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A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy

Steve James

2022

  • Documentary
6.2

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 & crew

  • Steve JamesDirector
  • Theodore HallSelf (archive footage)
  • Joan HallSelf
  • Joseph AlbrightSelf
  • Marcia KunstelSelf
  • Daniel AxelrodSelf
  • J. Michael WrightTed Hall
  • Lucy ZukaitisJoan Hall
  • Nicolas EastlundSavy Sax

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