The viewer who has seen countless WWII documentaries will initially have an interest in this docu about one of the most brilliant people who have ever lived - Einstein.

However, as the viewer watches this supposed docu, reality starts setting in.....

This docu is really pathetic. It does inform a 'little' about Einstein's life, but the overall impact is very shallow - it does not go into the detail that is required for such a historically important person.

Also - the intelligent American will get the distinct feeling that this docu has a very strong smell of left wing when clips of the bomb explode in Japan and victims are shown etc.

Japan deserves zero empathy for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan killed millions of people in WWII all over the world, and very heavy in China which for whatever reason, American schools do not teach.

Some of the Japanese citizens DO deserve empathy - those who opposed Japan's war initiatives, etc. - but especially the innocent of Japan - the children, infants, etc.

Overall - this docu is practically WORTHLESS. An in-depth docu of Einstein would actually have value. Again, there is a strong stench of typical netflix social programming left wing propaganda. Hey netflix - you can't fool the smart American. Ever.

"Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have taken part in opening that Pandora's box." - Albert Einstein Einstein was a vocal advocate for peace. He was a pacifist. But when he received a letter from Leo Szilard ( who not only proposed the idea of chain reaction but also conducted the experiment) alerting Einstein about German scientists working on fission (based on the famous E= mc squared by Einstein) which could result into Hitler having the A-bomb before the allied could develop it. Einstein forwarded that letter to FDR and urging him to hasten the development of an A-bomb by saying " I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." Very few would know that U. S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project!!!!

This documentary is a part essay, part revisiting the chapters of his life. It combines archival footage with dramatizations. The movie starts with his living room in his Princeton home with Mahatma Gandhi's photo on a night stand and ends with his famous quote " the war is won but the peace is not". He was so right. The unleashed power of atom as he said once would change everything in the years to come as the human race would gradually drift towards the unfathomable fears of catastrophe ... when the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 1945, Einstein sighed and said "Woe is me." Einstein showed measurement. Measurement is a possibility on which the science depends..but did you know that Heisenberg who gave an uncertainty principle failed at Diffusion equation?i or really? Did he pretend that he failed so that Nazis could not have the bomb!!!!! He as a matter of fact told Otto Hahn, the German nuclear scientist later how the little boy worked after Hiroshima was bombed!!!!

This documentary is not a biopic like Oppenheimer nor a play like Copenhagen. But it does explore one of the greatest scientist's own conflicted emotions..a human's great discovery falls into demonic hands aka of humans!! The movie feels rushed in the second half and fails to capture the depth of Einstein's dilemma. But still a good watch!

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Einstein.

Netflix is trying to make a drama out of Einstein's history, a bomb that he has no direct relation to, or maybe they are trying to ride on the success of Oppenheimer.

No scientific proof that Einstein was involved with the bomb, some weird letters and ideas are not developed behind. No mention of Oppenheimer. I lost my time watching it.

I Do not suggest to watch it... it's neither a documentary nor a movie.

If you are looking for something similar to Oppenheimer, this is not it. A big chunck of it talks about his early life, and few mention of his relativity theiries, but no deep explanation or whatsoever.