New to Netflix is an important drama about Operation Mincemeat, the plan to fool Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
During World War 2, Hitler's Nazi war machine rumbled across Europe and, dominating the countries they faced, the murderous dictator's Blitzkrieg tanks seemed unstoppable.
However, it took just a dead body and some ingenuity from British intelligence services to fool the Fuhrer, a plan inspired from the mind of the creator of 007 himself, Ian Fleming.
The strange and macabre tale from 1943 stars Matthew MacFadyen and Colin Firth playing Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley respectively.
So what was Operation Mincemeat and how did it help change the course of the war?
What was Operation Mincemeat?
Operation Mincemeat was a plan to deceive the German army ahead of an invasion of Italy by Allied forces in World War Two.
On April 30, 1943, a mile from the Southern Spanish shore, British submarine HMS Seraph appeared from the murky depths of the Mediterranean Sea to engage in a top-secret plan.
The underwater vessel released a secret cargo, a human body. It was supposedly that of 'Major William Martin', a Royal Marine who helds some of the war's biggest secrets close to his chest.
But the Major was not real and nor were the plans his cold dead hands were protecting. Major William was actually a Welsh tramp by the name of Glyndwr Michael who died from ingesting rat poison.
When the body washed up on the shore, the Nazi-friendly Spanish authorities immediately informed the Germans, who believed the documents found on the man.
The documents said that the targets for an upcoming invasion on fascist-held land would be Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily, and included letters from a 'fiance' and ticket stubs all as part of the deception.
The information was believed to have gone all the way to Hitler himself and orders were given to double the strength of the troops in Sardinia, while more divisions were sent to Greece and the Balkans.
After invading on July 9, 1943 the Allies secured Sicily in less than a month and the lack of Nazi reinforcements helped the process along the way.
The devilish dreamers behind the deception were Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley. Montagu worked for Naval Intelligence during the war and teamed up with 007 creator Ian Fleming to go through with the "not very nice" idea.
Cholmondeley, an RAF officer working for MI5, then joined the plot.
Daughter of Ewen, Jennifer Montagu, said: "When I was home from boarding school during a half-term break, he sat me down and told the whole story. I was fascinated.
"Looking back I think he rather enjoyed creating Major Martin and identified very much with him."
How can I watch Operation Mincemeat?
Operation Mincemeat, starring Colin Firth, will be available on Netflix from May 11.
The Netflix drama is based on author and historian Ben Macintyre's account of what happened during the secret operation, given the stamp of approval by Winston Churchill himself.
Of Fleming's involvement, Macintyre said: "I think it's no accident, in a way that some of the greatest novelists of the 20th Century were also spies: Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, John Buchan, John Le Carré.
"So much of what spies do is to create a false world and convince someone else that is true."
Writer Michelle Ashford adapted the book to the screen and said: "I love the notion that the whole course of the war was changed by this small group, hunkered down in a smoky, depressing, windowless basement room."
