The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game is a 2014 British historical drama based on the 1983 biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who decrypted Nazi intelligence messages for the British government during World War II.

This is an incredible WW2 drama — actually, one of the best historical WW2 films ever made. There’s some compelling subplots too:

˜ Having broken the Nazi Enigma code, British intelligence had to judiciously use the data — so as not alert the Nazis that their code had been broken. Basically, they…