It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

hyped garbage

Fantastic!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Regarding Phoonominal's review of this excellent drama-documentary, he (I presume) is substantially incorrect about the role of women in SIS.In WW2, SIS recruited from all circumstances, anyone who could contribute to the cause would be eligible.Consequently there were a fair number of women in executive positions, including planning.In several cases women ran entire networks for SIS, e.g. Marie Fouchard.(The same is true of SOE, particularly in the field).So, my recommendation is to ignore Phoonominal's ill-informed guesswork and watch this terrific, well-acted and fact-based production.

The information in it is hazy at best. The whole woman giving suggestions to the officer about killing Hitler. Half of the information did not come out till AFTER the war. yet you've got them talking as if the information was on the internet. Serious misrepresentation of S.O.E's and I.S.I's. Also i am sorry but having a female officer in the " war room " telling people how to do it. i am fairly sure women IF in the room would have been typing and not shouting out opinion. Again serious misrepresentation of the REAL events.Very disappointed in everything BUT the acting which i will say was terrific. The main female lead was very good but anyone with any real knowledge about world war 2 will tell you the only reason she is in the show is because the producer or someone on the ethics board decided it best to show a strong woman. Totally ruined it as all i can see now is another female empowerment show. Please if you make another historical show. Use some facts. 3/10 over all and only getting the 3 due to the brilliant work of the two lead actor and actress

What hits you first and foremost in a documentary found on the Yesterday channel (akin to any History channel) is the style of this doc. The constant switching between dramatisation and reality is not something you see often, especially not when the dramatisation is an almost film noire type style. Add to that a somewhat fancy "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" shooting style and a full sequence of events that fools viewers into thinking they are watching something that had really happened (only to be told at the end of it that all of that never occurred) and have you have one odd documentary. It seems it is about what could have been a sensational discovery (the knowledge of these scheme was unknown until 1994!) yet does not really deliver anything sensational. Therefore it is too long and an hour on this topic would do. I enjoyed nevertheless and I think director Lovering loved directing this one too...

This is a drama-documentary, dealing with the operation that set out to form a feasible plot to kill Hitler. It features actual footage from the time, someone who was actually there and speaks about it today, narration, and lastly, a group of experts, and actors playing real people involved in the planning in portions set during the time that the ideas were being gone over, both sitting around tables and discussing if this or that way could work, and, of utmost importance, if it would hurt, or benefit, the Nazi cause to go through with the assassination. OK, the last-mentioned group are seen doing other things, as well. This is all inter-cut, and there are times where this seems like it's scared of boring you. Some of the cinematography and editing is a tad flashy. The majority of this is great, though, and it can't be denied that this is well-made, and with impressive production value. Its running time is about forty-some minutes long for both of the episodes, so almost 100 total, or not much less than two hours. The performances are solid. This is interesting and informative. I recommend this to anyone who wants to know about the historical event that, in this case, *didn't* transpire. 7/10