In a race against time and the enemy, J. Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why? J.

For “Oppenheimer,” the director needed to capture the interior action within one of history’s most consequential minds, so he fixed those large-format cameras on the face of actor Cillian ...

Christopher Nolan knew that the scene of the Trinity test in his epic film Oppenheimer ... as a giant 3D model. But upon realizing that recreating a full-scale replica with interiors and exteriors ...

Robert Oppenheimer ... in the U.K. for interior shots, and in Colorado Springs, where the Los Alamos project was constructed along with the vast tower that housed the atom bomb (pictured).