A Compassionate Spy (2022)
"He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it."

Title: A Compassionate Spy
Original Title: A Compassionate Spy
Release Date: 2022-08-31
Status: Released
Rating: 6.6/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Participant, Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media
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.
Cast

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