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1. Reality (I) (2023)

TV-MA | 83 min | Drama

A former American intelligence specialist was given the longest sentence for the unauthorized release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.

Director: Tina Satter | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis, Benny Elledge

Votes: 20,618

2. Casino Royale (1967)

Approved | 131 min | Comedy

In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.

Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles

Votes: 32,511

3. Thirteen Days (2000)

PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook

Votes: 62,730 | Gross: $34.59M

4. Pine Gap (2018)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in the intensely secretive world of intelligence and the enigmatic US/Australia joint defence facility in central Australia, the spy-thriller Pine Gap delves into the famously strong alliance between the two countries.

Stars: Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Toussaint, Tess Haubrich

Votes: 6,889

5. Green Zone (2010)

R | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Igal Naor

Votes: 142,742 | Gross: $35.05M

6. HyperNormalisation (2016)

166 min | Documentary

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum

Votes: 7,381

7. Get Smart, Again! (1989 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 96 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Smart is called back to duty as KAOS is back causing trouble again with a 'weather machine'.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Bernie Kopell, Dick Gautier

Votes: 1,531

8. The Chairman (1969)

M/PG | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the US government sends a scientist to China to steal the formula for a new agricultural enzyme developed by the Chinese.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie

Votes: 1,415

9. The Kay Griggs Interviews (1998)

Documentary, History, Talk-Show

Pastor Rick Strawcutter interviews Katharine Pollard Griggs, the wife of Marine Corps Colonel George Griggs, about the history of the U.S. military and the power elite.

Stars: Rick Strawcutter, Kay Griggs

Votes: 25

10. The Secret Agents (1965)

125 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.

Directors: Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Terence Young, Werner Klingler | Stars: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot

Votes: 282

11. Man on a String (1960)

Approved | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A US secret agent is sent to Berlin to pretend to be a spy for the USSR.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby

Votes: 497

12. JFK: The Final Evidence (2023)

Documentary, Action, Crime

In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.

Stars: Emma Long, David J. Hall, Chris Moran

Votes: 26

13. The Beatles and India (2021)

96 min | Documentary, Music

Documentary exploring how John, Paul, George and Ringo fell in love with Indian culture while visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his Himalayan ashram in 1968.

Directors: Ajoy Bose, Peter Compton | Stars: Shankara Angadi, Sidharth Bhatia, Steve Turner, Ajoy Bose

Votes: 502

14. Count Five and Die (1957)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, History

American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France.

Director: Victor Vicas | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Annemarie Düringer, Nigel Patrick, David Kossoff

Votes: 224

15. Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War (1987)

200 min | Drama

This is the story of feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him. From the day John Kennedy was ... See full summary »

Stars: Heather Thomas, Robert Pine, Jack Warden, Richard Anderson

Votes: 40

16. Theoretically, an even much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Challenged by phone by the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, The Boss travels to the year 2121, where the USSR won the Cold War. Caught spying, The Boss undergoes a subtle questioning technique that tortures him and his interrogator.

Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato

Votes: 6

17. Bin Laden: War on Terror (2016)

Documentary, History, War

A re-telling of the events leading up to the death of the world's most wanted man. Includes details of the bold military operation that found, hunted and killed Osama Bin Laden.

Director: Marilyn Higgins | Stars: Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, Yasser Arafat, George W. Bush

18. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

19. The President's Book of Secrets (2010 TV Movie)

Documentary

Journey inside White House history to unveil fascinating truths behind secrets known only to the President.

Stars: Jonathan Adams, Jonathan Alter, Michael Bohn, Leonid Brezhnev

Votes: 117

20. Theoretically, a much more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)

112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After Intelligence Officer One shows interest in researching how JFK was killed, the Boss keeps revealing telephone conversations with the Pro Bono Spy Hunter and his valet, having to avoid being 'replaced' by unidentified forces, later.

Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Stars: Michael Lake, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato

21. Ian Fleming, James Bond and the Public Perception of the CIA (2011 Video)

67 min | Documentary, History, Talk-Show

Christopher Moran explores the similarities between Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the real world of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Stars: Christopher Moran, Mary Louise Reker

22. Behind the Scenes: Dying of the Light (2015 Video)

14 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Nicolas Cage, Tomiwa Edun, Alexander Karim, Claudius Peters

23. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: Crisis (January 1962 - October 1962) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

After Nuclear weapons are placed 90 miles from the Florida coast in Cuba, Kennedy faces his ultimate trial, the most dangerous moment in human history.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Andrew Cohen, Richard Lipsey, J. Randy Taraborrelli

Votes: 28

24. America's Book of Secrets (2012–2021)
Episode: FBI vs. MLK (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary

In 1962, J. Edgar Hoover ordered "his bureau" to investigate Martin Luther King Jr. and soon discovered that King was associated with something he considered far more dangerous than peaceful protests: Communism.

Stars: Lance Reddick, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Keith Rice, Ben Kamin

Votes: 15

25. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #2.3 (2018)

Documentary, History, War

Crossword puzzles in a national newspaper begin to attract the attention of MI5, the answers are code words for the upcoming D-Day operation. Is this the work of a spy?

Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Andrew Robertshaw, Martin K.A. Morgan, Guy Walters, Joshua Levine

26. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

99 min | Documentary, History

A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal

Votes: 10

27. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode: The Dawn of the Cold War

56 min | Documentary, History, War

For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.

Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: François Kersaudy, Clifton Truman Daniel, Curtis Roosevelt, Yuri Borko

28. Traitor/Patriot (2022)
Episode: The Soviet General Who Switched Sides (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Arguably the greatest spy for the West during the Cold War, Dimitriy Polyakov was a Russian Military Intelligence General who turned on Russia. He was run by the CIA and FBI and betrayed by both Ames and Hanssen.

Directors: Maria Berry, Marek Bures | Stars: Eva Dillon, James M. Olson, Paul Joyal, Oleg Kalugin

29. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: The Boy Bounders or Plane Punchy/A Peek at the Peak or Your Climb is My Climb (1960)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Capt. Peter Peachfuzz attempts to rescue Rocky and Bullwinkle from the desert.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 34

30. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: You've Got a Secret or Out of Sight - Out of Mine/Boris and the Blade or Sheik, Rattle and Roll (1960)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Upsidaisium" Part 11, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Ugly Duckling", Peabody's Improbable History "Ponce De Leon", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Upsidaisium" Part 12.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 34

31. Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled (2022– )
Episode: Unrepentant: The SS and its Myth After 1945 (2022)

Documentary, History, War

Drawing a line to the present, the atrocities of the SS are beyond all doubt, yet, there is a cult surrounding 'old comrades' today.

Director: Carsten Binsack | Stars: James Milano, Peter Hammerschmidt, Benjamin Ferencz, Bastian Hein

32. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: Brothers in Arms (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

A confident, popular John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected American president, but he will have to rely on his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, to help him navigate the disasters of 1961.

Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Patrick J. Kennedy, Richard Mahoney

Votes: 56

33. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode: The Legend of Camelot (2018)

42 min | Documentary, History

Numbed by grief after the assassination of her husband, Jackie crafts JFK's legacy, while Bobby becomes a champion of the dispossessed and the family's next great political hope.

Director: Jonathan Jones | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sally Bedell Smith, Richard Mahoney, Kate Andersen Brower

Votes: 53