• 2019
  • TV-PG
Spy Wars

Summary A docuseries that examines some of the most important international spy operations of the last forty years. View more details

  • 2019
  • TV-PG

Spy Wars

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Damian Lewis Ibrahim Majid Yanick Ghanty David Major

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7.7

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 6, 2019

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : A+E Networks A&E Networks UK Alaska TV Productions

Summary A docuseries that examines some of the most important international spy operations of the last forty years. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 6, 2019

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : A+E Networks A&E Networks UK Alaska TV Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 06, 2019
The Man Who Saved the World
At a time when the Cold War spying game was in full swing, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the KGB's rising stars...and biggest traitors. For years, he provided top-secret Russian intelligence to the British, but he is best remembered for risking his life in 1983 to pull the world back from the brink of nuclear annihilation. Presented by host Damian Lewis and backed by firsthand accounts by Gordievsky himself, we detail the spy's incredible career as a double agent and his gripping defection out of Russia.
Episode 2 • Oct 13, 2019
Bombs in the Sky
It was the largest surveillance operation in British history, involving 800 agents monitoring 24 suspects around the clock in order to thwart a fiendish terrorist plot. Host Damian Lewis examines the 2006 joint investigation between MI5, London's Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism Unit, and the CIA to track down a homegrown Al Qaeda cell in east London and stop its plan to blow up multiple U.S.-bound passenger planes using liquid bombs.
Episode 3 • Oct 20, 2019
Spies Next Door
It was the biggest East-West swap since the Cold War: four CIA and MI6 agents traded for ten deep cover Russian agents caught posing as Americans across the country. The 2010 spy exchange itself was global news, but the events leading up to and following the trade would shock the world to its core. Join host Damian Lewis as he details the Russian plot and how the undoing of this operation marked the beginning of a new era of espionage with an ex-KGB spymaster at its heart: Vladimir Putin.
Episode 4 • Oct 27, 2019
A Perfect Traitor
He was the most dangerous mole in intelligence history, an FBI security specialist who supplied the KGB with the identities of hundreds of U.S. double agents in Russia and thousands of pages of America's most closely guarded secrets. This is the story of Robert Hanssen, who systematically compromised every single operative the FBI had working in Russia. Host Damian Lewis reveals how Hanssen's actions pitted the CIA against the FBI and triggered a mole hunt that brought the American intelligence services to their knees.
Episode 5 • Nov 03, 2019
Escape From Tehran
In November 1979, 53 American employees of the U.S. Embassy in Iran were taken hostage by Islamic revolutionaries. Six diplomats managed to escape, but getting out of the country seemed impossible. Enter CIA officer Tony Mendez, who used inspiration from Hollywood to school six frightened diplomats in the art of assuming false identities and pulled off a bold rescue mission during one of the darkest moments in American foreign policy history.
Episode 6 • Nov 10, 2019
Trojan Horse
The story of Vladimir Vetrov, originally a high ranking KGB Officer stationed in Paris during the Cold War which later became a secret operative for the French intelligence service.
Episode 7 • Nov 17, 2019
Merchant of Death
It was called Operation Relentless, a secret intelligence plot devised by the United States' Drug Enforcement Administration to bring down the most deadly arms dealer in history: the Kremlin-backed Viktor Bout. Host Damian Lewis reveals how a team of undercover operatives pitted their wits against the notorious illegal arms trader, posing as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia and putting their lives on the line to stop him and his international drug-armament empire.
Episode 8 • Nov 24, 2019
Exodus
It was called Operation Brothers, a 1980s covert Mossad mission to rescue 12,000 Ethiopians, Jewish descendants of the lost tribe of Israel, from Sudan. The mission would take five years to pull off, involving an audacious plot, a maverick field agent, and a small group of deep cover operatives who ran a fake scuba diving resort so convincingly, they actually turned a profit. Host Damian Lewis guides us through the improbable rescue mission.
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