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African Americans Suffrage Atomic bomb United States History Civil rights movements United States Civil rights workers United States Documentary films Manhattan Project (U.S.) Murder Mississippi Rock music United States History Television United States History United States History 20th centurySummary: This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OPPSummary: Last in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events that changed the way Americans saw themselves. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 16, 1939, urged the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006