When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every family member refused to take them in. Documentarian Ivy Meeropol, raised to believe in her grandparents' innocence, begins investigating what actually happened, interviewing family members and friends. With declassified papers indicating Julius was participating in espionage in some capacity, Ivy tries to understand the beliefs that drove the couple.
Cast
Morton Sobell
Self
Michael Meeropol
Self
Bob Considine
Self - International News Service
Sally Kanter Bruin
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
Abe Osheroff
Self - Union Activist
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
David Greenglass
Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
Emanuel Bloch
Self - the Rosenbergs' attorney
Greg Meeropol
Self - grandson of the Rosenbergs
Robert Meeropol
Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
Miriam Moskowitz
Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
Self - Senator
Rachel Meeropol
Self - Robert's daughter
Jenny Meeropol
Self - granddaughter of the Rosenbergs
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