Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich Werner Heisenberg (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV Episode | Documentary, History, War

Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich

Werner Heisenberg (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV Episode | Documentary, History, War

As one of their most controversial scientists, Heisenberg was key in the Nazis' efforts to build an atomic bomb. How close was he to achieving his goal?

Director

Marion Marot

Producer

Marion Marot

Editors

Jamie Louden | David McSkimming

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 22, 2023

Release date

Dec 22, 2023 (United Kingdom)

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25 cast members

Name	Known for
Guy Walters Self - Author and Historian Self - Author and Historian See fewer	World War Weird (2017)
Mark Walker Self - Union College, New York (as Dr. Mark Walker) Self - Union College, New York (as Dr. Mark Walker) See fewer	Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023)
Nigel Jones Self - Author and Historian Self - Author and Historian See fewer	Secrets of the Railways (2019)
Gerhard Rammer Self - Deutsches Technikmuseum (as Dr. Gerhard Rammer) Self - Deutsches Technikmuseum (as Dr. Gerhard Rammer) See fewer	Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023)
Kathryn Olesko Self - Georgetown University (as Dr. Kathryn Olesko) Self - Georgetown University (as Dr. Kathryn Olesko) See fewer	Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023)
Magnus Brechtken Self - Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (as Dr. Magnus Brechtken) Self - Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (as Dr. Magnus Brechtken) See fewer	Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023)
Gunhild Lurås Self - Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum Self - Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum See fewer	Europe from Above (2019)
Shalina Patel Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Dialogues of Diaspora (2022)
Katherine Landdeck Self - Texas Woman's University (as Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck) Self - Texas Woman's University (as Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck) See fewer	Silver Wings
Egidius Fechter Self - Atomkeller Museum Self - Atomkeller Museum See fewer	Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023)
Tom Ward Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Quills (2000)
Chris Holmes Reenactment Cast Reenactment Cast See fewer	Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023)
Neil Summerville Reenactment Cast Reenactment Cast See fewer	Edge of Extinction (2020)
James Wright Reenactment Cast Reenactment Cast See fewer	Abandoned Engineering (2016)
Winston Churchill Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Matinee Theatre (1955)
Albert Einstein Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Schooling the World (2010)
Joseph Goebbels Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Der Führer (1932)
Hermann Göring Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935)
Werner Heisenberg Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Horizon (I) (1964)
Rudolf Hess Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Heinrich Himmler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Nuremberg (1948)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Mystery (1936)
Harry S. Truman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The History of Sportfishing