Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent

Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent
by Mick Jackson

Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $7.49
You Save: $7.49 (50%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: DVD
See more DVD details


(Click here)
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD details

Actor: Ed Lauter, Edwin M. Adams, Josef Sommer, Oleg Rudnik, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Mick Jackson
Brand: JONES,TOMMY LEE
Cinematographer: David Feig
Editor: Jim Latham
Producer: David Elstein
Producer: David Streit
Producer: Graham Massey
Producer: Liz Small
Writer: Stephen Davis
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate

DVD Reviews of Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent

DVD Review: Not what I expected
Summary: 3 Stars

This wasn't what I was expecting. It was interesting, but slow. I was thinking it was going to be a thriller, but it was nothing more than a historical account of Yuri Nosenko's connection or non-connection with the JFK assassination.

DVD Review: Chilling account
Summary: 5 Stars

Largely reflecting the pro-Angelton view of Edward Jay Epstein ("Legend"), who was a consultant on the film, it is as accurate as one can hope to get on the Nosenko mystery. The recent film Good Shepard, which includes some of the same characters in composite, is laughable by comparison as history.

DVD Review: Excellent Companion Piece
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an excellent companion piece for the movie The Good Sheperd and also for The Company with Alfred Molina and Michael Keaton. It it dead on about the Angleton mole hunt and the CIA and how it crippled this countries intelligence agencies.

Great stuff!

DVD Review: Interesting, accurate look at a real world spy case
Summary: 4 Stars

Tommy Lee Jones plays Steve Daley, a CIA officer tasked in the early 1960s with handling Yuri Nosenko, a supposed KGB defector with important information on Lee Harvey Oswald. "Steve Daley" is a pseudonym for "Pete" Bagley who recently wrote the book "Spy Wars" about the controversial Nosenko case. The movie gives an accurate picture of a very complex affair that was never completely resolved to everyone's satisfaction. This movie is the antithesis of a James Bond film of gun battles and car chases; instead, the battles are those of brains and will. The movie seems to largely reflect the opinions of Bagley/Daley, who ultimately concluded that Nosenko was a false defector intended to mislead the CIA about possible Soviet penetration.

DVD Review: Docudrama based on real events in the CIA/KGB war
Summary: 5 Stars

Based largely on declassified transcripts, this is a very well-done reconstruction of the events surrounding a major scandal that ripped apart the CIA in the 1960s and 1970s. James Angleton was then chief of counter-intelligence, and after his close friend Kim Philby defected to the Soviet Union, Angleton grew increasingly obsessed with finding other Soviet moles in the highest ranks of U.S. intelligence. One defector (Golitsyn) played into the fears of the hawks by emphasizing the seriousness of the Soviet threat; another defector (Nosenko) insisted there was no serious threat. Following closely on the heals of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kennedy assassination, the choice on whom to believe carried serious implications for U.S. security. In an unsuccessful effort to break Nosenko, Angleton and his staff put Nosenko into solitary confinement for almost three years--and though major inconsistencies were uncovered in Nosenko's story, he was never broken. In the course of the investigation, Angleton's drive to uncover the Soviet mole(s) in the CIA ruined the careers of more than forty people; the scandal that followed led to Angleton's dismissal, and the CIA's inclination to wash its hands of HUMINT (human intelligence sources) in favor of SIGINT (technology-driven intelligence). This opened the way for later Soviet infiltrations (Walker, Ames, Hansen), but also set an unfortunate precedent--the CIA's distrust of HUMINT--that seriously undermined U.S. security in the post-Cold War era.
For more details, see the CIA's dlecassifed version: http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclass/Cram.html

Description of Yuri Nosenko: Double Agent

No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 20-JAN-2004
Media Type: DVD

Espionage DVDs

DVD Video
Bestsellers in Espionage DVDs
G-Force (Three-Disc DVD/Blu-ray Combo +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] ImageG-Force (Three-Disc DVD/ Blu-ray Combo +Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
Release date: 2009-12-15; DVD
Best price: $27.99
Price in other shops: $44.99
Mission: Impossible - The Final TV Season ImageMission: Impossible - The Final TV Season
Mission; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $28.99
Price in other shops: $49.99
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Two-Disc Edition) ImageG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Two-Disc Edition)
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $15.80
Price in other shops: $34.98
North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition) ImageNorth by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $11.90
Price in other shops: $24.82
24: Redemption Image24: Redemption
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-11-25; DVD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops: $19.98
Ronin [Blu-ray] ImageRonin [Blu-ray]
Ronin; Release date: 2009-02-24; DVD
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops: $34.98
Quantum of Solace ImageQuantum of Solace
MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX); Release date: 2009-03-24; DVD
Best price: $8.09
Price in other shops: $29.99
North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray] ImageNorth by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops: $34.99
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Two-Disc Edition + Digital Copy)  [Blu-ray] ImageG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Two-Disc Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2009-11-03; DVD
Best price: $18.80
Price in other shops: $39.99
Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] ImageQuantum of Solace [Blu-ray]
MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX); Release date: 2009-03-24; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops: $39.99
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
Pack of Lies ImagePack of Lies
ECHO BRIDGE HOME ENT.; Release date: 2006-05-16; DVD
Best price: $3.29
Price in other shops: $6.99
A Family of Spies ; Complete 3 Hour Mini Series , Starring Powers Boothe ImageA Family of Spies ; Complete 3 Hour Mini Series , Starring Powers Boothe
DVD
Best price: $115.00
The Counterfeit Traitor ImageThe Counterfeit Traitor
Paramount; Release date: 2004-07-13; DVD
Best price: $8.09
Price in other shops: $14.98
Cambridge Spies ImageCambridge Spies
WARNER HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2003-12-02; DVD
Best price: $13.49
Price in other shops: $24.98
The Rhinemann Exchange ImageThe Rhinemann Exchange
Universal Studios; Release date: 2007-07-31; DVD
Best price: $8.19
Price in other shops: $19.98
Enigma ImageEnigma
Trinity; Release date: 2006-01-17; DVD
Best price: $4.25
Price in other shops: $9.99
The Company ImageThe Company
Sony; Release date: 2007-10-23; DVD
Best price: $21.94
Price in other shops: $39.95
Broken Vows ImageBroken Vows
Release date: 2005-02-08; DVD
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: $6.99
Night Flight from Moscow ImageNight Flight from Moscow
PATHFINDER HOME ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 2003-06-17; DVD
Best price: $8.51
Price in other shops: $14.98
The Impossible Spy ImageThe Impossible Spy
Release date: 2007-03-31; DVD
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops: $24.95
Compare prices and read customer reviews for more than one million DVD titles.
Oscar 2005 Winners