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This short Alan Turing biography video from Cambridge University offers an overview of Turing's life, including his work at Bletchley Park to crack the Nazi's Enigma machine. The science behind both the Enigma machine and Turing's Bombe machine is explained.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptologist, logician, and computer scientist who was a key component in cracking Germany's Enigma code, which helped the Allies win WWII. Some historians believe that cracking the code shaved up to two years off of the fighting between Germany and the Allied forces. The movie is based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.