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Status
Released
Release
2022
Runtime
47m
Streaming availability by country
Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
19 Cast Members
Roger Allam
self (narrator)
Annie Machon
Self - Former MI5 intelligence officer
Ben Macintyre
Self - Author of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Dr. Helen Fry
Self - British Intelligence historian
Dita Gjuraj
Self
Tom Bower
Self
Roland Philipps
Self - Author of 'A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean'
James P. Olsen
Self - Former Chief of Counterintelligence at the CIA
Miranda Carter
Self - Author of 'Anthony Blunt: His Lives'
Mikhail Petrovich Lyubimov
Self - Former KGB colonel
David Haig Thomas
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Harold Rickett
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Kim Philby
Self (archive footage)
Guy Burgess
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Blunt
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage)
