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Spy Web

Season 1
Spy Web analyzes the changing and growing role of intelligence operations in the 20th century.
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  1. S1 E1 - Japanese Intelligence
    September 21, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    Japanese fascination with the West culminated at the turn of the century with the foundation of an elaborate espionage network based on the need for military intelligence.
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  2. S1 E2 - French Intelligence
    October 21, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    The French had a sophisticated intelligence network, which was actively useful during WWI and went on to confront the Bolsheviks during the inter-war years.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Cambridge Spies
    December 9, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    One of the former Soviet Union's greatest espionage operations ended when two young Englishmen fled from Southampton Dock on March 25, 1951.
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  4. S1 E4 - Mi-5
    June 8, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    During both World Wars, Britain's counter-espionage service proved highly effective--no enemy spies operated for more than a few days.
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  5. S1 E5 - Spy Ships And Submarines
    June 15, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    A look at the role intelligence-collection ships played in all the major conflicts in the 20th century.
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  6. S1 E6 - Early Russian Intelligence
    June 22, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    A frightening review of the infamous Russian Bolshevik organization that took control as Lenin's feared secret police.
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  7. S1 E7 - Bletchley Park
    July 6, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    An unprepossessing Victorian mansion 50 miles north of London, Bletchley Park became Station X before World War II.
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  8. S1 E8 - Atom Spies
    July 13, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    In WWII, U.S. technical and economic superiority allowed the West to stay ahead of the Soviet Union in the race for the atomic bomb.
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  9. S1 E9 - The Code Breakers
    July 27, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    The fascinating story of 20th-century efforts to break down enemy signal security, to protect the sender's signals, and penetrate enemy secret communications.
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  10. S1 E10 - The KGB
    October 7, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    In a series focusing on 20th-century espionage, we focus on the Komitet Gosudarstvennoe Bezopasnosti.
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  11. S1 E11 - Gru
    August 31, 2000
    45min
    TV-PG
    Referred to as the GRU, the Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie was created in 1918 and served as the Soviet Union's chief military intelligence group.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Jonathan Martin
Producers
Philip NugusJoseph La Polla
Cast
Stan Watt
Studio
A+E Networks
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