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A Compassionate Spy

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2022 · 102 min Documentary
6.2 / 10 · TMDB

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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Year 2022
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary
Director Steve James
Runtime 102 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.2/10 (6 votes)

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Steve James constructs a character study not of a spy, but of an idealist torn between duty to his country and conscience for humanity. He relies on intimate interviews, personal letters, and archival material to explore the moral anatomy of an act the world still judges ambiguously.

What lingers after the credits is the unsettling question of whether a betrayal can be the ultimate humanitarian act. The film leaves you to wrestle with the gray zones of history and conviction. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Steve James

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