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Manhattan. Season one

Author

Sam Shaw

Call Number

  • DVD TV SERIES (CEN)

Languages

In English, with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Performers

John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman, Rachel Brosnahan, Daniel Stern, Katja Herbers, Harry Lloyd, Alexia Fast, Christoper Denham, Michael Chernus.

Publication Information

Santa Monica, California : Lions Gate Entertainment, [2015]

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (approximately 622 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Set against the backdrop of the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb, MANHATTAN follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast as individual episodes on WGN America in 2014.

Special features: Ground Zero: bringing the bomb to screen ; P.O. Box 1663: creating a city that didn't exist ; "Now I am become death": J. Robert Oppenheimer ; "Recreating an era": "Manhattan" costume design ; commentaries with cast and crew.

Contents

  • You always hurt the one you love
  • The prisoner's dilemma
  • The hive
  • Last reasoning of kings
  • A new approach to nuclear cosmology
  • Acceptable limits
  • The new world
  • The second coming
  • Spooky action at a distance
  • The understudy
  • Tangier
  • The gun model
  • Perestroika.

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