Heir To An Execution

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.

• Ivy MeeropolDirector

• Morton SobellSelf
• Michael MeeropolSelf
• Bob ConsidineSelf - International News Service
• Sally Kanter BruinSelf - friend of Ethel Rosenberg
• Abe OsheroffSelf - Union Activist
• J. Edgar HooverSelf (archive footage)
• Richard NixonSelf - Vice President (archive footage)
• David GreenglassSelf - Ethel Rosenberg's brother
• Emanuel BlochSelf - the Rosenbergs' attorney
• Greg MeeropolSelf - grandson of the Rosenbergs
• Robert MeeropolSelf - younger son of the Rosenbergs
• Miriam MoskowitzSelf - friend of Ethel Rosenberg