A Compassionate Spy
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
6.2
6 votes
August 31, 2022
1h 42m
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.
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Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)Joan Hall
SelfJoseph Albright
SelfMarcia Kunstel
SelfDaniel Axelrod
SelfJ. Michael Wright
Ted HallLucy Zukaitis
Joan HallNicolas Eastlund
Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueenTom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3Zach Twardowski
Ed HallOlivia Piper
Young RuthieEnzo Inalsingh
Sax babyKate Marie Smith
Susan Sax
Leslie Groves
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