| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 15, 2011 |
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| Director: | Tim Dunn |
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| Genres: | History, Documentary, TV Movie |
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| Production Companies | BBC |
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| Name | Character |
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| Samantha Bond | Narrator (voice) |
| Dino A. Brugioni | Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret. |
| Elizabeth Hick | Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham |
| Col. Robert S. Ehlers | Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret. |
| Jimmy Taylor | Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot |
| Allan Williams | Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University |
| Wing Commander Mike Mockford | Himself - Photo Interpreter |
| Major Chris Halsall | Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret. |
| John S. Blyth | Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot |
| Geoffrey Stone | Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham |
| Col. Roy M. Stanley | Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret. |
| Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt | Himself - Peenemünde Museum |
| John Bell | Himself - Bomb Aimer |
| Eugene Black | Himself - Mittelbau-Dora Inmate |
| Margaret Hurley | Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham |
| Name | Job |
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| Jon Briest | Production Manager |
| Ross Bradley | Editor |
| Amelia Wilkey | Makeup Designer |
| Jan Walker | Production Design |
| Caitlin Tanner | Makeup Designer |
| Tim Dunn | Director |
| John Leo Dutton | Original Music Composer |
| Neville Kidd | Director of Photography |
| Chris Syner | Sound |
| Name | Title |
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| Eamon Hardy | Executive Producer |
| Tim Dunn | Producer |
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