Einstein and the Bomb

Name: Einstein and the Bomb
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: February 16, 2024
Duration: 76 min
Cast: Aidan McArdle, Albert Einstein, Andrew Havill, Helena Westerman, James Musgrave

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): February 16, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Aidan McArdle, Albert Einstein, Andrew Havill, Helena Westerman, James Musgrave, Jay Lewis Mitchell, Leo Ashizawa, Rachel Barry, Simon Haines, Simon Markey

Summary: It’s 1933 and Albert Einstein the most famous scientist in the world is on the run. In fear of his life, he has no choice but to abandon his German homeland, as Hitler seizes power and begins the systematic persecution of the Jewish population. Einstein must find somewhere to hide from the very real threat of Nazi assassins. But where doesIt’s 1933 and Albert Einstein the most famous scientist in the world is on the run. In fear of his life, he has no choice but to abandon his German homeland, as Hitler seizes power and begins the systematic persecution of the Jewish population. Einstein must find somewhere to hide from the very real threat of Nazi assassins. But where does a global celebrity disappear from view? The answer leads to a wooden hut in a field in Norfolk and the little known story of Einstein’s English hideaway. A time and place that will be a turning point in his life, between Europe and the US, between pacifism and aggression and a moment that will ultimately define his relationship with the most powerful of all inventions – the atom bomb.… Expand

Director: Anthony Philipson

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 76 min

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John Anderson

Feb 15, 2024

A moving and even poetic mixed-media meditation on Albert Einstein, his life after Hitler and his sense of “responsibility, not to say guilt” about his theories and how they played into the destruction that, lest one forget, ended World War II. Read full review

Chris Vognar

Feb 20, 2024

This is frankly the kind of thing Netflix could and should do more of. It looks inexpensive but sharp, it doesn’t reek of sensationalism, and it doesn‘t feel like a cobbled together romp through history. It has a point and a vision worthy of its subject. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 20, 2024

It’s at its best when capturing the flavor of the fraught times Einstein lived in, especially his later years, when he — not unlike J. Robert Oppenheimer — was encouraged to mull over his role and even the idea of his “guilt” in unleashing the atomic age. Read full review

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