A Compassionate Spy (2022)

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.

Cast (27)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Theodore Hall

Self (archive footage)

J

Joan Hall

Self

J

Joseph Albright

Self

M

Marcia Kunstel

Self

D

Daniel Axelrod

Self

J

J. Michael Wright

Ted Hall

L

Lucy Zukaitis

Joan Hall

N

Nicolas Eastlund

Savy Sax

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

T

Tom Goodwin

FBI Agent 3

Z

Zach Twardowski

Ed Hall

O

Olivia Piper

Young Ruthie

E

Enzo Inalsingh

Sax baby

K

Kate Marie Smith

Susan Sax

Leslie Groves

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J

Joseph E. Davies

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ann Harding

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

M

Manart Kippen

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

H

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)

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