Name: Spinning Webs
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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The Allies are winning the war, but both sides continue to use masterful deceptions to confuse and trick the other; the immediate postwar years see the US and Soviet Union begin a deadly game of espionage in the race for atomic supremacy.

Deception: World War II

The Final Days of the War

Radios and transmitters spread false information, and a ghost army uses sound effects to deceive enemy forces; the Allies deploy one of the most famous double agents of the war.

The Fog of War

By 1942, deception has become extremely sophisticated; American arms factories are disguised as towns while double agents manipulate the enemy; the most cunning operation uses a deceased homeless man to trick the entire Nazi leadership.

Spinning Webs

The early years of the war see deception in its infancy: code breaking, glamorous spies, fake bombing sites, and even inflatable tanks; World War II begins with a deadly deception inside a Polish radio station.

The Inception of Deception

An exploration of how subterfuge and covert operations were used during the Second World War, including the propaganda campaigns, acts of espionage, and the creation of fictional armies.

S1 E2 | Spinning Webs

E4 | The Final Days of the War

E3 | The Fog of War

E2 | Spinning Webs

E1 | The Inception of Deception