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Greg R @itsgregsworld 10/03/2023 Seriously? This is a two hour documentary that could have been made in 30 minutes. Giant yawn. See more Karl B @RT39889408 09/23/2023 If you like documentaries you will love it. I knew much of this story because I grew up next door to David Sharp, the project lead, and as an adult had read his book "The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub", so it was really wonderful to see this story told on screen. The book is long, detailed, and interesting for those (like me) who like details. The movie captures the most important technical elements of the book more succinctly, but it also includes the global political context of that period, including the political and news personalities of the day, and the political distractions of Watergate that were going on at the same time. While the technical aspects of the project were adequately daunting, and the challenge of making the pretext of the covert operation plausible were on the edge of achievable, the continued approval of the project right up to the president was always at risk. We've all enjoyed fiction by Clancy and the like and known as we are reading that it is a work of art by a writer. But this documentary is a story about an event that unfolded with just as much drama, but this time in real life, and told with interviews and historical footage with people who were really there. See more Read all reviews

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