The Catcher Was a Spy

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) is a World War II thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ben Lewin and starring Paul Rudd as Moe Berg — a major league catcher who held Princeton and Columbia degrees, spoke several languages, and lived a second life that his teammates never suspected.

Berg joined the Office of Strategic Services after years in professional baseball, and was sent into wartime Europe on one of the war's more improbable assignments: attend a lecture by leading German physicist Werner Heisenberg, assess how close the Reich was to a working nuclear weapon, and if the answer was alarming — act on it alone. Mark Strong, Tom Wilkinson, Sienna Miller and Hiroyuki Sanada surround Rudd in a story that moves between intelligence briefings, occupied cities and the quiet dread of a man operating without a safety net.

Lewin doesn't dress the story up. Berg's real biography is already stranger than most screenwriters would dare invent. Stream The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) online on iFILM.