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Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 17, 1996

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

History, Drama, TV Movie

User Score

54%

Original Title

Breaking the Code

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Herbert Wise

Description

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.