CALIFORNIA

Royal | Los Angeles, CA
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COLORADO

Boedecker Theater | Boulder, CO
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WASHINGTON, DC

J & J Cafritz Hall | Washington, DC
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DELEWARE

The Screening Room at 1313 | Wilmington, DE
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FLORIDA

Lake Worth Playhouse | Lakeland, FL
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ILLINOIS

Gene Siskel Film Center | Chicago, IL
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Wayfarer Theaters| Highland Park, IL
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MISSOURI

Bookhouse Cinema | Joplin, MO
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NORTH CAROLINA

Aperture Cinema | Winston-Salem, NC
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NEW JERSEY

Princeton Garden Theatre | Princeton, NJ
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ACME | Lambertville, NJ
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NEW YORK

Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film | New York, NY
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Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center | Sag Harbor, NY

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OHIO

Gateway Film Center 8 | Columbus, OH
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Nightlight Cinema | Akron, OH
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OKLAHOMA

Circle Cinema | Tulsa, OK
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PENNSYLVANIA

Ambler Theatre | Ambler, PA
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WASHINGTON

Kiggins | Vancouver, WA
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Magic Lantern Theatre Spokane | Spokane, WA
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STORY
Acclaimed filmmaker Steve James’ A COMPASSIONATE SPY is a gripping real-life espionage thriller about controversial Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union. After the war, he met, fell in love with, 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. The pair raised a family while living under a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance and intimidation. Two-time Oscar® nominee Steve James’ nuanced and ever-relevant documentary reveals the twists and turns of this real-life spy story, its profound impact on nuclear history, and the couple’s remarkable love and life together during more than 50 years of marriage.

DIRECTED BY
Steve James

PRODUCED BY
Mark Mitten p.g.a.
Dave Lindorff
Steve James