TV series
Spycraft
Overview
The spy game is a serious business, and throughout history, the tools and technologies developed for it have mattered as much as the spies themselves.
Details
- First air date
- 2021-01-20
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 8 episodes
- Genres
- Documentary, War & Politics
- Network
- Netflix
- Country
- US
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Dylan Berry as Narrator (voice)
- Keith Melton as Self - Intelligence Historian and Author
- Edward Snowden as Self
- Siti Aisyah as Self
- Doan Thi Huong as Self
- Kim Jong-nam as Self
- Kim Jong-un as Self
- Kim Jong-il as Self
- Vladimir Putin as Self
- Marina Litvinenko as Self
- Alexander Litvinenko as Self
- Fidel Castro as Self
Creators and crew
- Jan Spindler - Director
- Marek Bures - Director
- Maria Berry - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: High-Tech Surveillance and an Eye in the Sky
In the spy game, if you can listen, you can learn, and gaining that crucial ability to eavesdrop has required some deeply creative ingenuity.
Episode 2: Deadly Poisons
For some covert missions, the goal is not information, but assassination, and lethal toxins have been deployed by spy agencies to kill perceived foes.
Episode 3: Sexspionage
As long as there has been espionage, sex and the promise of it have been powerful tools of persuasion and blackmail — practices that continue today.
Episode 4: Clandestine Collection
Methods for covertly capturing sensitive data have grown infinitely more advanced as the devices used to do so have become exponentially smaller.
Episode 5: Covert Communication
From old-school "dead drops" to high-tech digital transfers: Learn how intelligence officers actually acquire the information collected by sources.
Episode 6: Special Ops and the Saboteur
Special ops require the very best people to execute them. But some of the most famous missions in modern history relied on elite technology as well.
Episode 7: The Code Breakers
Encryption is a key tool for keeping valuable information secret — but some ingenious minds have managed to crack seemingly impenetrable codes.
Episode 8: Recruiting the Perfect Spy
What leads someone to spy against their own nation? Motivations vary but tend to fall into one of four categories, as notorious cases demonstrate.
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