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Message: [QUOTE="newfrontier, post: 3625659, member: 8141"] You beat me to it by listing "[B]The Imitation Game[/B]". I really liked this film. It is the story of Alan Turing, a mathematical genius who invented one of the first "computers" that allowed he and his team to break the unbreakable German Nazi "Enigma" code. It is based on a true story (but criticized by some for some historical inaccuracies). This man may have quietly been the biggest hero of WWII, as some historians say his breaking the code may have shortened the war by 2 years and saved 14 million lives! Interestingly, Turing and his team (along with British Intelligence folks) had to allow Germany to win some battles even though they knew what the Nazis were going do (too many Allied wins would make the Germans suspicious that their code had been broken and they would have changed it, leaving the Allies in the dark again.) I agree that Cumberbatch is excellent as Tuning and so is Keira Knightley in a smaller supporting role. Has she ever played a role in a film where she wasn't good to great? Side note - if the Allies knew the German code, how were the Americans so badly surprised by Germany's late counter offensive in the Battle of the Buldge??? [/QUOTE]