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The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer

The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer

20121h 15min
7.5

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.

GenreDocumentary
Production CompaniesAnemon Productions, Images First, ARTE, ERT, NHK, Nikon, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Production CcountriesUnited Kingdom, Greece, France, Japan

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