Movie Description
Operation Crossbow
(2011)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Tim Dunn
- Producer : Tim Dunn
- Editor : Ross Bradley
- Cast : Samantha Bond,Dino A. Brugioni,Elizabeth Hick,Col. Robert S. Ehlers,Jimmy Taylor,Allan Williams,Wing Commander Mike Mockford,Major Chris Halsall,John S. Blyth,Geoffrey Stone,Col. Roy M. Stanley,Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt,John Bell,Eugene Black,Margaret Hurley
Cast
Narrator (voice)
Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.
Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University
Himself - Photo Interpreter
Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.
Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
Himself - Peenemünde Museum
Himself - Bomb Aimer
Himself - Mittelbau-Dora Inmate
Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
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Facts
Original TitleOperation Crossbow
Status Released
Release Information
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2011-05-15
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 00h 59m
Production CompaniesBBC
Genres
- Documentary
- History
- TV Movie