Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
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Roger Allam
- Narrator
- (voice)
David Haig-Thomas
- Self
- (archive footage)
Harold Rickett
- Self
- (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Iosif Stalin)
J. Edgar Hoover
- Self
- (archive footage)
Kim Philby
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Harold Philby)
Guy Burgess
- Self
- (archive footage)
Anthony Blunt
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Excellent Documentary
I have given this a 10 because it was interesting and gave a complete overview of the Cambridge spy network that was uncovered. No mention of a fifth man, or sixth, it just concentrated on the facts.
This is unlike the accompanying drama Spies Among Friends which I found overly long, drawn out and flawed by tokenism (the invention of characters).
Roger Allam is an excellent narrator and the historians and subject experts were interesting and informed.
The "old boys network" can never have had a worst moment than the covering up, or just ignoring, the misdemeanors of their chums. Asonishing that Antony Blunt was outed in the 1960s and it was hushed up. As he was the Queen's art curator at the time, this really didn't do her any favours in retrospect.
It took Maggie Thatcher to out him publicly in the 1980s.
This is unlike the accompanying drama Spies Among Friends which I found overly long, drawn out and flawed by tokenism (the invention of characters).
Roger Allam is an excellent narrator and the historians and subject experts were interesting and informed.
The "old boys network" can never have had a worst moment than the covering up, or just ignoring, the misdemeanors of their chums. Asonishing that Antony Blunt was outed in the 1960s and it was hushed up. As he was the Queen's art curator at the time, this really didn't do her any favours in retrospect.
It took Maggie Thatcher to out him publicly in the 1980s.
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By what name was The Real Spies Among Friends (2022) officially released in Canada in English?
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