Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning film follows the spectacular rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s career, beginning in the fall of 1929, when he arrived at UC Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the age of twenty-five. The years he spent at UC Berkeley were a defining moment for the young professor and future father of the atomic bomb: here he met close friends and collaborators, established his reputation as a charismatic public intellectual, and began his political awakening. Student reviewers were “fascinated by the questions the film raises about the value of technology” and “the role of academia in war.” Oppenheimer will alter the way you see and think about UC Berkeley and the campus’s place in history and the world.