Leslie Groves
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
as Self - Director, Manhattan Project (voice) (archive sound)Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of...
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A Compassionate Spy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los...
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The Day After Trinity
as Self (archive footage)This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about...
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Death in Focus
as Lieutenant General/ EngineerDeath in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of...
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The Decision to Drop the Bomb
as SelfJ. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic...
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Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
as Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the...
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