A Compassionate Spy

"A Compassionate Spy" is a gripping documentary that tells the true story of Theodore Hall, a brilliant physicist recruited to join the Manhattan Project at just 16 years old, who becomes a Soviet spy and passes crucial information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, sparking fears of nuclear holocaust after World War II. Through an intimate interview with Hall and his wife, combined with archive footage and dramatic reenactments, this film reveals the complex moral dilemma faced by one man who sought to prevent a catastrophic war.