November 4, 1979. As the US Embassy in post-

revolution Tehran falls to a mob of Ayatollah-

supporting students, six officers slip out and seek

sanctuary with the Canadians. How to extract

them from the country before discovery by the

Revolutionary Guards? Create a fake movie, called

Argo, and pretend they’re the crew.

An old-school espionage thriller with a movie-

biz comedy twist, all the better for being (almost)

entirely true.