A Compassionate Spy

He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.

102 mins
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.

Theodore Hall

Self (archive footage)

Lucy Zukaitis

Joan Hall

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

Tom Goodwin

FBI Agent 3

Olivia Piper

Young Ruthie

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)

Ann Harding

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Manart Kippen

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry L. Stimson

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Tibbets

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julius Rosenberg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ethel Rosenberg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Steve James

Director

Jeff Skoll

Executive Producer

Tim Horsburgh

Executive Producer

Diane Weyermann

Executive Producer

Tom Bergmann

Director of Photography

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