A Compassionate Spy

Directed by Steve James

Written by Steve James

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)

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Joan Hall

Self

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Joseph Albright

Self

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Marcia Kunstel

Self

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Daniel Axelrod

Self

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J. Michael Wright

Ted Hall

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Lucy Zukaitis

Joan Hall

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Nicolas Eastlund

Savy Sax

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

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Tom Goodwin

FBI Agent 3

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Zach Twardowski

Ed Hall

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Olivia Piper

Young Ruthie