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2022

A Compassionate Spy

Directed by Steve James
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.

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.

Duration

1h 42m

Released

August 31, 2022

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Cast27

  • Theodore Hall
  • Joan Hall
  • Joseph Albright
  • Marcia Kunstel
  • Daniel Axelrod
  • J. Michael Wright
  • Lucy Zukaitis
  • Nicolas Eastlund
  • Mickey O'Sullivan

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