1. The Man Who Saved The World
Aired: Nov 11, 2019This is the story of Oleg Gordievsky, one of the West’s most valuable Cold Wa...
This is the story of eight filmmakers sent to Tehran to scout locations for a big budget, Hollywood-produced sci-fi fantasy film as depicted in the award-winning film Argo. In January 1980, two CIA agents and six employees of the US embassy in Iran arrived at Mehrabad Airport, Tehran with fake passports, papers and scripts. This is the remarkable story of how one man used inspiration from Hollywood to school six frightened diplomats in the art of ‘being someone else’, and score a victory for ...
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: Sky History
Production Country: United Kingdom
Genres:Documentary