A Compassionate Spy
A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy

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

6.2(6 votes)
2022
1h 42m
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.

Production

Participant, Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media

Cast

Theodore Hall

Theodore Hall

Self (archive footage)

Joan Hall

Joan Hall

Self

Joseph Albright

Joseph Albright

Self

Marcia Kunstel

Marcia Kunstel

Self

Daniel Axelrod

Daniel Axelrod

Self

J. Michael Wright

J. Michael Wright

Ted Hall

Lucy Zukaitis

Lucy Zukaitis

Joan Hall

Nicolas Eastlund

Nicolas Eastlund

Savy Sax

Mickey O'Sullivan

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

Tom Goodwin

Tom Goodwin

FBI Agent 3

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