A COMPASSIONATE SPY

By Steve JAMES

CINETIC MEDIA - as SALES All rights

Documentary - Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

Telluride FF 2022
Venice - Biennale 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Director(s)
    • Steve JAMES
    • Synopsis
    • Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, but didn’t share his colleagues’ excitement after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that the new weapon would give the U.S. a post-war monopoly on global power and could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union, allowing them to build their own atomic arsenal.