![]() The film shows how from D-Day to the atomic bomb, they kept their masters in Moscow informed. Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt were born to privilege, recruited as sleeper spies for Moscow at Cambridge University in the 1930s, and then insinuated themselves into almost every arm of the British secret state where they were able, without suspicion, to leak secrets to Soviet Russia on an industrial scale - their old school ties effectively blinding the British and US establishments to the traitors in their midst. From Cold War Washington to contemporary Moscow, Beirut backstreets to the salons of Buckingham Palace, the story is as gripping as any thriller. The real story behind the hit drama series A Spy Among Friends starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce - this stand-alone documentary on Kim Philby and his fellow traitors who met at Cambridge reveals the worst spy ring in British history. The real story behind the hit drama series A Spy Among Friends starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce - this is a stand-alone documentary on Kim Philby and his fellow traitors. The Real Spies Among Friends 8:30PM Documentary PG And they became the weeks that hundreds of millions remembered all their lives - weeks of suffering, weeks of comradeship, weeks of making do, weeks of fear, of love and loss - weeks of war. The weeks of war became weeks of reconstruction, they became weeks of cold war, and weeks of fighting to end colonial rule. We end in the week that the Nuremberg trials begin. In this episode we see the events that occurred during the weeks of the Yalta Conference, the assault on Okinawa, the fall of Berlin, and the destruction seen after the dropping of the first two atomic weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But on the Eastern Front, in the Pacific, and even in Western Europe many challenges still lay ahead. Within Nazi Germany, Allied victory was all but assured. ![]() ![]() The once formidable Nazi War Machine lay in ruins. Within Nazi Germany, Allied victory was all but assured.īy January 1945, the end of the war finally seemed in sight. By January 1945, the end of the war finally seemed in sight. ![]()
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