Introduction

Host Damian Lewis invites you into the world of clandestine ops as he examines some of the modern era’s most remarkable intelligence and security missions.

Outline

See how Oleg Gordievsky risked everything and left everyone he loved in order to save his life…and 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.

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Production & Filming Details

• Narrator(s): Damian Lewis.
• Director(s): Gareth Lewis.
• Producer(s): Chris Fouracre, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Ian Lamarra, Gareth Lewis, Paul Sommers, Alice Ankeny, and Hannah Brown.
• Writer(s): Gareth Lewis.
• Editor(s): Ian Baigent.
• Production: A&E Networks UK, A+E Networks, and Alaska TV Productions.
• Distributor(s): History Channel.
• Release Date: 07 October 2019.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.