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Einstein and the Bomb

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 do...

Directed By: Anthony Philipson

Written By: Philip Ralph

  • 2024
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2024
  • TV-MA
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 16 m

Einstein and the Bomb

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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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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 do...

Directed By: Anthony Philipson

Written By: Philip Ralph

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Production Company BBC Studios
Release Date Feb 16, 2024
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating TV-MA
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