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Operation Crossbow

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Calorie Rating: 83
Released: 2011-05-15
Running Time: 59 Minutes
Studios: BBC,


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.

Director / Directors

Tim Dunn
Director


Cast

Samantha Bond
Character: Narrator (voice)
Dino A. Brugioni
Character: Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.
Elizabeth Hick
Character: Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham

Col. Robert S. Ehlers
Character: Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
Jimmy Taylor
Character: Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
Allan Williams
Character: Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University

Wing Commander Mike Mockford
Character: Himself - Photo Interpreter
Major Chris Halsall
Character: Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.
John S. Blyth
Character: Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot

Geoffrey Stone
Character: Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
Col. Roy M. Stanley
Character: Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt
Character: Himself - Peenemünde Museum

John Bell
Character: Himself - Bomb Aimer
Eugene Black
Character: Himself - Mittelbau-Dora Inmate
Margaret Hurley
Character: Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham


Production and Crew

Jon Briest
Production Manager
Amelia Wilkey
Makeup Designer

Jan Walker
Production Design
Caitlin Tanner
Makeup Designer
Eamon Hardy
Executive Producer

Tim Dunn
Producer
John Leo Dutton
Original Music Composer
Neville Kidd
Director of Photography