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Breaking the code / a co-production by the Drama House and WGBH/Mobil Masterpiece Theatre for BBC North ; written by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Jack Emery ; directed by Herbert Wise.
LIBRA VHS PR6073.H577 B742 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Hodges, Andrew, Alan Turing, the enigma., author.
- Series:
- Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
- Mobil Masterpiece theatre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitemore, Hugh--Film adaptations.
- Whitemore, Hugh.
- Hodges, Andrew--Film adaptations.
- Hodges, Andrew.
- Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.
- Turing, Alan.
- Mathematicians--Great Britain--Drama.
- Mathematicians.
- Gifted persons--Drama.
- Gifted persons.
- Gay men--Drama.
- Gay men.
- Electronic digital computers.
- Cryptography.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography--Drama.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Drama.
- Electronic digital computers--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Video Treasures ; Troy, MI : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, [1997]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC; Region 1.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- region 1
- Summary:
- The story of Alan Turing, British mathematical genius and designer of the computer that broke the German Enigma code during World War II, whose admittance to homosexuality at a time when it was illegal presented problems for him, for his family, for his colleagues, and for the State's preoccupation with national security.
- Participant:
- Derek Jacobi, Alun Armstrong, Richard Johnson, Harold Pinter, Amanda Root, Prunella Scales.
- Commentator, Russell Baker.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Robin Vidgeon ; editor, Laurence Mèry-Clark.
- Notes:
- Based on the play of the same title by Hugh Whitemore, and on the book, Alan Turing, the enigma, by Andrew Hodges.
- Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS television series, Mobil Masterpiece theatre in 1996.
- ISBN:
- 1564426629
- OCLC:
- 53917408
- Publisher Number:
- 013131012330
- SV10123 WGBH Boston Video
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