BBC iPlayer Adds Classic Oppenheimer Series

The classic BBC series Oppenheimer, which stars Sam Waterston as atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer, is now available as a boxset on iPlayer.

The BAFTA-winning seven-part series originally aired on the BBC in 1980. Waterston plays the titular scientist as he leads the weapons laboratory of the Manhattan Project, all the while under constant surveillance by the FBI because of his left-wing politics and association with communists.

Every episode is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer, and the series will air weekly on BBC Four on Saturday nights from August 12.