Heir To An Execution (2004)
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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.
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Cast
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Morton Sobell
Self
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Michael Meeropol
Self
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Bob Considine
Self - International...
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Sally Kanter Bruin
Self - friend of Eth...
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Abe Osheroff
Self - Union Activis...
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footag...
Richard Nixon
Self - Vice Presiden...
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David Greenglass
Self - Ethel Rosenbe...
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Emanuel Bloch
Self - the Rosenberg...
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Greg Meeropol
Self - grandson of t...
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Robert Meeropol
Self - younger son o...
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Miriam Moskowitz
Self - friend of Eth...
Joseph McCarthy
Self - Senator
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Rachel Meeropol
Self - Robert's daug...
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Jenny Meeropol
Self - granddaughter...