Price: Free
Newham Community Cinema in partnership with Film London brings a special screening of Oppenheimer.
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.
Dir: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Cert: 15
Dur: 180min
Timings
5.30pm: Doors open + Intro
5.35pm: Newham Community Film Festival Listening Session
6:00pm: Feature film starts promptly
9:00pm: Q&A (Robin Grimes, Frank James, Jon Agar)
9:30pm: Q&A finishes and exit venue
About the Panel
Robin Grimes is the Steele Chair of Energy Materials at Imperial College. From 2017 to 2021 he was Chief Scientific Adviser (nuclear) to the Ministry of Defence and between 2013 and 2018 Chief Scientific Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. From 2000 to 2001 he was the Bernd T. Matthias Scholar of Los Alamos National Laboratory where he continues to be a visiting scientist. As a UK government scientist he chaired planning and technical experts groups under the JCPOA (the Iran deal). In his research, he predicts the behaviour of materials for energy applications.
Jon Agar is a historian of modern science and technology at the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), University College London. His the author of books such as Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Polity Press, 2012) and Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone (Icon, 2nd edition, 2012)
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