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Breaking the Code (1996)

Breaking the Code (1996)

Drama History TV Movie
Release Date: 1996, September 17
Directors: Herbert Wise
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BBC, BBC
Cast: Alun Armstrong, Derek Jacobi, Richard Johnson, Amanda Root, Blake Ritson, William Mannering, Prunella Scales, Julian Kerridge

Overview:

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.