Bibliograph

American experience, Steward/Gazit Productions ; produced by Chana Gazit and Hilary Klotz Steinmen ; written and directed by Chana Gazit.

Type

Label

American experience, Steward/Gazit Productions ; produced by Chana Gazit and Hilary Klotz Steinmen ; written and directed by Chana Gazit.

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: TVPG (IMDb)

Main title

American experience

Responsibility statement

Steward/Gazit Productions ; produced by Chana Gazit and Hilary Klotz Steinmen ; written and directed by Chana Gazit.

Runtime

Series statement

American Experience

Summary

The fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would only come to light decades after her death when classified government files were unsealed. But together with her husband, the legendary cryptologist William Friedman, Elizebeth helped develop the codebreaking methods that led to the creation of the powerful new science of cryptology and laid the foundation for modern codebreaking today

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Codebreaker, wife, mother, secret American heroCodebreakerCode breaker

Classification