Top Secret Rosies: The Female ‘Computers’ of WWII 2009 123movies

Watch: Top Secret Rosies: The Female ‘Computers’ of WWII 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1942 a secret US military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would become human ‘computers’ for the Army. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, women worked round-the-clock shifts creating ballistics tables for every weapon in the US arsenal. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was developed to aid the Army’s calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers. While the work of these human computers proved crucial to allied victory, it also carried a moral weight – how to square the larger issue of ending a world war against the personal recognition that their mathematical computations made every Allied bomb and gun more deadly. The summer of 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII, yet the amazing account of these women remains untold, until now. Top Secret ‘Rosies’: The Female ‘Computers’ of WWII shares a story of the women and technology that helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age..
Plot: In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Sixty-five years later their story has finally been told.
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A forgotten part of WWII finally getting its due.
I love historical films and documentaries–which isn’t surprising as I am a retired history teacher. And, of these films, the ones that are often my favorites are ones that introduce the viewer to little-known aspects of history–people or events that have been overlooked over the years. So, when I noticed “Top Secret Rosies” on Netflix, I was sure to give it a viewing.

The film is about a group of women who were vitally important to the war effort during WWII–though I’ve never heard of their work discussed. Apparently, to make bomb sites and artillery effective, they needed to create long and very complex mathematical tables–huge books which helped them calculate the trajectories of weapons. So, people manned adding machines and VERY simple computers and worked multiple shifts–all to get this work done as soon as possible. This story is about these folks–in particular, the women who worked these primitive computational machines.

In addition to discussing their work, there is some discussion of the moral implications of this as well. In other words, these calculations were made to kill people–and not just with conventional bombs or projectiles but ultimately, the atomic bomb. There also was a segment that talked about how these women, unlike ‘Rosie the Riveter’ and WACs and the like, were never acknowledged–even though they made a huge contribution to the war effort.

All in all, an interesting documentary that’s pretty well made, though I doubt if it’s something that will appeal to the casual viewer.

“They learned something about themselves that was really important.”
Sometimes the unheralded achievements of the past are even more fascinating than the better know accomplishments. This documentary style picture reveals how women helped shape the Allied victory in World War II via the recruitment of female mathematicians out of colleges and universities. With many of the country’s men marching off to war, it was women who came forward to fulfill a mission as ‘human computers’, often working night and day to supplement the war effort. The primary focus of the story is how these women, some of whom were personally interviewed on camera, used their knowledge of differential equations to project the trajectory of bullets and bombs so that they would hit their targets. In due time, some of these women found themselves working on the development of the ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer – the first electronic general-purpose digital computer, capable of solving a large class of numerical problems through reprogramming. Unfortunately, the accomplishments of these women were never recognized at the time, as they returned to their post war lives to get married and raise families. It’s a fascinating story of these ‘Top Secret Rosies’, who never gained the notoriety of their equally named counterparts in the industrial sector who went by the nickname of Rosie the Riveter.

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Original Language en
Runtime 56 min (USA)
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Genre Documentary, War
Director LeAnn Erickson
Writer Cynthia Baughman
Actors Jean Jennings Bartik, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Shirley Melvin
Country United States
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