I’ve acquired an interesting trailer for a documentary titled A Compassionate Spy, and it tells the unimaginable true espionage story of Manhattan Challenge scientist Ted Corridor, who shared labeled nuclear secrets and techniques with Russia in the course of the improvement of the Atomic Bomb.

A Compassionate Spy is “a gripping real-life espionage thriller about controversial Manhattan Challenge physicist Ted Corridor, who infamously offered nuclear secrets and techniques to the Soviet Union, instructed via the angle of his loving spouse Joan, who protected his secret for many years. Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to assist Robert Oppenheimer and his workforce create a bomb, Corridor was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Challenge, and did not share his colleagues’ elation after the profitable detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Involved {that a} U.S. post-war monopoly on such a robust weapon might result in nuclear disaster, Corridor started passing key particulars in regards to the bomb’s development to the Soviet Union.”

Earlier than the battle, “he met, fell in love with, and married Joan, a fellow pupil with whom he shared a ardour for classical music and socialist causes —and the explosive secret of his espionage. The pair raised a household whereas residing below a cloud of suspicion and years of FBI surveillance & intimidation. Two-time Oscar nominee Steve James’ nuanced, ever-relevant documentary movie reveals the twists and turns of this real-life spy story, its profound influence on nuclear historical past, and the couple’s exceptional love and life spent collectively throughout greater than 50 years of marriage.”

Corridor himself is interviewed alongside together with his spouse Joan Corridor, and he has fairly an insane story to inform. It makes me surprise if he regrets what he did realizing what Russia finally grew to become.

The film comes from director Steve James (Hoop Desires, Life Itself about Roger Ebert, The Interrupters, Abacus: Small Sufficient to Jail). Magnolia Footage will launch the movie in choose theaters and on VOD on August 4th, 2023.