A Compassionate Spy
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.
- Year: 2022
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Participant, Kartemquin Films, Mitten Media
- Keyword: espionage, atomic bomb, fbi, world war ii, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapons, soviet spy, manhattan project, los alamos
- Director: Steve James
- Cast: Theodore Hall, Joan Hall, Joseph Albright, Marcia Kunstel, Daniel Axelrod, J. Michael Wright