Fagone, Jason

Chronicles the life of Elizebeth Friedman, who played a role in our nation's history for forty years. She used her cryptography skills to hunt Nazi spies, steal enemy secrets during both world wars, and helped to shape the history of code-breaking.

Chronicles the lives of Elizebeth Friedman and her husband, William F. Friedman, cryptographers who helped the United States government during the early and mid-twentieth century, and looks at the history of code-breaking.

Examines the stories of four teams working to win the X Prize Foundation's 2007 challenge of building a car that could go one hundred miles on only a gallon of gas, or of a gallon's energy equivalent in electric or alternative fuels. Explores the trials and failures of each of the four teams as well as the relative success of their finished products, which often looked nothing like cars at all, and yet worked.