Watch The Americans

An East German soldier planted in the West German army; the Cold War as pop.

Sorkin's Bartlet administration and the walk-and-talk; the fantasy of competent government.

Gary Oldman as George Smiley hunts a mole in 1970s MI6; le Carre at his best on film.

How the Rebellion was built, without a Jedi in sight; the Star Wars series for adults.

A CIA analyst convinced a returned POW is a terrorist; Claire Danes and the first two seasons.

Gym staff find a CIA memoir on a disc and try to sell it; nobody understands anything.

A 1970s paranoid thriller inside a superhero film; the elevator fight.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a vice president surrounded by idiots; the best insults on television.