Timeline

The Imitation Game (2014) actually begins in 1951, with Alan Turing's arrest for indecency. However, Turing begins to describe his service during World War II and this is when the movie plot begins just in 1939. There are a few segments where Alan Turing flashes back to his time at boarding school around 1928. These serve to detail Turing's life as a child and indicate the importance of naming the bombe 'Christopher', after his first love who died of bovine tuberculosis. The movie's last moments are long after Turing's indictment and service in World War II, sometime after 1951 and just before his death. In the end, several bits of final information are revealed like Turing's pardoning from the queen in 2013.