This event looks at two Hollywood films made 76 years apart featuring Robert J. Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Each movie documents the creation of the atomic bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima in very different industrial contexts. The 1947 MGM film "The Beginning or the End" faced great interference from the White House and the Pentagon in portraying historical figures and events factually, one of several reasons why the Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer was a commercial cinematography, and the direction of Christopher Nolan who had complete control over the movie from Universal Pictures. 

To register: Please email Engagement@mesaartscenter.com to register today! 

Date: Mondays, Sept. 30 & Oct. 7

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Dobson Lecture Hall | Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum | 1 E Main Street Mesa, AZ 85201 

Parking: Free parking on Main Street, 1st Avenue, and Center Street, and in our parking lot on the northeast corner of Center Street and 1st Avenue.