雷夫（本•阿弗莱特）和丹尼（乔什•哈奈特）是一对自小玩在一起的好兄弟，两人对飞行都有很大兴趣，曾一起学习过驾驶飞机，二战初期，两人又一起加入了美国空军部队。受训期间，雷夫与军中医院里的女护士伊弗琳（凯特•贝金赛尔）坠入爱河。
为协助欧洲各国抵抗纳粹德国的侵略，美军决定派出精英部队前往欧洲大陆，雷夫自告奋勇前往参战，并将伊弗琳托付给丹尼照顾，不久，噩耗传来，雷夫的飞机在空战中不幸被德军击落，生还可能几乎为零。伊弗琳与丹尼在相互勉励的伤痛中，萌生爱情。令他们没想到的是，雷夫并没死去，当三人重聚首时，尴尬顿生。日军偷袭珍珠港一事帮他们解了围，雷夫与丹尼决定不做情敌做战友。

二战期间，盟军苦于德国的秘密系统”英格玛“无法破译，政府召集了一批民间数学家、逻辑学家进行秘密破解工作，图灵（本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 Benedict Cumberbatch 饰）就是其中之一。计划刚开始图灵遭到了以休（马修·古迪 Matthew Goode）为首的组员和领导的排斥，幸好军情处部长孟席斯（马克·斯特朗 Mark Strong 饰）帮助他立项研究破译密码的机器，而图灵则变成了负责人，招收了新的成员琼（凯拉·奈特莉 Keira Knightley）开始了艰难的工作。琼很快就迷上了图灵，由于她的帮助所有组员空前的团结，并于两年后成功破解德军的密码。图灵一度与琼订婚，但实际上他隐瞒了一个秘密，因为这个秘密他也遭受了非人的待遇……
本片改编自安德鲁·霍奇斯编著的《艾伦·图灵传》，上映后获得了第87届奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。

A monumental, groundbreaking work of history that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield—from the Spanish Armada to the War on Terror— and how mastery of these innovations has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires
In War Made New , acclaimed author Max Boot explores how innovations in warfare mark crucial turning points in modern history, influencing events well beyond the realm of combat. Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, Boot focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes key battles from each period to explain how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air-strikes have remade the field of battle— and shaped the rise and fall of empires. Bringing to life battles from the defeat of the Spanish Armada to Wellington’s victory at Assaye, War Made New analyzes the Gunpowder Revolution and explains warfare’s evolution from ritualistic, drawn-out engagements to much deadlier events, precipitating the rise of the modern nation state. He next explores the triumph of steel and steam during the Industrial Revolution, including the British triumph at Omdurman and the climax of the Russo-Japanese war at Tsushima, showing how it powered the spread of European colonial empires. Moving into the twentieth century and the Second Industrial Revolution, Boot examines three critical clashes of World War II—the German army’s blitzkrieg, Pearl Harbor, and the firebombing of Tokyo—to illustrate how new technology such as the tank, radio, and airplane ushered in terrifying new forms of warfare that aided the rise of highly centralized, and even totalitarian, world powers. Finally, in his section on the Information Revolution, Boot focuses on the Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the Iraq war, arguing that even as cutting-edge technologies such as stealth aircraft have made America the greatest military power in world history, advanced communications systems have allowed decentralized, "irregular" forces to become an increasingly significant threat to Western power.