

He saw a world about to burn and would do anything to save it.
August 31, 2022
1h 42m
EN
Steve James
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.

Theodore Hall
Self (archive footage)

Joan Hall
Self

Joseph Albright
Self

Marcia Kunstel
Self



Steve James
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Daniel Axelrod
Self

J. Michael Wright
Ted Hall

Lucy Zukaitis
Joan Hall

Nicolas Eastlund
Savy Sax

Mickey O'Sullivan
FBI Agent McQueen

Tom Goodwin
FBI Agent 3

Participant
US

Kartemquin Films
US

Mitten Media
US