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A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy

Aug 31, 2022
102 min
Documentary
6.2/ 10
6 votes

Overview

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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TMDB
6.2/10
6 votes
IMDB
6.5/10
396 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
81%
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Metacritic
M
77/100
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US Box Office$34,502Domestic earnings

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3 nominations

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"He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it."

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Released

Original Language

en

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ParticipantKartemquin FilmsMitten Media

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