A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy

2022/08/31 • Released • English

Documentary
6.5
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.

Director : Steve James

Casts
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

Zach Twardowski

Ed Hall

Olivia Piper

Young Ruthie

Enzo Inalsingh

Sax baby

Kate Marie Smith

Susan Sax

Leslie Groves

Leslie Groves

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph E. Davies

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston

Walter Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ann Harding

Ann Harding

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Manart Kippen

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry L. Stimson

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Tibbets

Paul Tibbets

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julius Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ethel Rosenberg

Ethel Rosenberg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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