A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy (2022)

31/08/2022
Documentary
1h 42m

He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.

Overview

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.

  • Steve JamesDirector, Writer
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

Keywords

  • espionage
  • atomic bomb
  • fbi
  • world war ii
  • nuclear bomb
  • nuclear weapons
  • soviet spy
  • manhattan project
  • los alamos

Top Billed Cast

Theodore Hall

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

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

Tom Goodwin

FBI Agent 3

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