Storyville
Season 21 Episode 25 - Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
It was a scandal that shook the British establishment to its roots. In June 1951, the government was forced to admit that two Foreign Office diplomats had disappeared. One of them, Donald Maclean, had slipped through their fingers three days before he was due to be questioned for passing secrets to the Russians. The other, Guy Burgess, was a total surprise. He was a charming, clever Etonian, with powerful friends everywhere. And lovers too - at a time when homosexuality was illegal, Burgess made no secret of his sexual tastes. He turned out to be the most flamboyant of a ring of privileged Cambridge students who had secretly joined the Communists in the 1930s, disgusted by their own government's policy of appeasing Hitler. With the help of newly declassified documents, George Carey's film shows how the most celebrated spy ring of the 20th century grew out of the class system, sexual hypocrisy and the sheer incompetence of some people who then ran Britain.
Episodes in Season 21
Zero Days: Nuclear Cyber Sabotage
85 min
The Great Literary Scandal: The JT Leroy Story
85 min
Notes On Blindness
85 min
Life, Animated
85 min
Killing For Love
85 min
Murder in Italy
85 min
North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot
85 min
Last Days of Solitary
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 1
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 2
85 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 3
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 4
90 min
OJ: Made in America - Part 5
90 min
Tokyo Girls
85 min
Oink: Man Loves Pig
85 min
This Was My Dad: The Rise and Fall of Geoffrey Matthews
85 min
The Great European Cigarette Mystery
85 min
Accidental Anarchist: Life Without Government
85 min
Queerama
85 min
Out of Thin Air: Murder in Iceland
85 min
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
85 min
The Boy Who Changed America
85 min
The Work: Four Days to Redemption
85 min
Coming Home: Bowe Bergdahl vs the United States
85 min
Toffs, Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess
85 min
My Mother's Lost Children
85 min
Last Men in Aleppo
85 min
The Farthest: Voyager's Interstellar Journey
85 min
When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day
85 min
