A Compassionate Spy

Name: A Compassionate Spy
Director: Steve James
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-08-31
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Theodore Hall, Joan Hall, Joseph Albright, Marcia Kunstel, Daniel Axelrod

Directed by Steve James

Documentary

20221h 42m6.2

Overview

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.