How Christopher Nolan Used Black-and-White Film to Tell the “Oppenheimer” Story

Content warning: The following story contains spoilers for “Oppenheimer.”

Christopher Nolan’s sweeping film “Oppenheimer” tells the true story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), who led the creation of the world’s first atomic weapons as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. The movie covers his life story from his days as a young man in Europe to his early professorship in California, and follows him past World War II to the years in which the government came after him…