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Released
2015 · FILM

Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing

Directed by
Runtime
58 min
Documentary

Synopsis

This film, narrated by Dr. Hannah Fry, explores the life of Ada Lovelace, an unexpected pioneer in computing. Born in the early 19th century, Ada was a countess, a figure of social controversy, and known as an "enchantress of numbers." The film recounts how her brilliant yet challenging life—marked by illness and a gambling addiction—contributed to the emergence of modern computing.

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Principal cast & crew: 8

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

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Edited by Graeme Dawson

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