Day One

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Actors: David Ogden Stiers , Brian Dennehy , David Strathairn , Hal Holbrook , Hume Cronyn , Olek Krupa , Lawrence Dane , Richard Dysart , Barnard Hughes , John McMartin , Michael Tucker , Ron Frazier , Anne Twomey , Bernie McInerney , John Pielmeier

Director: Joseph Sargent

IMDB Rate: 7.5 out of 10 (182 votes)

Plot Summary: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.