Yes. The True story confirms that on March 31, 1952,British authorities put Alan Turing on trial for indecency because he hadhomosexual relations with a 19-year-old man named Arnold Murray, twenty yearshis junior. Homosexuality was a crime in Great Britain in the early 1950s,falling under gross indecency in Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act1885. To avoid jail time for his indecency conviction, Turing underwentchemical castration in the form of a year's worth of estrogen (stilboestrol)injections designed to reduce his libido. In addition to rendering himimpotent, another side effect of the hormone therapy was that Turing developedgynaecomastia, or an enlarged chest (breasts). On June 7, 1954, approximately ayear after his hormone treatments ended, Turing killed himself by eating anapple that he had likely injected with cyanide. We say "likely" becausethe apple was never tested for cyanide, though it was speculated that this wasthe delivery method.

No, the true story reveals that the name of the realcodebreaking machine was less personal. Unlike the movie, it was not namedChristopher after Turing's late friend and first love, teenage companionChristopher Morcom (Morcom was a real teenage friend who Alan met at SherborneSchool). Instead, Turing's machine was called the Bombe, named after an earlierPolish version of the codebreaking machine. Like in the movie, Turing created amuch improved version of the Polish machine. The U.S. eventually produced itsown equivalents, but they were engineered differently than the British Bombecreated by Alan Turing and his team.

For the most part, yes. However, the real codebreaking machine, the Bombe,was housed in a Bakelite box. Production designer Maria Djurkovic and her teamresearched the working replica that is on display at Bletchley Park inBuckinghamshire, England. "Our version of the machine had to lookconvincing," says Djurkovic. She and director Morten Tyldum decided toreveal the machine's inner workings. They also added more red cables to givethe audience the feeling that blood was pumping through its veins.

Yes. In the movie, we see Alan Turing ask Joan Clarke to marry him as a way to keep her at Bletchley Park, since her parents want her to move on withher life and find a husband. Though Turing does tell Joan about his attractionto men, in the film he only breaks off the engagement after John Cairncross,the Soviet spy, threatens to reveal that Turing is gay, which could in turnnegatively affect Joan.

In real life, Alan Turing's marriage proposal in the spring of 1941 wasn't aploy to keep Joan at Bletchley Park. He also didn't break off the engagement asthe result of pressure from a Soviet spy. The real Joan Clarke says that thetwo were interested in one another, despite their relationship lacking acertain physical element. Turing even arranged their shifts so they could worktogether. They went on dates to the cinema and other places, and despite therenot being much physical contact, they did kiss. Turing introduced Joan to hisfamily. Author Andrew Hodges states in his Turing biography that "the ideathat marriage should include a mutual sexual satisfaction was still a modernone, which had not yet replaced the older idea of marriage as a socialduty."