A Compassionate Spy(2022)

movie - first aired/released 2022-08-31 - 102 min - audience 6.2

Documentary

Directed by Steve James

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.