During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted communications code. Without a doubt, the key player in this game was Alan Turing, an interdisciplinary scientist and a long-forgotten hero.
Direction
Balances wartime thriller pacing with devastating personal archive reveals.
Production
Rare Bombe footage and Turing's actual handwritten letters hit hard.
Director
Denis van Waerebeke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The UK government didn't pardon Turing until 2013—59 years after his death. Queen Elizabeth II issued the royal pardon, but 49,000 other men convicted under the same law died without apology.
Turing's 1952 trial specifically cited his relationship with Arnold Murray as 'gross indecency'—the same charge that destroyed Oscar Wilde. The judge offered prison or chemical castration. Turing chose the estrogen injections.
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