A Compassionate Spy
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
August 31, 2022
102 min
✓ Released 1366 days ago
Documentary
6.2
User Score
6 votes
About
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Steve James
Runtime: 102 min
Top 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
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