Operation Crossbow
Documentary telling the little-known story about how the Allies used 3D photographs to thwart the Nazis' superweapons before they could devastate Britain.
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. 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.
Last on
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The Germans develop the V Weapon
Duration: 02:05
Music Played
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Indochine
Le Lac (Farside Mix)
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | Samantha Bond |
Executive Producer | Eamon Hardy |
Producer | Tim Dunn |
Director | Tim Dunn |
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 May 2011 21:00
- Sun 15 May 2011 23:20麻豆社 HD
- Mon 16 May 2011 20:00麻豆社 HD
- Tue 17 May 2011 23:20
- Sun 11 Sep 2011 20:00麻豆社 HD & 麻豆社 Two
- Tue 13 Sep 2011 23:20麻豆社 HD
- Mon 16 Jul 2012 21:00
- Wed 2 Jan 2013 20:00
- Sat 12 Jan 2013 18:00麻豆社 HD
- Mon 6 May 2013 21:00
- Tue 30 Jul 2013 22:30
- Tue 26 Nov 2013 22:50
- Tue 22 Apr 2014 22:50
- Mon 27 Jul 2015 23:30
- Mon 23 Nov 2015 00:05
- Wed 7 Sep 2016 21:00
- Mon 12 Sep 2016 00:30
- Sun 23 Jul 2017 20:50
- Thu 7 Mar 2019 21:00
- Thu 29 Aug 2019 22:00