Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Patriot (2015)Patriot (2015) 8.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 3 Nov 2015An intelligence officer's cover at an industrial piping company requires expertise and social performance he can barely sustain. The unusual pleasure is watching an operation fail through ordinary work, awkward conversations and accumulating exhaustion. Its deadpan humour and folk songs make a…0
  2. 2Condor (2018)Condor (2018) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Jun 2018A CIA analyst discovers that his technical work belongs to a much larger operation than he understood. The familiar man-on-the-run outline becomes useful again through the gap between analytical intelligence and practical survival. The two-season series gives a less ceremonial, more physically…0
  3. 3The Assets (2014)The Assets (2014) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 2 Jan 2014Two CIA counterintelligence officers investigate the losses that will lead them towards Aldrich Ames. Jodie Whittaker and Harriet Walter make patient scrutiny and professional persistence the attraction. The eight-part dramatisation had a disrupted broadcast run, but the completed story is a strong…0
  4. 4Spy City (2020)Spy City (2020) 6.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 3 Dec 2020A British agent in 1961 Berlin tries to establish which account of a defector's death he can trust. Dominic Cooper's compact six-part story puts cover, diplomatic space and the city's approaching division at the centre. Choose it for a concentrated Cold War assignment, with a more briskly plotted…0
  5. 5Traitors (2019)Traitors (2019) 6.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Feb 2019A young British civil servant is recruited by Americans who insist that her own government needs watching. The 2019 drama makes inexperience and ideological certainty dangerous tools in the unsettled aftermath of the Second World War. It is a useful, contained six-part detour into the practical…0
  6. 6Deep State (2018)Deep State (2018) 7.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Apr 2018An operative who thought he had left the work behind is drawn into a network where security policy and commercial interest overlap. The attraction is the shifting chain of people who can authorise something while disowning its consequences. Its two-season run changes emphasis and leading cast,…0
  7. 7The Company (2007)The Company (2007) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 5 Aug 2007A group of CIA recruits move through decades of Cold War operations while friendship and professional identity become difficult to separate. This 2007 three-part miniseries offers an ensemble historical sweep rather than a single contemporary conspiracy. Its dramatised set pieces compress…0
  8. 8Ghosts of Beirut (2023)Ghosts of Beirut (2023) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 21 May 2023The hunt for Imad Mughniyeh becomes a four-part account of surveillance, accumulated leads and relationships across different intelligence services. Dramatised scenes are interrupted by documentary interviews, making its method unusually visible. It is a demanding next step for a specialist viewer,…0
  9. 9Pine Gap (2018)Pine Gap (2018) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Oct 2018Australian and American analysts share a surveillance facility while remaining answerable to governments whose interests do not perfectly align. Meetings, procedures and personal relationships keep turning cooperation into a negotiation. This six-part Australian series is a distinctive workplace…0
  10. 10The Undeclared War (2022)The Undeclared War (2022) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 30 Jun 2022A young GCHQ analyst has to turn ambiguous technical evidence into decisions with political consequences. Visualised code-solving distinguishes the series from a conventional field-agent thriller, while institutional pressure complicates every attribution. The 2026 second series continues the…0