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- StarsMahmoud Abdel AzizMohamed WafikTahani RashedTelling the story of the famous Egyptian spy Raafat al Haggan trained and sent from egypt to infiltrate israeli society as a jew before the October war between Egypt and israel.
- DirectorKamal El-ShaikhStarsMahmoud YassineMadiha KamelGamil Ratib"Climbing to the Bottom" was based on the true story of a spy named Heba Selim who worked for the Mossad along with her fiance where both of them provided the Israelis with Egypt's military secrets in the post-1967 war era. Saleh Morsi's adaptation of the real events was superb as viewers were able to understand the motives for the ambitious Abla Kamel to commit treason against her country in order to seek a better life in France. One of the most powerful lines in the film was mentioned by the Intelligence Officer (played by actor Mahmoud Yassine) who shows Abla - after her arrest at a Tunisian airport - an aerial view of the Pyramids and the Nile River as if he was giving her a lecture on the history of the country that she had betrayed.
- StarsFadia Abdel GhanySharif SalamahHesham SelimSamia Fahmy, whose her husband Nabil travels abroad and the Israeli Mossad attracts him to work with them as a spy after the 1967 Arab Israeli War. He tries to push his fiancée Samia to do the same, but she refuses and prefers patriotism and affiliation over passion and cooperates with Egyptian intelligence to trap Nabil and the spy network he works with.
- CreatorAlex GansaHoward GordonStarsClaire DanesMandy PatinkinDamian LewisA bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
- StarsAdam CurtisRobert ReichAnn BernaysA documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
- DirectorRoger StahlStarsOliver StoneMatthew AlfordRobin AndersenIf you've seen Top Gun or Transformers, you might suspect all that military machinery comes with strings attached. This influence is not limited to a handful of movies, though. A vast new trove of internal documents reveals that the Pentagon and CIA have doctored thousands of film and television scripts. Parting the curtains on this world, media professor Roger Stahl engages an array of other stunned scholars, frustrated veterans, PR insiders, and industry producers. Stahl reveals in unsettling detail how the US military-industrial complex pushes a version of history that scrubs the screen of war crimes, corruption, criticism of the nuclear arsenal, racism, sexual assault, assassinations, and torture. From James Bond to Jack Ryan, Captain Marvel to Cake Boss, the creation of this other "cinematic universe" is one of the great PR coups of our time.
- DirectorErin AxelmanSam EilertsenStarsPeter BeinartJeremy Ben-AmiNoam ChomskyWhen two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
- DirectorOlly LambertFilmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine's southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. How are they winning the fight?
- DirectorCaolan RobertsonStarsPaul ConroyJohn SweeneyZarina ZabriskyVeteran war reporter John Sweeney and Byline TV filmmaker Caolan Robertson hit the road with war photographer Paul Conroy and journalist Zarina Zabrisky to gather compelling evidence for the use of illegal weapons and the torture of civilians in Ukraine, as well as examining the reality of life and conditions faced by ordinary people on Ukraine's eastern front.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsHyeonseo LeeSung-eun KimSo-yeon LeeThe story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
- DirectorMads BrüggerStarsUlrich Løvenskjold LarsenMads BrüggerAlejandro Cao de Benos de Les y PérezA real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
- DirectorJialing ZhangStarsZijuan ChenTutuWenzu LiTwo families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.
- StarsBob HamerInside North Korea's Dynasty is the ultimate story of a family's power, and the relationship among a father, son and grandson. The series provides the most complex and comprehensive look at the Kim dynasty that has ever been attempted, revealing the workings behind the formidable family dynamics at the heart of an extraordinary country.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- CreatorWill TracyStarsKate WinsletMatthias SchoenaertsGuillaume GallienneKate Winslet stars in this limited series as the Chancellor of an unnamed Central European nation that is unraveling behind the palace walls.
- StarsAshley ZukermanEddie IzzardValorie CurryBased on the 2009 Dan Brown novel of the same name, The Lost Symbol is the story of a young Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman) being tasked by the CIA to solve a number of puzzles when his mentor (Eddie Izzard) is taken.
- CreatorRobert LevineJonathan E. SteinbergStarsJeff BridgesJohn LithgowAlia ShawkatA retired CIA agent is hunted by both the agency he once worked for and his own nightmares, when an unknown man suddenly visits him after nearly three decades.
- StarsGary OldmanJack LowdenKristin Scott ThomasFollows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.
- DirectorJames WatkinsStarsIdris ElbaRichard MaddenCharlotte Le BonA young pickpocket and an unruly CIA agent team up on an anti-terrorist mission in France.
- StarsSa'eed SalehEssad YounissHanan TurkA married couple are recruited as spies by the Israelis in the post 1967 war. Based on a true story.
- DirectorChristian NybyHoward HawksStarsKenneth TobeyMargaret SheridanJames ArnessScientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
- DirectorAriel VromenStarsKevin CostnerRyan ReynoldsGal GadotA dangerous convict receives an implant containing the memories and skills of a dead CIA agent.
- DirectorDavid WilkinsonStarsJulian GloverEileen AtkinsAlbert Speer99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
- DirectorTrish AdlesicStarsAnthony FienbergMichele RosenthalDiane RosenthalThis documentary looks at one of the deadliest anti-Semitic attacks in American history at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA.