Day One (1989)

History
Drama
TV Movie

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.

Cast

Gen. Leslie Groves
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Colonel Pash
Edward Teller
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Groves's Commanding Officer
Ralph A. Bard
Enrico Fermi
Leo Szilard
Trude Weiss
Colonel Nichols
Eugen Wigner
Albert Einstein
Richard Feynman
Hans Bethe
Samuel Goudsmit
Klaus Fuchs
Lord Rutherford
Haakon Chevalier
James F. Byrnes
Michael Polanyi
Ilse Polanyi
Colonel Lansdale
Robert Wilson
Mrs. Wisnovsky
Jack Wisnovsky
Mrs. Trowbridge
Robert Serber
President Harry S. Truman
William 'Deke' Parsons
Captain DeSilva
T. O. Jones
James Tuck
Harry Gold
Army Major
Fleischmann
Haagen Kistiakowski
George Kistiakowski
Kenneth Bainbridge
Gen. George Marshall
William D. Leahy
Air Force Guard
Alfred MacCormack
Army General
John J. McCloy
London Pedestrian
British Jr. Officer
Henry Stimson
British Sr. Officer
Alexander Sachs
General Pa Watson
Los Alamo Scientist (uncredited)
Scientist (uncredited)
Leo Szilard's Prime Scientist (uncredited)
Dr. Arthur Compton
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kitty Oppenheimer

Crew

Costume Design
Associate Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Production Design
Art Direction
Makeup Department Head
Key Makeup Artist
Assistant Hairstylist
Hairstylist
Assistant Hairstylist
Executive In Charge Of Production
Unit Production Manager
Production Manager
Third Assistant Director
Third Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
First Assistant Director