American experience., The codebreaker

Resource Information

The work American experience., The codebreaker represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boxford Town Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

American experience., The codebreaker

Title part

The codebreaker

Statement of responsibility

a Steward/Gazit Productions film for American experience ; a production of WGBH ; written and directed by Chana Gazit ; produced by Chana Gazit and Hilary Klotz Steinman

Title variation

• Code breaker
• American experience, codebreaker
• Codebreaker

Title variation remainder

wife, mother, secret American hero

Contributor

• Steinmen, Hilary Klotz
• PBS Distribution (Firm)
• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
• Steward/Gazit Productions
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Burton, Kate
• Fagone, Jason
• Gazit, Chana
• Ruiz, Vanessa
• Sherman, Nancy

Film distributor

• PBS Distribution (Firm)

Narrator

• Burton, Kate

Production company

• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
• Steward/Gazit Productions

Publisher

• Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Television director

• Gazit, Chana

Television producer

• Ruiz, Vanessa
• Gazit, Chana
• Sherman, Nancy
• Steinmen, Hilary Klotz

Subject

• Biographical television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography
• Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980
• Documentary television programs
• Cryptography -- United States -- History
• Cryptographers -- United States -- Biography
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Cryptography
• Historical television programs

Genre

• Documentary television programs
• Nonfiction television programs
• Historical television programs
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Biography
• Biographical television programs

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

Presents the story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a suburban American wife whose work as a cryptanalyst sent gangsters to prison and brought down a Nazi spy ring in Argentina in World War II

Member of

• American experience (Television program)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Edited by Jon Neuburger

Dewey number

• 652/.8092
• B

Intended audience

TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-PG (parental guidance suggested; this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children)

Language note

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

LC call number

• Z103.4.U6
• D639.C75

LC item number

• C63 2021
• C63 2021

PerformerNote

Narrator, Kate Burton

Runtime

60

Target audience

general

Technique

live action