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The Cambridge Five
Series: Secrets of War
A 60-minute history episode from Secrets of War, Season 1, Episode 50.
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Synopsis
A look at the Cambridge Five, five young students who committed themselves to socialist world revolution in the early 1930s. Included: double agents Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross worked for the British government while supplying the Soviets with vital information about such things as German weapons and the nuclear bomb program known as the Manhattan Project. Narrator: Charlton Heston.
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Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 49 hours 49 minutes (50 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Epic Binge - A massive saga. Set aside dedicated weekends for this run.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 50 days
3 episodes/day: 17 days
5 episodes/day: 10 days
Episodes (50)
- - Brezhnev's Kremlin
- S01E01 - German Intelligence in World War II
- S01E10 - Rommel's Enigma
- S01E11 - Secret Weapons of the Third Reich
- S01E12 - D-Day Deceptions
- S01E13 - The French Resistance
- S01E14 - The Invasion of Panama
- S01E15 - The Gulf War: Steel Rain
- S01E16 - The Gulf War: Secrets of the Sand
- S01E17 - Spies in the Sky: Secrets of Aerial Reconnaissance
- S01E18 - Korea - Behind the Bamboo Curtain
- S01E19 - Cold War: The Strangelove Factor
- S01E02 - The Ultra Enigma
- S01E20 - Korea - Stalin's Secret Air War
- S01E21 - Vietnam: Alpha Strike
- S01E22 - Vietnam: Hidden in Plain Sight
- S01E23 - World War I: Germany's Secret Gambles
- S01E24 - Super Guns
- S01E25 - Vietnam: Special Operations
- S01E26 - Shadow of the Six-Day War
- S01E27 - Stalin's Spies
- S01E28 - The OSS
- S01E29 - Breaking the Japanese Code
- S01E03 - Women Spies in World War II
- S01E30 - Bio-Chemical Weapons
- S01E31 - The Holocaust Secret
- S01E32 - Hitler's Secrets
- S01E33 - The Hunt For Atomic Secrets
- S01E34 - Roosevelt's Spymasters
- S01E35 - Japan - The Invasion That Never Was
- S01E39 - The British Secret Intelligence Service
- S01E04 - Weapons of the Shadow War
- S01E40 - The Wizard War
- S01E42 - Spy Planes
- S01E44 - Churchill's Gambles
- S01E45 - Nazi Propaganda
- S01E05 - Nazi Gold
- S01E50 - The Cambridge Five Viewing
- S01E52 - Secret Submarines Of World War II
- S01E53 - Hirohito's War
- S01E54 - Vietnam - Johnson's Battleground
- S01E55 - Hitler's Last Days
- S01E06 - Battle of the Atlantic
- S01E60 - The Gulf War - Architects Of Desert Storm
- S01E62 - Mussolini's Henchmen
- S01E63 - Ho Chi Minh's Revolution
- S01E65 - The Gulf War - Iraq's Secrets
- S01E07 - Sitzkrieg: The Phoney War
- S01E08 - Battle of Britain
- S01E09 - Tools of Deception
