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Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game (2024)

6.3Documentary — War & Politics

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.

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BBC Studios / CNN Original Series / BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

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Director: Lucie Ridout

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Saskia Reeves as Self - Narrator (voice)

Saskia Reeves

Self - Narrator (voice)

Martin Munro as Oleg Gordievsky

Martin Munro

Oleg Gordievsky

Jacques Theron as Aldrich Ames

Jacques Theron

Aldrich Ames

Margaret Thatcher as Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

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