A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy (2022)

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

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2022-08-31
  • User Rating: 6.6/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 42min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Participant
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Steve James
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Summary

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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  • Theodore Hall

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Joan Hall

    as Self
  • Joseph Albright

    as Self
  • Marcia Kunstel

    as Self
  • Daniel Axelrod

    as Self
  • J. Michael Wright

    as Ted Hall
  • Lucy Zukaitis

    as Joan Hall
  • Nicolas Eastlund

    as Savy Sax
  • Mickey O'Sullivan

    as FBI Agent McQueen
  • Tom Goodwin

    as FBI Agent 3
  • Zach Twardowski

    as Ed Hall
  • Olivia Piper

    as Young Ruthie
  • Enzo Inalsingh

    as Sax baby
  • Kate Marie Smith

    as Susan Sax
  • Leslie Groves

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Joseph E. Davies

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Walter Huston

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Ann Harding

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Manart Kippen

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Harry S. Truman

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Henry L. Stimson

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Joseph Stalin

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Paul Tibbets

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Julius Rosenberg

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Ethel Rosenberg

    as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Directing Steve James Director
Production Jeff Skoll Executive Producer
Production Tim Horsburgh Executive Producer
Production Diane Weyermann Executive Producer
Writing Steve James Writer
Editing Steve James Editor
Camera Tom Bergmann Director of Photography

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