Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb (2013)
• February 2nd, 2013 • 0h 52min
Documentary, History
Overview
To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Łódź Ghetto
Released on: 1989-03-22
Documentary, History
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...
Genius
Released on: 2016-06-10
History, Drama
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...
Gandhi
Released on: 1982-12-01
Drama, History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Night and Fog
Released on: 1959-04-27
Documentary, History
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Judgment at Nuremberg
Released on: 1961-12-18
Drama, History
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Released on: 1957-10-11
Drama, History, War
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Enemy at the Gates
Released on: 2001-02-28
Drama, War, History, Romance
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Saving Private Ryan
Released on: 1998-07-24
War, Drama, History
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
The Deserter
Released on: 2025-05-08
Drama, History
1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...
The Diary of Anne Frank
Released on: 1959-03-18
Drama, History
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
The Last Drop
Released on: 2006-04-13
Action, Crime, History, War
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
Cameramen at War
Released on: 1943-01-01
Documentary, War
A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a co...
What the War Meant
Released on: 2008-12-24
Drama, War, History, TV Movie
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during Wo...
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
The Untouchables
Released on: 1987-06-03
Crime, History, Thriller
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...
The Bridge
Released on: 1959-10-21
Drama, History, War
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...
Mirror
Released on: 1975-03-07
Drama, History
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Released on: 2013-06-02
Drama, Documentary
British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...
Female Agents
Released on: 2008-02-08
War, History
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
Fascism in Colour
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary, History
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...