If you want to know the best spy movies you need to ask the pros. SPYSCAPE went straight to the top, asking 25 SPYEX experts - all trained by the CIA, FBI, KGB, Mossad & more - to recommend Cold War movies you can stream over the holidays. You won’t believe what we uncovered!
In the darkest days of the Cold War, nuclear ice fortresses were built underground, armed Russian boats flew across water, and the US almost went to war with North Korea over a tree. SPYSCAPE has dug up 10 of the most bizarre, believe-it-or-not spy stories from a deadly era that began almost 75 years ago.
Shadow Lines is an elegant Cold War series that follows a Finnish intelligence team desperate to defend Helsinki’s independence while the CIA and KGB meddle in the presidential race. While the voluptuous drama is an intriguing tale, the real-life drama unfolding in the run-up to the 1956 election is even more thrilling.
Colonel Vadim Fedorovich Goncharov oversaw the KGB’s Fifth Special Department during the Cold War. He was Moscow’s ‘Q’, the officer supplying cutting-edge gear from bugs to miniature ring cameras for kompromat. SPYSCAPE shares some of the rarest Soviet gadgets of the era, soon to be on display at our New York City HQ.
Cold War cat-and-mouse spy games have inspired authors from Alex Gerlis to Lauren Wilkinson, Robert Littell, Antony Johnston, and Joachim Rudolph. If you’re a fan of John le Carré and Graham Greene, you’ll love SPYSCAPE’s Top 20 must-read and off-beat Cold War book picks for the holidays.
In divided 1980s Germany, spying was a way of life. Dave Butler knows first hand. He was on the frontline as part of a British military unit with an unofficial sideline running espionage missions deep inside communist territory. They didn't always go to plan. He tells Vanessa Kirby his story of danger and disaster behind enemy lines.
007 x SPYSCAPE will be closing at the end of 2021 so don't miss your last chance to visit the iconic Bond experience. Go behind the scenes and explore Q’s Lab and see Bond’s actual Aston Martin DB5.
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