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A Compassionate Spy

66 %|Aug 31, 2022|Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Steve James
Director
Jeff Skoll
Executive Producer
Tim Horsburgh
Executive Producer
Diane Weyermann
Executive Producer
Steve James
Editor
Tom Bergmann
Director of Photography
Steve James
Writer

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Cast

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Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)
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Lucy Zukaitis
Joan Hall
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Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueen
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Tom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3
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Olivia Piper
Young Ruthie
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Leslie Groves
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Joseph E. Davies
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Walter Huston
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Ann Harding
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Manart Kippen
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Harry S. Truman
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Henry L. Stimson
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Joseph Stalin
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Paul Tibbets
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Julius Rosenberg
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Ethel Rosenberg
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