Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

Name: Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Director: Julian Carey
Released: 2011
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Keeley Hawes, Jerry Roberts, Jack Copeland, Paul Gannon, Frank Carter

2011 · 60 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 106 VOTES · DIR. Julian Carey

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 831 lines

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00:00:14 This is a British mathematician called Bill Tutte.

00:02:57 of the World War Two codebreaking effort incomplete.

00:05:54 the places that housed those workers are abandoned.

00:08:13 each time I press a key and that changes the internal wiring.

00:10:32 I mean, the First World War

00:12:28 If I lift up the cover and show you the interior.

00:14:57 the standard international teleprinter code

00:17:36 After winning the scholarship, Uncle Bill faced

00:20:27 but he didn't change the wheel settings

00:22:47 Then on this occasion the answer to that in fact turns out to be P.

00:24:49 it's conceivable that one of them might well be London.

00:27:22 to see if the pattern extends along that.

00:29:58 Hitler's secrets were laid bare

00:32:51 Nobody had actually seen the machine at all.

00:35:00 and rounding off his education at Dollis Hill

00:37:27 Eventually, he produces this thing and they try it out

00:40:00 the Newmanry handled two of them

00:42:13 The most important information

00:44:49 which people don't really get or understand.

00:46:49 that worked at Bletchley Park

00:49:43 While he was there, the Americans announced that they had built

00:52:27 In the course of which I was sent to Bletchley Park

00:55:04 If you cross that hurdle, Council of the Royal Society

00:57:33 Tommy's is slightly different.

Cast & Characters

Keeley Hawes Self - Narrator Jerry Roberts Self - Senior Cryptographer at Bletchley Park Jack Copeland Self - Author of 'Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers' 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 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

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed831

Dialogue density13.8 lines / min

First line00:00:14

Final line00:57:33

Production Record

DirectorJulian Carey

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes106