Two movies I’ve seen that involve the Enigma machine are:
The Imitation Game and U-571.
Really it’s the Imitation Game movie that goes into detail. U-571 was how they retrieved the devices. Submarine. Downside of Imitation Game was the homosexuality. No reason to bring that into it imo. Honestly towards the end of the movie it becomes the focus. But overall a decent watch.
What I liked was all the interviews with people who were there, including Germans. That last part in the Imitation Game was not nice, but true. The government really did chemically castrate him, in the belief that this would somehow cure homosexuality.
Thing is he was a very shy, unassuming person, with a bent for numbers and systems. It was disgraceful. It was also illogical. The man was truly afraid of women, as became apparent in this documentary.
U-571 was fictional, based loosely on a failed British mission to capture a newer version of the machine.
The polish captured a device early in the war, this was cracked in Bletchley park by Professor Turin. He was hailed as a hero, who was the main contributor to victory, not the drunk Churchill.
As vengeance, some say it was Churchill who pushed to have him institutionalised and chemically castrated after the war, because he was found to be a homosexual, which was illegal at the time.
Two movies I’ve seen that involve the Enigma machine are: The Imitation Game and U-571.
Really it’s the Imitation Game movie that goes into detail. U-571 was how they retrieved the devices. Submarine. Downside of Imitation Game was the homosexuality. No reason to bring that into it imo. Honestly towards the end of the movie it becomes the focus. But overall a decent watch.
What I liked was all the interviews with people who were there, including Germans. That last part in the Imitation Game was not nice, but true. The government really did chemically castrate him, in the belief that this would somehow cure homosexuality.
Thing is he was a very shy, unassuming person, with a bent for numbers and systems. It was disgraceful. It was also illogical. The man was truly afraid of women, as became apparent in this documentary.
U-571 was fictional, based loosely on a failed British mission to capture a newer version of the machine.
The polish captured a device early in the war, this was cracked in Bletchley park by Professor Turin. He was hailed as a hero, who was the main contributor to victory, not the drunk Churchill.
As vengeance, some say it was Churchill who pushed to have him institutionalised and chemically castrated after the war, because he was found to be a homosexual, which was illegal at the time.
Best doc on enigma ever made, i actually watched this on tv when it was released back in the 90's