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A Compassionate Spy

Documentary

2022, Movie, 1h 42min

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.

Country: United States

Director:

Steve James

Cast:

Joseph Stalin,

Walter Huston,

Dwight D. Eisenhower,

Ann Harding

Reviews

Critic Phil Hoad

rated

This first-rate portrait gets intimate with an atomic-age Edward Snowden, all the better to cast a long shadow.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Jacob Oller

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The historical relevance is only a launchpad for this cinematic statement of ethics, where the best weapon against institutional evil is the steady, lifelong, personal pursuit of good.

Read full review at Paste Magazine

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A Compassionate Spy tells the story of Theodore Hall, a young physicist recruited to work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. As he learns the true nature of the weapon being developed, Hall becomes increasingly concerned about the risk of a nuclear holocaust and decides to pass crucial information to the Soviet Union. Through interviews, archival footage, and reenactments, the documentary explores Hall's motivations, the tensions of the Cold War, and the personal and political consequences of his actions. A gripping and thought-provoking account of a critical moment in modern history.

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