Red King, White Knight is a 1989 American political thriller television film directed by Geoff Murphy and written by Ron Hutchinson.

The film stars Tom Skerritt as Bill Stoner, a retired CIA operative who is sent to eastern Europe to determine the truth of a KGB plot to assassinate Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

At the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards, von Sydow was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for his role in the film.

Stoner, an ex-alcoholic with financial troubles, is not told of the assassination plot but agrees to go despite grieving the suicide of his wife there 10 years earlier.

He stays to verify the plot but his problems are then complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian he knew 10 years earlier, as he shelters with her and tries to convince her to defect.