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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • October 29, 1980
    • BBC

    1938: Robert Oppenheimer's life is changed by the discovery of nuclear fission and the appearance of Kitty Harrison.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • November 3, 1980
    • BBC

    1942: America is at war. Oppenheimer is engaged in the race to produce an atomic bomb.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • November 12, 1980
    • BBC

    1943: Oppenheimer is director of Los Alamos, but his past Communist associations alert the FBI.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • November 19, 1980
    • BBC

    Summer 1944: Oppenheimer has problems with his staff and the development of the bomb.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • November 27, 1980
    • BBC

    May 1945: The European war is over but the war with Japan continues. Oppenheimer discusses the use of the almost completed atomic bomb with the secretary of War. His colleagues have misgivings.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • December 3, 1980
    • BBC

    1949 - The Oppenheimer family becomes a target of the HUAC hearings.

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    • December 10, 1980
    • BBC

    December 1953 - Oppenheimer falls foul of the Communist witch hunt.