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2) Sleepers
Publisher
[BBC Video]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"A four-part spy satire about two long-forgotten KGB agents in England who have no intention of coming in from the cold. In fact, their 25 years as 'sleeper' agents -- during which time they had no contact with the Kremlin --have been quite comfortable. Albert Robinson (Warren Clarke) has a wife, three children, and a good job in a Lancashire brewery; and bachelor Jeremy Coward (Nigel Havers) is a London investment banker with a couple of residences...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Oleg Gordievsky was a spy like no other. The product of a KGB family and the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Russian eventually saw the lies and terror of the regime for what they were, a realization that turned him irretrievably toward the West. His KGB career took flight in Copenhagen in 1966 and eventually brought him to the highest post in the KGB's London station--but throughout that time he was secretly working for MI6, the...
Publisher
Thames
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Thrilling, suspenseful dramatization of the real-life adventures of Agent ST-I, aka Sidney Reilly, the inspiration behind Ian Fleming's James Bond. Shot's in glorious period detail, one heart-pulsing mission after another captures the arc of Reilly's brilliant career. From stealing top-secret Russian oil information to a near overthrow of the Bolshevik Revolution to his final capture by Stalin's forces in 1918, Reilly's exploits are at times so daring...
6) Enigma
Series
Publisher
S'More Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The CIA discovers a Russian plot to assassinate five Soviet dissidents on Christmas Day, but they do not know who they are. Alex Holbeck is recruited in Paris by CIA and sent to E. Berlin to steal Enigma, the machine used by Soviet intelligence for communication. On the arrival, Holbeck discovers that the KGB and the East Germany government know that he has arrived and his contacts are arrested." --
Publisher
Movie Ventures
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Blunt: "In 1951, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, trusted members of British Intelligence, defected to Russia. They were part of the notorious Cambridge spy ring, recruited during the 1930's by Anthony Blunt. Blunt eluded detection for another thirteen years until, in 1964, he confessed to treason in an immunity deal which allowed him to keep his knighthood and continue as Surveyor of the Queen's art collection. When this story was exposed in 1979,...
8) Red Joan
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...
9) Daniel
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After his parents work with the Communist Party and are executed for selling secrets to the Soviets, a young man involves himself in the protests of the 60's, and lives with his belief that his parents were wrongly murdered.
