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Los Alamos: The Beginning

19820.0 / 1049 min

Documentary, History

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.

Cast

Eliot Kohen

Narrator (voice)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

Frank Oppenheimer

Self

Hans Bethe

Self

Edward Teller

Self

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Self

Emilio Segrè

Self

Harold Agnew

Self

Stanislaw Ulam

Self

Victor Weisskopf

Self

George Kistiakowsky

Self

Philip Morrison

Self

Priscilla Duffield

Self

Dorothy McKibbin

Self

Robert R. Wilson

Self

Edwin McMillan

Self

Robert Bacher

Self

Crew

Richard McCurdy

Sound

Robb Gordon

Cinematography

Larry Gibbons

Cinematography

Tom McCarthy

Cinematography

Alison Kerr

Director

Tom McCarthy

Editor

Fred Baker

Cinematography

Evelyn Sandoval

Production Assistant

David Moore

Writer

Ernie Shinagawa

Sound

Mario Balibrera

Director

Nancy Zachariasen

Director

Tom McCarthy

Director

David Moore

Director

Cecil Montoya

Sound

Bob Wellnitz

Sound

Judith Liersch

Director