- Documentary
- 102 min
Rotten Tomatoes81%Metacritic77IMDb6.5
He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
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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Cast
- Theodore HallSelf (archive footage)
- Joan HallSelf
- Joseph AlbrightSelf
- Marcia KunstelSelf
- Daniel AxelrodSelf
- J. Michael WrightTed Hall
- Lucy ZukaitisJoan Hall
- Nicolas EastlundSavy Sax
- Mickey O'SullivanFBI Agent McQueen
- Tom GoodwinFBI Agent 3
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- Steve JamesDirector
- Steve JamesWriter
- Tom BergmannDirector of Photography
- Steve JamesEditor
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- Joseph StalinThemselves
- J. Robert OppenheimerThemselves
- Dwight D. EisenhowerThemselves
- Harry S. TrumanThemselves
- Walter HustonThemselves
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