Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
MovieTitle | Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Oct 25, 2011 |
Genre | Documentary, War |
Director | Julian Carey |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | BBC Cymru Wales |
Run time | 60 min. |
This is a documentary about unsung heroes of World War II. In 1943, a 24-year-old maths student and a GPO engineer combined to hack into Hitler's personal super-code machine - not Enigma but an even tougher system, which he called his 'secrets writer'. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk, powered the D-day landings and orchestrated the end of the conflict in Europe. But it was also to be used during the Cold War - which meant both men's achievements were hushed up and never officially recognized.