A Compassionate Spy (2022)
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.
- Released
- 2022-08-31
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Steve James
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- Theodore Hall as Self (archive footage)
- Joan Hall as Self
- Joseph Albright as Self
- Marcia Kunstel as Self
- Daniel Axelrod as Self
- J. Michael Wright as Ted Hall
- Lucy Zukaitis as Joan Hall
- Nicolas Eastlund as Savy Sax
- Mickey O'Sullivan as FBI Agent McQueen
- Tom Goodwin as FBI Agent 3
- Zach Twardowski as Ed Hall
- Olivia Piper as Young Ruthie
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