Oppenheimer runs from Monday, October 2 through Wednesday, October 4. It screens Monday through Wednesday at 7pm with an additional screening on Wednesday at 3pm in Historic Thalian Hall’s Main Theatre.
During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing 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.