The Path to Nuclear Fission is the story of Lise Meitner, a brilliant Jewish physicist in 1930s Berlin. In 1907, Meitner came to Berlin as a shy young student from Vienna, and met the worldly Otto Hahn. They became close friends and colleagues, and they would make history when they discovered nuclear fission in 1938. This led to the invention of the atomic bomb, much to the horror of both. Hahn helped Meitner to flee from Nazi Germany to Sweden, but he would never credit her contribution when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945. This film, narrated by  actress Linda Hunt, tells her story for the first time.