Richard Rhodes

Filmmaker Robert Stone explores the history and future of nuclear power.

Rare footage and interviews tell the story of pioneering physicist Raemer Schreiber, who assembled the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki during WWII.

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the world’s most beautiful woman - Snow White and Catwoman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting looks and glamorous life stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work helped revolutionise modern communication. Supported by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

How one man's invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.