poster

2022

(08/31/2022) (US)

Documentary,

1h 42m

62

User Score

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

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.

2022

62

User Score

(08/31/2022) (US)

Documentary,

1h 42m

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

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.

Cast

Theodore Hall

Theodore Hall

Self (archive footage)

Lucy Zukaitis

Lucy Zukaitis

Joan Hall

Mickey O'Sullivan

Mickey O'Sullivan

FBI Agent McQueen

Tom Goodwin

Tom Goodwin

FBI Agent 3

Olivia Piper

Olivia Piper

Young Ruthie

Leslie Groves

Leslie Groves

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph E. Davies

Joseph E. Davies

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Walter Huston

Walter Huston

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ann Harding

Ann Harding

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Manart Kippen

Manart Kippen

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)