A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy (2022)

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

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.

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  • Release Date: 2022-08-31
  • Runtime: 1h 42min
  • Director: Steve James

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    • Trailer

    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)

    • J. Robert Oppenheimer

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Joseph E. Davies

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Walter Huston

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Ann Harding

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Manart Kippen

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Harry S. Truman

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Dwight D. Eisenhower

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Henry L. Stimson

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Joseph Stalin

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Paul Tibbets

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Julius Rosenberg

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Ethel Rosenberg

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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