A Compassionate Spy
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.
About
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it. 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.
Details
Directors
Steve James
Writers
Steve James
Cast
Theodore Hall, Joan Hall, Joseph Albright, Marcia Kunstel, Daniel Axelrod, J. Michael Wright, Lucy Zukaitis, Nicolas Eastlund, Mickey O'Sullivan, Tom Goodwin, Zach Twardowski, Olivia Piper, Enzo Inalsingh, Kate Marie Smith, Leslie Groves
Production
Participant, Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media
Languages
English
Countries
United States of America
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