American Spy

It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club; she's overlooked for every high profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she's given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes ... Brilliantly explores the complexity of black American identity and the effects of CIA policy on Africa.