Moe Berg

Theres much to absorb throughout THE SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE Kempners passion for her remarkable subject is always evident. If she wants you to know a lot about Moe Berg, thats because theres a lot worth knowing. The question The Spy Behind Home Plate poses is which is more amazing: the astonishing man whose story it tells, or the brilliance of the f... ilm itself. This is one of the best films of the year and one of the great documentaries of recent years. The Spy Behind Home Plate is a triumph, a dazzling mosaic of stills and footage and talking heads who knew Moe Berg or wish they had. If there were a trophy for The Most Interesting Man in Baseball, Berg would have retired it for all time. Seeing the story played out with reams of interviews and archival footage is so much better. It makes the unbelievable believable. Its a respectable ode to Bergs unusual, remarkable life. The Spy Behind Home Plate is a documentary about Moe Berg, an enigmatic Jewish catcher during baseballs Golden Age who joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to spy for the U.S. on the Nazis atomic bomb program.Read More