"The film illustrates so well the aura of excitement when codes are broken and the deep depression when they temporarily cannot be cracked." The release of Enigma comes after Hollywood stands accused ...

If new World War II code-breaking film Enigma is criticised for its historical inaccuracies, no-one can say that the film-makers did not try. Tom Stoppard, who wrote the screenplay, got so immersed in ...

Directed by Michael Apted and adapted by Tom Stoppard from the Robert Harris bestseller, “Enigma” is set in 1943 as two young British mathematicians try to crack the Enigma Code of a German U ...

The enigma of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself.

While working on several Japanese codes in late 1944, Desch cracked and walked off the job. Although he was persuaded to return several weeks later, he never fully recovered from his breakdown.

Allied efforts to break the German Enigma Code, specifically the work of pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, were depicted in the movie “The Imitation Game.” ...

The new movie The Imitation Game is about British mathematician Alan Turing and his attempts to crack Germany's Enigma Code during World War Two. Now, a mathematician of that era was hardly ...