Storyville
Season 17 Episode 22 - The Spy Who Went into the Cold: Kim Philby, Soviet Super Spy
Documentary exploring the murky circumstances behind the escape of one of Britain's most notorious spies. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, a well-educated Englishman called Kim Philby boarded a Russian freighter in Beirut and defected to Moscow from under the nose of British Intelligence. For the best part of thirty years he had been spying for the Soviet Union, much of that time while holding senior jobs in MI6. Fifty years on, more questions than answers still surround his defection. Had he really confessed before he went? Was his escape from justice an embarrassing mistake or part of the plan? This film, shot in Beirut, London and Moscow, sets out to find the answers, revealing the blind spots in the British ruling class that made it so vulnerable to KGB penetration.
Episodes in Season 17
The House I Live In
85 min
Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song
85 min
Queen of Versailles
85 min
Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance
85 min
Expedition to the End of the World
85 min
Google and the World Brain
85 min
The Pirate Bay
85 min
How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion
85 min
I Will Be Murdered
85 min
Surviving the Tsunami: My Atomic Aunt
85 min
The Road, a Story of Life and Death
85 min
Buck: The Real Horse Whisperer
85 min
Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa
85 min
The Law in These Parts
85 min
Power, Money, Greed & Oil
85 min
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
85 min
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
85 min
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
85 min
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
85 min
The Disappeared
85 min
Hotel Folly - Folie a Deux
85 min
The Spy Who Went into the Cold: Kim Philby, Soviet Super Spy
85 min
Blackfish - The Whale that Killed
85 min
Fame in China
85 min
