Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow (2011)


  • Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 2011-05-15
  • User Rating: 6.7/10 from 3 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 59min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Tim Dunn
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Summary

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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  • Samantha Bond

    as Narrator (voice)

  • Dino A. Brugioni

    as Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.

  • Elizabeth Hick

    as Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

  • Col. Robert S. Ehlers

    as Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.

  • Jimmy Taylor

    as Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

  • Allan Williams

    as Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University

  • Wing Commander Mike Mockford

    as Himself - Photo Interpreter

  • Major Chris Halsall

    as Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.

  • John S. Blyth

    as Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

  • Geoffrey Stone

    as Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

  • Col. Roy M. Stanley

    as Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.

  • Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt

    as Himself - Peenemünde Museum

  • John Bell

    as Himself - Bomb Aimer

  • Eugene Black

    as Himself - Mittelbau-Dora Inmate

  • Margaret Hurley

    as Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
Costume & Make-Up Amelia Wilkey Makeup Designer
Art Jan Walker Production Design
Production Jon Briest Production Manager
Costume & Make-Up Caitlin Tanner Makeup Designer
Editing Ross Bradley Editor
Camera Neville Kidd Director of Photography
Production Tim Dunn Producer
Sound John Leo Dutton Original Music Composer
Sound Chris Syner Sound
Directing Tim Dunn Director
Production Eamon Hardy Executive Producer

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