A Compassionate Spy
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
Documentary
6.2
6.21h 42m
August 31, 2022
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
Cast
Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)
J
Joan Hall
Self
J
Joseph Albright
Self
M
Marcia Kunstel
Self
D
Daniel Axelrod
Self
J
J. Michael Wright
Ted Hall
L
Lucy Zukaitis
Joan Hall
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