Breaking the Code 1996

Breaking the Code (1996) is a History and Drama film from United Kingdom in the lookmovie catalog, running 1h 31m. Directed by Herbert Wise, it features Derek Jacobi and Alun Armstrong. Viewers rate it 5.6/10 from 19 votes. A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.