Einstein and the Bomb

2024

Action / Documentary / History

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 4384 4.4K

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Plot summary

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

Director

Anthony Philipson Photo
Anthony Philipson

Top cast

Andrew Havill Photo
Andrew Havill as unknown episodes
Aidan McArdle Photo
Aidan McArdle as Albert Einstein unknown episodes
Helena Westerman Photo
Helena Westerman as unknown episodes
Simon Haines Photo
Simon Haines as unknown episodes
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 11
1.42 GB
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English 5.1
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1 hr 16 min
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3.44 GB
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23.976 fps
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jd-97226 6 / 10

I'm a fan of the guy, so had to watch...

There are definitely much better documentaries out there on either Einstein or the bomb, but combining both is really not practical. Einstein's miracle year was in 1905, way before the A-bomb. He wrote his four papers. The first one gave him the Noble Prize and opened the door to Quantum Mechanics (QM). The forth gave us E=MC^2; at the time he had no idea where this would lead to. The problem with the documentary is that there is no Einstein and the Bomb; there's plenty of Einstein and QM (Photoelectric Effect), Einstein and LASER, Einstein and Gravity, Einstein and Differential Geometry. As for the bombs' development and use, there's Oppenheimer and the Bomb or Politicians, Their Decisions and the Bomb. Other than that, it's a good watch if you're a fan of the guy.
Reviewed by CrankyGoose 7 / 10

That's actually not bad.. but not that good

This movie is quite interesting and in fact, I learned a lot of new things for me. I found out that Einstein actually played on fiddle, that he has never liked interviews, that such a popular and influential person was hiding in the village in Big Britain, in some small house and etc. The film is really informative and you can learn a lot about his biography and the years when he was hiding from the scary and insane murder Nazi dictator Adolf H#tler. The only minuses of this movie is that it is short and actors are really not very well played. In a person who played Einstein it was not visible to the naked eye that he was wearing a wig and make-up. That's all what I didn't like. Everything else was very informative and interesting. I recommend this movie to watch.
Reviewed by mdw0526 7 / 10

Good docuseries complement to "Oppenheimer"...

Have you seen "Oppenheimer" yet? It helps to have seen it before this docuseries. It's a commitment of time (3 hours), but worth it, with amazing performances all around and a whole bunch of new knowledge learned.This new docudrama on Netflix is a good complement to the movie, and in a trim 1h15m, dives into more detail about Einstein and his place in the firmament of history with regard to the invention of the atomic bomb. Of course, it's not going to paint the entire picture in a short time, but does add some good color about Einstein's conflicted conscience on what he helped unleash, however small his role may have been.
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