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The Jack King Affair

The Jack King Affair

2015 · 52 min · ★ 5.7 · Documentary, History, TV Movie

England, 1940, during World War II. An MI5 officer, codenamed Jack King, infiltrates a network of conspirators, a British fifth column sympathetic to Nazi Germany, in order to control the organization and destroy it in the event of a German invasion. But who was he? A single person or several?

Directed by Benjamin Cohen · Written by Benjamin Cohen

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