Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

120 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Sept. 29, 1976

The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

120 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Sept. 29, 1976

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers
Original title Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Directors Delbert Mann
Writers Robert E. Thompson

Cast

Lee Majors

as Francis Gary Powers

Noah Beery Jr.

as Oliver Powers

Nehemiah Persoff

as Rudenko

Brooke Bundy

as Barbara Powers

William Daniels

as Bissell

James Gregory

as James Donovan

Marcel Hillaire

as Charles De Gaulle

Alf Kjellin

as Ivan Vasilev

Biff McGuire

as John McCone

Jim McMullan

as Robert F. Kennedy

David Opatoshu

as Grinev

Charles Robinson

as Wheatley

Lew Ayres

as Allen Dulles

Katharine Bard

as Ida Powers

James Flavin

as President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thayer David

as Nikita Khrushchev