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.
Morton Sobell
as Self
Michael Meeropol
as Self
Bob Considine
as Self - International News Service
Sally Kanter Bruin
as Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
Abe Osheroff
as Self - Union Activist
J. Edgar Hoover
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self - Vice President (archive footage)
David Greenglass
as Self - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
Emanuel Bloch
as Self - the Rosenbergs' attorney
Greg Meeropol
as Self - grandson of the Rosenbergs
Robert Meeropol
as Self - younger son of the Rosenbergs
Miriam Moskowitz
as Self - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
