A Compassionate Spy

Name: A Compassionate Spy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 6.2

2022 · 102 min

Documentary

★ 6.2

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Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Steve James
Writer Steve James
Director of Photography Tom Bergmann

Cast

Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)
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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
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Nicolas Eastlund
Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueen
T
Tom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3
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Zach Twardowski
Ed Hall
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Olivia Piper
Young Ruthie

Crew

Director — Steve James
Writer — Steve James
Director of Photography — Tom Bergmann

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🔥 Hot takes

warming up the wall…

Intermission

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