The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft

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The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft (2024)

Directed by Clayton Ashley, Simone de Rochefort

“In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game.”

Documentary · 1h 18m

In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game. The Great Game traces how both men rose to the tops of their fields following World War II, before falling out of favor with their respectives agencies — on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. For Kalugin, a growing discontent with the KGB’s treatment of Russians radicalized him against the institution. Meanwhile William Colby, an OSS operative and the CIA’s man on the ground in Vietnam, was fired by President Ford after testifying before Congress about controversial CIA programs like MKULTRA and CoIntelPro. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, both living on American soil, Colby and Kalugin played themselves in Spycraft, a multi-million dollar game that was among the most advanced of its time — and is now almost entirely forgotten.

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Cast

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Jamelle Bouie Narration
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Kirill Voloshin Oleg Kalugin (voiceover)
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Jacob Geller John Prados (voiceover)
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Kenneth Berris Self Kirk B.R. Woller Self
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Carl Colby Self
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Maya Vinokour Self
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Andrew Hammond Self Justin McElroy Self

Crew

Director
Clayton Ashley, Simone de Rochefort
Writer
Clayton Ashley, Simone de Rochefort
Editor
Clayton Ashley
Producer
Simone de Rochefort

Details

Release date
2024-10-10
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Production
Polygon