Covert actions

Operations meant to stay secret, and the paperwork that surfaced anyway. Israeli security chiefs on the record, the CIA in Tehran in 1953, a worm built to wreck centrifuges, a coup broadcast live from Caracas. The interest is less in what was done than in how ordinary the people who did it sound describing it.

• One Day in September (1999) ★★★
• The Gatekeepers (2012) ★★
• Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden (2013) ★★
• Assassins (2020) ★★
• The Dissident (2020) ★★
• Dirty Wars (2013) ★
• Taxi to the Darkside (2007) ★★★
• Zero Days (2016) ★★★
• Coup 53 (2019) ★★
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003) ★★★
• Mr Nobody Against Putin (2025) ★★★