A Compassionate Spy

6.2 2022 102 min

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-wa…

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Director: Steve James
Writer: Steve James

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Theodore Hall Self (archive footage)

Joan Hall Self

Joseph Albright Self

Marcia Kunstel Self

Daniel Axelrod Self

J. Michael Wright Ted Hall

Lucy Zukaitis Joan Hall

Nicolas Eastlund Savy Sax

Mickey O'Sullivan FBI Agent McQueen

Tom Goodwin FBI Agent 3

Zach Twardowski Ed Hall

Olivia Piper Young Ruthie

Enzo Inalsingh Sax baby

Kate Marie Smith Susan Sax

Leslie Groves Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J. Robert Oppenheimer Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph E. Davies Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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