Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

6.3
2024

Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

Production

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Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2024

A dangerous game is played in the 80s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink.

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1. Paranoia

6.5

Two spies turn double agents at the height of the Cold War standoff between East and West. Their deception happens as the superpowers edge towards nuclear war.

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2. Traitors

6.5

Spies work behind the scenes as the superpowers enter a new era. Intelligence pushes world leaders towards a more peaceful approach. But a new danger is lurking in the shadows.

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3. Operation Pimlico

6.5

Battles between Cold War spies lead to danger, betrayal and a dramatic escape, all threatening to derail the fragile move towards world peace.

Cast

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Saskia Reeves

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Martin Munro

Oleg Gordievsky

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Jacques Theron

Aldrich Ames

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Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

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