Day One

HD 2.8 141 min.

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.

Genre: TV Movie, Drama, History

Release: May 12, 1989

Director: Joseph Sargent

Cast: Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Richard Dysart, Hal Holbrook, Barnard Hughes, John McMartin, David Ogden Stiers, Anne Twomey, Ron Frazier, Olek Krupa, John Pielmeier, Ken Pogue, Gary Reineke, John Seitz, Tony Shalhoub, Ester Spitz, Ron White, Stephan Balint, Peter Boretski, Patrick Breen, Vlasta Vrána, George Popovich, Lorne Brass, Michael Sinelnikoff, Graham Haley, Kliment Denchev, Diana Fajrajsl, Timothy Webber, Lia Sargent, David Gow, Harry Standjofski, Michael Farrell, Isabelle Mejias, Jonathan Wise, George R. Robertson, Dee McCafferty, Tom Butler, Robert Morelli, Jon Baggaley, David Bolt, David Ferry, Heinar Pillar, François Klanfer, Joel Miller, Michael J. Reynolds, Ed McGibbon, Nicholas Kilbertus, Joe Cazalet, Scott Thomson, Bob Clout, Roland Hewgill, Stan Gibbons, Terrence Labrosse, Alex Guard, Philip Spensley, Frederick Neumann, Norris Domingue, Lawrence Dane, Bernie McInerney, Alan Scarfe