Following the release of Christopher Nolan’s smash hit Oppenheimer, another smaller film looks to explore another controversial figure aboard the Manhattan Project.
A Compassionate Spy from Academy Award-nominated Hoop Dreams director Steve James is a documentary about Theodore Hall, a young physicist who fears a future of nuclear annihilation and begins passing information to the Soviets to help tip the scales and prevent a U.S.
atomic bomb monopoly.
Despite being morally-conflicted colleagues, Hall and J.
Robert Oppenheimer are vastly different people in James’s eyes.
Speaking to Collider’s Chase Hutchinson, the director compares his subject to Nsa whistleblower and U.S.
defector Edward Snowden.
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