Oppenheimer: The Real Story

This documentary is a much needed and appreciated balance to the recent film. It fulfills the task of filling in other aspects and experiences of Oppenheimer's complex and profound life. The film was very well produced and enacted and brings many important revelations to bear; however, it is limited in some respects just by the very nature of the film medium. The documentary OPPENHEIMER; THE REAL STORY is able to go beyond those limits and adds many important specifics and perspectives, not only on Oppenheimer's life, i.e. His personal story, but sheds light on the social and historical circumstances of the birth, development and future risks of the nuclear age. We are also given more details regarding the actual achievements and amazing accomplishments of the project at Los Alamos. This documentary is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I rarely give a 1-star rating, but it takes real skill to turn the exciting life of a world renowned genius into something more boring than watching a court hearing on CPSAN. How is this a 2023 production? Bad camera work, irrelevant stock footage shots, meandering dialogues, snail slow storyline, no animations, and a sleepy stock elevator soundtrack. Even a documentary needs a storyline/script beyond a chronological list of events, variation in content beyond interviews and landscape shots, a modern camera with quality lighting, and some kind of animations. If you want to see how this could be done with much less budget, check out "Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie" by Veritasium.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is an interesting subject and so this documentary is interesting. But the Talking Heads spout a lot of conjecture. Actual facts were in short supply. I think they interview only one person that actually met Oppenheimer and they had no knowledge or contact from during or before Los Alamos. Curious I don't recall them mentioning when he was married and had kids until towards the end that he started visiting the Virgin Islands with his wife.

This easily could have been edited to under 30 minutes (from 98) without losing any real content.

If you really are interested in the high points (they don't go very in depth) of Oppenheimer's life and do not know any more than the fiction movie than it might be worth a watch. Otherwise there are much better biographies of his found on YouTube.

Seriously, as I titled my review, watching paint dry would be more interesting. The individuals who narrate this documentary speak so slow or they continually pause as if they constantly lose their train of thought. This documentary was a snooze fest and it should be marketed as a sure cure for people with insomnia. It was reminiscent of those boring films we were forced to watch in science class. The material on Oppenheimer is super interesting but this documentary hired the most uninteresting British folks who spoke as if their voices were putting their faces to sleep. Their monotone descriptions of Oppenheimer's early days were as far as I could get. I had to turn this boring documentary off only 15 minutes in.

No thanks!!

The bad reviews came from people who refuse to admit to or confront the truth, it exposes the Republican Party for what it is. Oppenheimer' demise came during the Eisenhower administration which also, at the behest of Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, overturned the democratic government of Iran, so that the British could keep their oil rights.

With these people reviewing movies it makes it extremely hard to take anything that I see on your app believable. It seems as though he's reviewers were encouraged to downplay this documentary to give the new movie " Oppenheimer" coming out more plausibility.