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The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer (2012)
Directed by Mike Beckham
Documentary · 1h 15m
A historical and scientific investigation telling the extraordinary story of how the ancient Greeks built a computer 2,000 years ago. Set against the glorious backdrop of classical Greece, this Grierson-nominated film follows the international research team who finally solved the puzzle of the ‘Antikythera Mechanism’. Scientific breakthroughs illustrated with stunning graphics and reenactments, reveal a trail of mysterious numbers that solved the conundrum of the gears – a real life Da Vinci code set in ancient Greece.
Crew
- Director
- Mike Beckham
- Director of Photography
- Steve Gray
- Original Music Composer
- Stephen Daltry, Stefanos Konstantinidis
- Editor
- Simon Ruben
- Producer
- Tony Freeth, Mike Beckham
Details
- Release date
- 2012-03-14
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Greece, France, Japan
- Production
- Anemon Productions, Images First, ARTE, ERT, NHK, Nikon, National Hellenic Research Foundation