J. Robert Oppenheimer is appointed to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.

Already a global phenomenon, Oppenheimer may be Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece. Awe, terror and the weight of history startle in sequences both sonically devastating and disarmingly restrained, in this portrait of man’s hubris when trying to find honor through innovating means of destruction.