A Compassionate Spy (2022)
August 31, 2022
Documentary
1h 42m


He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
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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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Steve James
- Self (archive footage) Theodore Hall
- FBI Agent McQueen Mickey O'Sullivan
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Leslie Groves
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Walter Huston
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Ann Harding
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Harry S. Truman
- Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Keywords
- espionage
- atomic bomb
- fbi
- world war ii
- nuclear bomb
- nuclear weapons
- soviet spy
- manhattan project
- los alamos