The following movies are either based on actual events or are realistic enough to be helpful in (counter)espionage training. Of course they also cover such topics as social engineering, politics and other criminal activites.

Please let me know if you are aware of other videos that should be included in this list, but don't bother me with stuff like Mission Impossible or Men in Black.

Adventures of Casanova (Galvadon)
A Family of Spies (Gyllenhaal), DVD available
Against the Wind (Crichton), DVD available
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (MacKenzie), DVD available
American Justice: Spies: Betraying A Nation (A&E)

Background to Danger (Walsh)
Beasts of Berlin (Scott)
Behind the Iron Curtain (Wellman)
Betrayal from the East (Berke)
Blind Man's Bluff (History Channel), DVD available
Blunt: The Fourth Man (Glenister), DVD available
Bravo Two Zero (Clegg), DVD available
Breach (Ray), DVD available

Canaris (Weldenmann)
Cardinal Richelieu (Lee)
Carve Her Name with Pride (Gilbert), DVD available
CIA Secrets (Discovery Channel), DVD available
CIA - The Shocking Stories Behind the Headlines (BBC), DVD available
Cloak and Dagger (Lang), DVD available
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (Litvak)

Dead Men's Secrets: Stalin's Spy Ring (History Channel), DVD available
Decision Before Dawn (Litvak)
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (Gibson), DVD available

Echelon: The Most Secret Spy System (History Channel), DVD available

Fair Game (Liman), DVD available
Five Fingers (Maniewicz)
Francis Gary Powers - The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (Mann)

Hangmen Also Die (Lang), DVD available
Heavy Metal: Blackbird Stealth! (History Channel), DVD available
History's Mysteries: Spies of the Revolutionary War (History Channel), DVD available
History Undercover: David Greenglass: Twice A Traitor (History Channel)
History Undercover: The Too Perfect Spy (History Channel)
Hitler's Children (Dmytryk)

I Accuse (Ferrer)
I was an American Spy (Selander)
In Search of History: Spies among Us (History Channel)
Inside the CIA (History Channel), DVD available
Investigative Reports: The Spy Next Door: Robert Hanssen (A&E)

Jean Moulin - A Hero's Destiny, DVD available

Master Spy - The Robert Hanssen Story (Schiller), DVD available
Mata Hari (Fitzmaurice), DVD available
Mata Hari: The Seductive Spy (Biography), DVD available
Modern Marvels: Surveillance Tech (History Channel), DVD available
Munich (Spielberg), DVD available

Nazi Spies in America (History Channel), DVD available

Odette (Wilcox)
Operation Manhunt (Alexander), DVD available
OSS (Pichel)

Rendezvous (Howard)
Ring of Spies, aka Ring of Treason (Tronson)

Science of Spying, 1965 (National Archives and Records Administration), DVD available
Secret Superpower Aircraft: Spy Planes (History Channel), DVD available
September Tapes (Johnston), DVD available
Sneakers (Robinson), DVD available
Speaking Freely: Vol. 3: Ray McGovern (Diaz), DVD available
Spies: Risk, Danger and Double Lives (History Channel), DVD available
Spy Game (Scott), DVD available
Spying Game (Bates), DVD available
Suspects and Witnesses: Interviews and Interrogations (National Archives and Records Administration), DVD available

Tactical To Practical: Episode 28 (History Channel)
The Assassination of Trotsky (Losey), DVD available
The Carpetbagger Project - Secret Heroes (Swearngin), DVD available
The Conversation (Coppola), DVD available
The Counterfeit Traitor (Seaton), DVD available
The Dark Art of Interrogation (History Channel), DVD available
The Dreyfus Case (Kraemer)
The Falcon and the Snowman (Schlesinger), DVD available
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Morris), DVD available
The Good Shepherd (De Niro), DVD available
The Heroes of Telemark (Mann)
The Impossible Spy (Goddard), DVD available
The KGB Connections (Singular Films), DVD available
The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle), DVD available
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (Colby), DVD available
The Man Who Never Was (Neame), DVD available
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Ehrlich, Goldsmith), DVD available
The Recruit (Donaldson), DVD available
The Spy Factory (Nova/PBS Home Video), DVD available
The True Story of Charlie Wilson (History Channel), DVD available
13 Rue Madeleine (Hathaway), DVD available
Time Machine: Traitors Within (History Channel), DVD available
20th Century with Mike Wallace: Caught in the Act (History Channel)
20th Century with Mike Wallace: Spies Among Us - Shadowy World of Espionage (History Channel), DVD available

Walk East on Beacon (Werker)
War Stories with Oliver North: Agent 146 - Spying for the Third Reich, DVD available
Winter Soldier (Vietnam Veterans Against the War), DVD available

Yuri Nosenko - Double Agent (Jackson), DVD available