Operation Crossbow 2011
6.7 / 10
Operation Crossbow
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.
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.
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... Narrator (voice)
DAB
Dino A. Brugioni... Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.
... Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
... Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
JT
Jimmy Taylor... Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
... Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University
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Release Date:
May 15, 2011 (United Kingdom)
Run Time:
59`
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Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Status:
Released
Cast & Crew of
Operation Crossbow
Directors & Credit Writers
TD
Tim Dunn... Director
Cast
... Narrator (voice)
DAB
Dino A. Brugioni... Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.
... Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
... Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
JT
Jimmy Taylor... Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
... Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University
... Himself - Photo Interpreter
... Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.
JSB
John S. Blyth... Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
... Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
CRMS
Col. Roy M. Stanley... Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
... Himself - Peenemünde Museum
JB
John Bell... Himself - Bomb Aimer
EB
Eugene Black... Himself - Mittelbau-Dora Inmate
... Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
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