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Operation Crossbow (2011)

ALL 05/15/2011 (en) Documentary, History, TV Movie 59 Min
  • Release
    05/15/2011
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    67%
  • Original title
    Operation Crossbow
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D photos to thwart the Nazis' weapons of mass destruction before they could obliterate Britain. This film brings together the heroic Spitfire pilots who took the photographs and the brilliant minds of RAF Medmenham that made sense of the jigsaw of clues hidden in the photos. Hitler was pumping a fortune into his new-fangled V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. But Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life every contour of the enemy landscape in perfect 3D. The devil was truly in the detail and, together with extraordinary personal testimonies, the film uses modern computer graphics on the original wartime photographs to show just how the photo interpreters were able to uncover Hitler's nastiest secrets.

  1. Tim Dunn

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ross Bradley

    Editor

  4. Tim Dunn

    Producer



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  1. Samantha Bond

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Dino A. Brugioni

    Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.

  3. Elizabeth Hick

    Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

  4. Col. Robert S. Ehlers

    Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.

  5. Jimmy Taylor

    Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

  6. Allan Williams

    Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University

  7. Wing Commander Mike Mockford

    Himself - Photo Interpreter

  8. Major Chris Halsall

    Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.

  9. John S. Blyth

    Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

  10. Geoffrey Stone

    Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

  11. Col. Roy M. Stanley

    Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.

  12. Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt

    Himself - Peenemünde Museum

  13. John Bell

    Himself - Bomb Aimer

  14. Eugene Black

    Himself - Mittelbau-Dora Inmate

  15. Margaret Hurley

    Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 15 , Crews : 11

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Operation Crossbow (2011) 59 Min

ALL 05/15/2011 (en)
Documentary, History, TV Movie
  • Release 05/15/2011
  • Production
    BBC
  • Original title Operation Crossbow
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D photos to thwart the Nazis' weapons of mass destruction before they could obliterate Britain. This film brings together the heroic Spitfire pilots who took the photographs and the brilliant minds of RAF Medmenham that made sense of the jigsaw of clues hidden in the photos. Hitler was pumping a fortune into his new-fangled V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. But Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life every contour of the enemy landscape in perfect 3D. The devil was truly in the detail and, together with extraordinary personal testimonies, the film uses modern computer graphics on the original wartime photographs to show just how the photo interpreters were able to uncover Hitler's nastiest secrets.

  1. Tim Dunn

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ross Bradley

    Editor

  4. Tim Dunn

    Producer



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