Netflix war film based on a harrowing true story as legend forced to hide from Nazis - AOL

Netflix’s 2024 war film Einstein and the Bomb is set against the backdrop of 1932, when Albert Einstein fled Nazi Germany. The movie focuses on how Einstein’s scientific work—especially his mass-energy equivalence concept—helped shape the scientific thinking that indirectly contributed to the atomic bomb. It also dramatizes his years in hiding in Norfolk, England, where he sheltered in a modest wooden cabin while fearing assassination. Drawing on Einstein’s speeches, letters and interviews, the film is inspired by Stuart McLaren’s non-fiction book Saving Einstein: When Norfolk Hid a Genius. Aidan McArdle plays Einstein, alongside Andrew Havill, Rachel Barry and Helena Westerman.