Season 1
6 episodes · Oct 16, 2015
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- S1E1
Thomas Cromwell
Oct 16, 2015The wily characters from history who pulled strings in the shadows. Thomas Cromwell's cloak-and-dagger work helped steer Henry VIII through his troubles with Rome and several wives.
- S1E2
Sir Francis Walsingham
Oct 23, 2015History's scheming spymasters in profile. The six-part series focuses on the remarkable cunning of Francis Walsingham, whose spy network foiled many plots against Queen Elizabeth I.
- S1E3
Robert Cecil
Oct 30, 2015Robert Cecil was a formidable political operator, whose extraordinary web of informers helped to foil the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
- S1E4
Cardinal Richelieu
Nov 6, 2015Profiles of the super snoopers who blazed a trail in espionage. As Louis XIII's diabolical chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu was feared and hated thanks to his complex spy network.
- S1E5
Zofia Potocka and Mata Hari
Nov 13, 2015History's most notorious covert operatives. The astonishing tale of Zofia Potocka, the beautiful lover of Grigory Potemkin who ran a successful spy network in the Russo-Turkish War.
- S1E6
Elizabeth Van Leew
Nov 20, 2015The early innovators of intelligence. The American Civil War was notable for its female spymasters. Elizabeth van Lew's effective network even smuggled out messages in hollow eggs.