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A Compassionate Spy (2022)
Directed by Steve James
“He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.”
Documentary · 1h 42m
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.
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
N
Nicolas Eastlund
Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueen
T
Tom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3
Z
Zach Twardowski
Ed Hall
O
Olivia Piper
Young Ruthie
Crew
- Director
- Steve James
- Writer
- Steve James
- Director of Photography
- Tom Bergmann
- Editor
- Steve James
Details
- Release date
- 2022-08-31
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Participant, Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media