A Compassionate Spy
“He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.”
6.2
2022
1h 42m
Documentary
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.
Key Crew
Director
Steve James
Writers
Steve James
Cinematography
Tom Bergmann
Cast (27)
Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)
Joan Hall
Self
