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• Oppenheimer - The Series | DVD | (11/09/2023) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All seven episodes of the BBC drama starring Sam Waterston as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the team on the Manhattan Project to develop and build the first atomic bombs during WWII. A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer is nevertheless suspected of communist sympathies by the government. Meanwhile, as he begins to realise the scale of the weapon he has helped to create, he becomes increasingly ambivalent, and even hostile, about its eventual use. The cast also includes Peter Banks, David Suchet and Colin Bennett.

• Saturn 3 | DVD | (22/05/2000) from £5.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (18.68%)   |  RRP £6.99

  On a Saturn space station Adam and Alex are two scientists seeking new forms of food for the impoverished planet earth. Their idyllic life is interrupted by the arrival of Captain James a psychopathic maniac from earth who brings with him a 'helper' in the form of a murderous robot who gradually develops a mind of its own. Saturn 3 is an entertaining fusion of sci-fi horror and suspense culminating in the ultimate battle of man against machine.

• Oppenheimer | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The acclaimed, multi award-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, starring Sam Waterston. Sam Waterston stars in this classic seven-part BBC mini-series as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project to build the weapon that would bring a devastating end to World War Two.A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer began to realise the scale of the weapon he was developing, and he became increasingly ambivalent and even hostile about its eventual use. His fears lead the military establishment to suspect him of having Communist sympathies and, during the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer found himself accused of being a risk to national security.The series won three BAFTAs including Best Drama Series, and was nominated for two Emmys. Sam Waterston was nominated for the Best Actor Golden Globe.