Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The imitation game / producer, Teddy Schwarzman ; directed by Morten Tyldum ; written by Graham Moore.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2015.

Description:

1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to shortening his life.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG-13; for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.

Subjects:

Hodges, Andrew -- Film adaptations.

Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954 -- Drama.

Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Drama.

Feature films.

Biographical films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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