Adding spark to this summer’s Oppenheimer buzz is director Steve James’ intriguing new documentary, A Compassionate Spy. The filmmaker, whose previous work includes masterpieces like Hoop Dreams and The Interrupters, weaves together a captivating tale in his latest movie, which transports audiences back into the heart of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, singling out the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, Ted Hall, the spirited leftist who decided to pass key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. The layered documentary also reveals how Hall and his wife, Joan, kept that big secret throughout their 52-year marriage.
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