On You Tube there's a great documentary video from NOVA called World War II Mind of a Code Breaker. It's the story of the British code breakers in Bletchley park and explains the vital role code breaking and Signals Intelligence played during the Second World War.
The documentary tells the story of the German Enigma and Lorenz cipher machines. Visit the playlist to see all episodes. It's a 12 part video (113 minutes), so take your time for it. It's well worth watching!
The documentary tells the story of the German Enigma and Lorenz cipher machines. Visit the playlist to see all episodes. It's a 12 part video (113 minutes), so take your time for it. It's well worth watching!
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Is it available on tape or DVD?
No idea. As with most documentaries about cryptography, probably not.
You could try contacting Nova at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/feedback/ and asking them.
Tried NOVA's shop, didn't find it...
http://www.shoppbs.org/family/index.jsp?cp=2729308&categoryId=2883345&view=all
From what I see on the video, it seems a very old VHS. Many of the people on thee video don't live any more...
Found an on-line piece about this subject:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/mind.html
Apparently, it was broadcast as a TV program in September 1999:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/26.html#2615
The main pages is called "Decoding Nazi Secrets"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
I have no ideo of the author of these youtube uploads, but I found their "offical page", which seems most interesting. It appears to be all material in the public domain. These are all some very - old documentaries:
http://www.youtube.com/user/2bn442RCT
On the subject of YouTube links, I recently found this tour of Bletchley Park, given by one of their tour guides. It's in 9 parts, the first of which is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMFp2FQPsY
Well worth watching, IMHO, and contains a little more technical detail than the "real" tour which you get if you go to BP.
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