Originally published at: 2014's "Manhattan" offered a longer retelling of Oppenheimer's story | Boing Boing
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I was meaning to post about this series. I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned more since the movie came out. Worth watching.
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Oppenheimer barely figures into the show, but it was an interesting fictionalized take on the Manhattan Project.
Currently available on Tubi
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We hates imax!
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Also, check out:
If you have criterion channel.
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Another take is the BBC mini-series from 1980, starring Sam Waterston.
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It’s currently streaming for free. Not sure how long that will last. I found its candid interviews with those who were there to be a refreshing and realistic counterpoint to the glitzy Hollywood take.
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This docu is narrated by Paul Frees, alsomthe voice of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. Cross boingboing threads today.
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It was really good. I’m sad it was cancelled prematurely.
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and if you dont;
The Day After Trinity : Else, Jon, 1944- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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It totally was, and same. Similar cut-short-at-season-two fate that so many of the great series of this era have befallen, like Strange Angel - with its various parallels.
Watching Oppenheimer it was fun to realize that Christopher Denham (Klaus Fuchs in O.) appears in both, and as essentially the same character, (though as a fictionalized variation in Manhattan).
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So no dramatic Senate confirmation hearings for a Secretary of Commerce nominee in 1959 who wasn’t even part of the Manhattan project? Oh well.
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… and Colossus 
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