A Compassionate Spy (2022)
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
2022 · 1h 42m · Documentary
Genres: 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…
Director: Steve James
Writers: Steve James
Cinematography: Tom Bergmann
Editor: Steve James
Cast
Theodore Hall as Self (archive footage)Joan Hall as SelfJoseph Albright as SelfMarcia Kunstel as SelfDaniel Axelrod as SelfJ. Michael Wright as Ted HallLucy Zukaitis as Joan HallNicolas Eastlund as Savy SaxMickey O'Sullivan as FBI Agent McQueenTom Goodwin as FBI Agent 3Zach Twardowski as Ed HallOlivia Piper as Young RuthieMore like this
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