Commentary
PG | 1h 8m | Documentary | 2020 “The Man Who Knew Too Much: Spies, Fake News, and Disinformation.” (NTD)
An insightful documentary about the cloak and dagger world of intelligence agencies.
There aren’t a lot of documentaries out there that reveal the inner workings of British intelligence operations in Northern Ireland during the Cold War. Directed by Michael Oswald, the 2020 film “The Man Who Knew Too Much: Spies, Fake News, and Disinformation” changes that trend with an excellent expose of that murky world through one particular British spy’s life—a man named Colin Wallace.
The documentary begins in Northern Ireland, where long-running tensions had risen to a boiling point in 1969. Rampant violence broke out between Protestants loyal to the British Crown, and Catholics, as well as communists linked to the paramilitary organization known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA)….