Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

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2011
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Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes (2011)

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... Read allThis 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 Batt... Read allThis 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... Read all

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Keeley Hawes

Self - Narrator
(voice)

Jerry Roberts

Self - Senior Cryptographer at Bletchley Park
(as Captain Jerry Roberts)

Jack Copeland

Self - Author of 'Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers'
(as Professor Jack Copeland)

Paul Gannon

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

Frank Carter

Self - Bletchley Park Advisor

Richard Youlden

Self - Bill Tutte's Great Nephew

Dan Younger

Self - Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
(as Professor Dan Younger)

Michael Smith

Self - Author of 'Secrets of Station X'

Tony Sale

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

John Scarlett

Self - Former Director General MI6
(as Sir John Scarlett)

Michele Mosca

Self - Dep Director Institute for Quantum Computing
(as Professor Michele Mosca)

Bill Tutte

Self
(archive footage)

Bill Cunningham

Self - Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
(as Professor Bill Cunningham)

Tommy Flowers

Self
(archive footage)

Keith Moore

Self - Head of Library and Archive, Royal Society

Kenneth Flowers

Self - Tommy Flowers' Son

Duncan Barrett

Bill Tutte
(uncredited)

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The men behind Colossus and the breaking of Lorenz

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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[voiceover introduction: showing a photograph of Bill Tutte]
Narrator: This is a British mathematician called Bill Tutte. You won't have heard of him, but in 1943 he pulled off what many believe was the greatest intellectual feat of World War Two. It shortened the war and saved millions of lives. He died in 2002 without ever being officially recognised for his achievement.
[showing a photograph of Tommy Flowers]
Narrator: This is a former GPO engineer called Tommy Flowers. In 1944, he turned Tutte's mathematical ideas into the world's first computer. He died in 1998. Chances are, you won't have heard of him, either. Backed by the brightest talents of Bletchley Park, they allowed Britain to break a top secret machine employed by Hitler to dictate the course of the war.
[showing a photograph of a coding machine]
Narrator: This machine was *not* Enigma. It was something far more secret and significant. And you *definitely* won't have heard of that. This is the story of a secret war and how two men changed the world - and then disappeared from history.

Crazy credits
When the caption identifying each interviewee was first displayed, the letters were encrypted. They then resolved themselves into the name and job title.