A Compassionate Spy
“He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.”
2022•1h 42m•6.2•Released
Documentary
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
Director
Steve James
Writer
Steve James
Languages
English
Studio
Participant
Cast
Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)
Joan Hall
Self
Joseph Albright
Self
Marcia Kunstel
Self
Daniel Axelrod
Self
J. Michael Wright
Ted Hall
Lucy Zukaitis
Joan Hall
Nicolas Eastlund
Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueen
Tom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3
Zach Twardowski
Ed Hall
Olivia Piper
Young Ruthie
Enzo Inalsingh
Sax baby
Kate Marie Smith
Susan Sax
Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Production
Company
Participant
Company
Kartemquin Films
Company
Mitten Media
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