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Breaking the Code

54% | Sep 17, 1996 | History, Drama, TV Movie

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.

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Herbert Wise
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Andrew Hodges
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Derek Jacobi
Alan Turing
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Alun Armstrong
Mick Ross
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Blake Ritson
Christopher Morcom
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Prunella Scales
Sara Turing
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Harold Pinter
John Smith

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