Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

Double agents. Dark sources. Deadly missions.

6.3(3)|2024-05-08|1 seasons, 3 episodes

DocumentaryWar & Politics

Overview

Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

Episodes

Season 1(3)

S1E1 · 2024-05-08 · 58m

Paranoia

6.5

Two spies turn double agents at the height of the Cold War standoff between East and West. Their deception happens as the superpowers edge towards nuclear war.

S1E2 · 2024-05-15 · 58m

Traitors

6.5

Spies work behind the scenes as the superpowers enter a new era. Intelligence pushes world leaders towards a more peaceful approach. But a new danger is lurking in the shadows.

S1E3 · 2024-05-22 · 59m

Operation Pimlico

6.5

Battles between Cold War spies lead to danger, betrayal and a dramatic escape, all threatening to derail the fragile move towards world peace.

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Saskia Reeves

Self - Narrator (voice)

Martin Munro

Oleg Gordievsky

Jacques Theron

Aldrich Ames

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)