A Compassionate Spy
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
6.2(6) 2022-08-31 102 minDocumentary
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.
DirectorSteve James
WriterSteve James
Cast & characters
Theodore Hall
as Self (archive footage)
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Joan Hall
as Self
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Joseph Albright
as Self
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Marcia Kunstel
as Self
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Daniel Axelrod
as Self
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J. Michael Wright
as Ted Hall
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Lucy Zukaitis
as Joan Hall
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Nicolas Eastlund
as Savy Sax
Mickey O'Sullivan
as FBI Agent McQueen
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Tom Goodwin
as FBI Agent 3
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Zach Twardowski
as Ed Hall
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Olivia Piper
as Young Ruthie
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Enzo Inalsingh
as Sax baby
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Kate Marie Smith
as Susan Sax
Leslie Groves
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Joseph E. Davies
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Huston
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ann Harding
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Manart Kippen
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Henry L. Stimson
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
