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A Compassionate Spy

Directed by Steve James
2023    1h 42m    NR
Documentary, Biography, History
6.581%76%
Rent for $7.99
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.
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Cast of A Compassionate Spy
  • Theodore HallSelf (archive footage)
  • Joan HallSelf
  • Joseph AlbrightSelf
  • Marcia KunstelSelf
  • Daniel AxelrodSelf
  • J. Michael WrightTed Hall
  • Lucy ZukaitisJoan Hall
  • Nicolas EastlundSavy Sax
  • Mickey O'SullivanFBI Agent McQueen
  • Tom GoodwinFBI Agent 3
  • Zach TwardowskiEd Hall
  • Olivia PiperYoung Ruthie
  • Enzo InalsinghSax baby
  • Kate Marie SmithSusan Sax
  • Leslie GrovesSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • J. Robert OppenheimerSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Joseph E. DaviesSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Walter HustonSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Ann HardingSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Manart KippenSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Harry S. TrumanSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Henry L. StimsonSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Joseph StalinSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Paul TibbetsSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Julius RosenbergSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Ethel RosenbergSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
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