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Los Alamos: The Beginning

1982 · 49 min

A sober, talk-driven history lesson built from archival footage and firsthand recollections, rewarding patient viewers with quiet moral weight.

Directed by
Mario Balibrera, David Moore
Genres
Documentary, History
Starring
Eliot Kohen, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer
Overview
A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of Los Alamos, recalling their experiences of the community and the creation of the atomic bomb from the inception of the program in 1943.

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Directed by
Mario Balibrera, David Moore
Genres
Documentary, History
Starring
Eliot Kohen, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer
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    Themes
    • war
    • science
    • memory
    • morality
    • power
    Places
    • small town
    • workplace
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
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    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
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    Humour1
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    Tension3
    Darkness5
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    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    documentary, history
    Directed by
    Mario Balibrera, David Moore, Alison Kerr, Nancy Zachariasen
    Written by
    David Moore
    Starring
    Eliot Kohen, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Emilio Segrè, Harold Agnew
    Runtime
    49 min
    Languages
    English

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