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A Compassionate Spy

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.

2022 |1h 42m |  Documentary

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Theodore Hall

Self (archive footage)

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Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

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Leslie Groves

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Walter Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Ann Harding

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Paul Tibbets

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Julius Rosenberg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Ethel Rosenberg

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Language

English

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