Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

2011TV Movie⏱️ 1h 0mNot Rated

DocumentaryWar

⭐ 7.7

IMDB Rating

113 votes

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...

Director

Julian Carey

Writers

N/A

Stars

Keeley Hawes, Jerry Roberts, Jack Copeland

Release Date

October 25, 2011

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

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🎭 Top Cast

Keeley Hawes

as Self - Narrator

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Jerry Roberts

as Self - Senior Cryptographer at Bletchley Park

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Jack Copeland

as Self - Author of 'Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers'

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Paul Gannon

as Self - Author of 'Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret'

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Frank Carter

as Self - Bletchley Park Advisor

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Richard Youlden

as Self - Bill Tutte's Great Nephew

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Dan Younger

as Self - Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo

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Michael Smith

as Self - Author of 'Secrets of Station X'

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Tony Sale

as Self - Co-founder of 'The National Museum of Computing'

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John Scarlett

as Self - Former Director General MI6

🎬 Technical Specs

Color

Filming Location

Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Production

BBC Wales

🏷️ Keywords

bletchley parkreenactment

🎯 Categories

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⭐ Featured Review

The men behind Colossus and the breaking of Lorenz

by cicerolounge • 2020-11-11

10/10

"A truly magnificent documentary about two unsung computer pioneers, the men who secretly built Colossus MK1/MK2 one of the earliest electronic programmable computers in history and then had to keep it secret under British intelligence. This is a fitting tribute to Tommy Flowers and Bill Tutte who should be honoured for their contribution to computing. Features interviews by family of both men and a exclusive interview with Captain Jerry Roberts a senior officer in Bletchley Park...."

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📖 Synopsis

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...