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A Compassionate Spy

2023 | 1h 42m | Documentary, Biography, War
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Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb.

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You might find yourself checking your watch during the last 20 minutes, but as an examination of the post-war American psyche, it’s an insightful, disturbing, and genuinely novel slice of history.
★★★☆☆ | Read in full: A Compassionate Spy film review Jack Blackwell We Love Cinema

What others think

This first-rate portrait gets intimate with an atomic-age Edward Snowden, all the better to cast a long shadow.
Phil Hoad The Guardian
The film can’t help but find a measure of beauty in the unspoken trust that Ted and Joan placed in one another.
David Ehrlich IndieWire

A Compassionate Spy Movie details

Director

Steve James

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UK release date

24 Mar 2023

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