism10
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Darkness7
Complexity6
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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Arthur MacCaig
Written by
Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Starring
Arthur MacCaig, Rachel Fermi, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe, Robert Wilson, Robert Serber, Robert Christy, Harold Agnew
Cinematography
Arlette Girardot
Runtime
56 min
Country
France
Languages
English

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