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Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned during 1944—with Germany clearly losing the war—that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, he decided beginning that October to start passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, at the University of Chicago, he met and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for classical music and socialist causes — and the explosive secret of his espionage. Living under a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance and intimidation, the pair raised a family while Ted refocused his scientific brilliance on groundbreaking biophysics research.
Original Release
08/04/2023
US Release
08/04/2023
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Hall | Self |
Ted Hall | Self |
Joseph Albright | Self |
Daniel Axelrod | Self |
Tom Goodwin | FBI Agent 3 |
Edward N. Hall | Self |
Sara Hall | Self |
Marcia Kunstel | Self |
Ruth London | Self |
Mickey O'Sullivan | FBI Agent Robert McQueen / FBI Agent McQueen |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joan Hall | Self |
Ted Hall | Self |
Joseph Albright | Self |
Daniel Axelrod | Self |
Tom Goodwin | FBI Agent 3 |
Edward N. Hall | Self |
Sara Hall | Self |
Marcia Kunstel | Self |
Ruth London | Self |
Mickey O'Sullivan | FBI Agent Robert McQueen / FBI Agent McQueen |
Ethel Rosenberg | Self |
Julius Rosenberg | Self |
Boria Sax | Self |
Sarah Sax | Self |
Saville Sax | Self |
Joseph Stalin | Self |
Harry Truman | Self |
Lucy Zukaitis | Joan Hall |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tim Horsburgh | Executive Producer |
Gordon Quinn | Executive Producer |
Jeff Skoll | Executive Producer |
Diane Weyermann | Executive Producer |
Josh Hunnicutt | Producer |
David Lindorff | Producer |
Mark Mitten | Producer |
Steve James | Producer |