
2025
Based on testimony by Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, the Rosenbergs are arrested by the FBI. The couple is accused of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the USSR. Though the Rosenbergs maintain their innocence from the start, the media and public opinion seem to have condemned them from day one. The trial does nothing to change this and ends in a death sentence. On Friday June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair. Julius first, then Ethel. 30 years later, the truth finally comes out. Declassified FBI archives reveal that Ethel was not guilty of being a spy; she was merely married to one. Julius did indeed commit espionage for the Soviet Union, though primarily as a recruiter, nothing at all like the fictional James Bond. This documentary, made entirely of archival footage and animated illustrations, offers a tale of espionage as well as a complex family tragedy.

Ethel Rosenberg
Self (archive footage)

Julius Rosenberg
Self (archive footage)

Jacob's Trouble

8000 Stolen Futures: The Children at the Center of the A-Bomb

Die Nuklearfalle - Putins Deals mit dem Westen

Mururoa 1973

Bluebeard

Hiroshima Revealed

The White Rose

Die Liebe des Hans Albers

Akiko's Piano: Chords Played by the Surviving Piano

Ae Watan Mere Watan

Monument to the Murderers

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

Hitler's Hollywood

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

Harbin

Oppenheimer After Trinity

An Execution by Hanging

The Thin Blue Line

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