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Operation Crossbow

05/15/2011

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0hr 59min

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Documentary

,History

,TV Movie

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Samantha Bond
  • Dino A. Brugioni
  • Elizabeth Hick
  • Col. Robert S. Ehlers
  • Jimmy Taylor

    Director

  • Tim Dunn

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Samantha Bond

Narrator (voice)

Dino A. Brugioni

Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.

Elizabeth Hick

Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

Col. Robert S. Ehlers

Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.

Jimmy Taylor

Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

Allan Williams

Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University

Wing Commander Mike Mockford

Himself - Photo Interpreter

Major Chris Halsall

Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.

John S. Blyth

Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

Geoffrey Stone

Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

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