A Compassionate Spy
2022
6.2 (6)
1 hr 42 min
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.
Top Cast
Theodore Hall as Self (archive footage)
Joan Hall as Self
Joseph Albright as Self
Marcia Kunstel as Self
Daniel Axelrod as Self
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