Codebreaker: The Alan Turing Story [Blu-ray] Blu-ray

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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray-Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: CODEBREAKER: the remarkable and tragic story of one of the 20th centurys most important people; ALAN TURING. 100 years after his birth, we rediscover the man and the mystery. CODEBREAKER re-counts the story of this maverick British genius who was crucial to founding three new fields of science as well as breaking the Nazis naval Enigma code during World War II. Historians credit his codebreaking with helping to shorten the war by two years and saving millions of lives. As the founding father of computer science and artificial intelligence, Alan Turing envisioned our digital world long before anyone else. Turings visionary brilliance was overshadowed by his conviction for gross indecency with another man in 1952. He was forced to undergo so-called organo-therapy (chemical castration) to change his sexual orientation. In despair, Turing committed suicide in 1954. He was only 41 years old. ...