Cracking the Code The Killer Code
The Zodiac Killer Code reveals the desperate bid to catch America’s most mysterious serial killer. Will breaking his complex coded messages finally unmask the Zodiac and lead to his capture?
The universe is full of coded secrets – in its flora and fauna, its solar systems, in its medicine, its mathematics, its criminal behaviour and its manufacturing. Man-made enigmas hiding top-secret information, ancient wisdom lost in indecipherable languages, mysteries from space brought to us in strange radio waves. Featuring the stories of the female codebreaker who helped win World War II, Einstein’s universe-defining equations, classical texts that held the secret of Ancient Greece’s origins and messages from the Mafia. Cracking the Code reveals the greatest codes known to humanity and the brilliant minds that cracked them.
Primary Title
- Cracking the Code
Episode Title
- The Killer Code
Date Broadcast
- Wednesday 6 December 2023
Start Time
- 19 : 30
Finish Time
- 20 : 30
Duration
- 60:00
Series
- 1
Episode
- 2
Channel
- Whakaata Maori
Broadcaster
- Whakaata Maori
Programme Description
- The universe is full of coded secrets – in its flora and fauna, its solar systems, in its medicine, its mathematics, its criminal behaviour and its manufacturing. Man-made enigmas hiding top-secret information, ancient wisdom lost in indecipherable languages, mysteries from space brought to us in strange radio waves. Featuring the stories of the female codebreaker who helped win World War II, Einstein’s universe-defining equations, classical texts that held the secret of Ancient Greece’s origins and messages from the Mafia. Cracking the Code reveals the greatest codes known to humanity and the brilliant minds that cracked them.
Episode Description
- The Zodiac Killer Code reveals the desperate bid to catch America’s most mysterious serial killer. Will breaking his complex coded messages finally unmask the Zodiac and lead to his capture?
Classification
- PGR
Owning Collection
- TV & Radio
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- Cryptography--History--20th century
- Documentary television programs--United States
Genres
- Documentary
- History
Contributors
- Demetri Goritsas (Narrator)
- Andra Heritage (Executive Producer)
- Dan Chambers (Executive Producer)
- Ben Barrett (Executive Producer)
- Al Blane (Producer)
- Rob Goldie (Director of Photography)
- Anthony Clark (Composer)
- Dan Jobar (Editor)
- Blink Films (Production Unit)
- Curiosity Inc (Production Unit)
Subjects
- Cryptography--History--20th century
- Documentary television programs--United States