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The Real Spies Among Friends
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The Real Spies Among Friends

2022-12-08 · 47 min · ★ 8.0

Documentary · History · Drama

Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.

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Directors
Nick Tanner
Production companies
Wingspan Productions
Countries
United Kingdom
Status
Released

Top Cast

Roger AllamRoger Allamself (narrator)
Annie MachonAnnie MachonSelf - Former MI5 intelligence officer
Ben MacintyreBen MacintyreSelf - Author of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Dr. Helen FrySelf - British Intelligence historian
Dita GjurajSelf
Tom BowerTom BowerSelf
Roland PhilippsSelf - Author of 'A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean'
James P. OlsenSelf - Former Chief of Counterintelligence at the CIA
Miranda CarterSelf - Author of 'Anthony Blunt: His Lives'
Mikhail Petrovich LyubimovSelf - Former KGB colonel
David Haig ThomasSelf (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
Harold RickettSelf (archive footage)
Joseph StalinJoseph StalinSelf (archive footage)
J. Edgar HooverJ. Edgar HooverSelf (archive footage)
Kim PhilbyKim PhilbySelf (archive footage)
Guy BurgessSelf (archive footage)
Anthony BluntSelf (archive footage)
Margaret ThatcherMargaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)

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