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Season 1 – Putin: A Russian Spy Story

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Putin: A Russian Spy Story — Season 1

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Putin: A Russian Spy Story illuminates the dark corners of the Kremlin's past to bone-chilling effect, painting a compelling - and terrifying - portrait of the lengths some leaders take to amass and maintain power.

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Ben Dowell The Times (UK) 04/07/2020
4/5
The third and final part of Putin: A Russian Spy Story was forensic and sparing with simply presented facts from authoritative talking heads doing all the heavy lifting. Go to Full Review Suzi Feay Financial Times 03/31/2020
4/5
The most poignant moment concerns presidential election night where a documentary team filming the celebrations in the Yeltsin household witnessed a snub comparable to Prince Hal's to the elderly Falstaff. Go to Full Review Tim Dowling Guardian 03/31/2020
5/5
The most chilling voice to grace this documentary is Putin's own: prosaic, earnest, flatly recounting his story in his peculiar, dull-but-still-untrustworthy manner. Go to Full Review Graeme Tuckett The Post NZ 09/14/2020
It's a story no fiction writer would bother peddling to any publisher, but it's all true. This is a compelling and frightening yarn. Go to Full Review John Boland Sunday Independent (Ireland) 04/13/2020
The three-part Putin: A Russian Spy Story ended as arrestingly, and chillingly, as it had begun. Go to Full Review David Butcher Radio Times 03/31/2020
At every stage there's no shortage of stills and video footage, always with Putin somewhere in the background, with thinning hair and that bored, unsmiling gaze. It's mesmerising. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Biography, Documentary