Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Crack the Alan Turing Code

Cryptology rarely inspires blockbuster movies. But that's about to change this summer, when Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley star in The Imitation Game — a movie that covers British cryptologists' top-secret efforts to break the German Enigma cipher and defeat the Nazis during World War II

Cumberbatch, better known as Sherlock, plays another genius who has a hard time fitting in — in this case pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing. Keira Knightley plays Joan Clarke, a member of his team at the famous Hut 8 in Bletchley Park

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