Operation Crossbow
movie
Released May 15, 2011
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Overview
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.
Cast
Samantha Bond
as
Narrator (voice)
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Dino A. Brugioni
as
Himself - Senior CIA Analyst, Ret.
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Elizabeth Hick
as
Herself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
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Col. Robert S. Ehlers
as
Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
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Jimmy Taylor
as
Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
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Allan Williams
as
Himself - Researcher. Edinburgh University
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Wing Commander Mike Mockford
as
Himself - Photo Interpreter
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Major Chris Halsall
as
Himself - Intelligence Corps, Ret.
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John S. Blyth
as
Himself - Reconnaissance Pilot
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Geoffrey Stone
as
Himself - Photographic Interpreter, RAF Medmenham
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Col. Roy M. Stanley
as
Himself - US Air Force Intelligence, Ret.
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Christian Muhldorfer-Vogt
as
Himself - Peenemünde Museum
Crew
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Jan Walker
as
Production Design
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Jon Briest
as
Production Manager
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Amelia Wilkey
as
Makeup Designer
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Ross Bradley
as
Editor
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Caitlin Tanner
as
Makeup Designer
Neville Kidd
as
Director of Photography
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Tim Dunn
as
Director
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Chris Syner
as
Sound
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Eamon Hardy
as
Executive Producer
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John Leo Dutton
as
Original Music Composer
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Tim Dunn
as
Producer