Director: Greg Barker
Three intelligence services, one target: Ghosts of Beirut rebuilds a two-decade manhunt as a fractured, multi-angle thriller rather than a straightforward chase.
What is Ghosts Of Beirut about?
Spanning the 1980s through the mid-2000s, the series follows agents inside the CIA and Mossad as they try to track a shadowy Lebanese operative who keeps slipping past surveillance, informants, and entire agencies built to catch him. Rather than sticking to one hero, the show splits its attention across American, Israeli, and Lebanese vantage points, letting each side's version of events sit uneasily next to the others. Field officers age out, careers end, and new recruits inherit case files that never quite close. The tone stays procedural and grounded, favoring tradecraft, bureaucratic friction, and the slow accumulation of intelligence over shootouts, and it treats the wider conflict as a backdrop for the personal toll on the people doing the watching and waiting.
Cast & crew
Amir Khoury anchors much of the Lebanese-side material, while Dina Shihabi and Hiba Bennani carry key threads on the Israeli and Arab-perspective storylines respectively. Ned Bellamy appears among the American case officers. The ensemble is arranged less around a single star turn than around rotating points of view, which suits a story that keeps deliberately shifting whose intelligence you're meant to trust.
Context & significance
Director Greg Barker built his career on documentary work about intelligence and war reporting before moving into scripted television, and that background shows in how the series handles pacing: information arrives in fragments, sources contradict each other, and certainty is rare. The production draws on real reporting about one of the more consequential manhunts of the post-Cold War era, filtered through a docudrama lens rather than an action-thriller one.
Where & how to watch
Ghosts of Beirut streams on K-Time with a Farsi-dubbed track and Persian subtitles, and the interface itself is fully in Farsi for viewers who prefer to browse and read in their own language. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to sign in and start watching; the show's episode guide and details are viewable without logging in at all.