A Compassionate Spy
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
2022 | 102m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Steve James |
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| Writer: | Steve James |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Aug 31, 2022 |
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| Director: | Steve James |
| Writer: | Steve James |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | fbi, atomic bomb, world war ii, espionage, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapons, soviet spy, manhattan project, los alamos |
| Production Companies | Participant, Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Tom Bergmann | Director of Photography |
| Steve James | Director, Writer, Editor |
| Name | Title |
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| Diane Weyermann | Executive Producer |
| Tim Horsburgh | Executive Producer |
| Jeff Skoll | Executive Producer |
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