The Current War: Director's Cut 2019 Movie

The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas A. Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world. More details

Directors

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch Oliver Powell Sophia Ally Tuppence Middleton Woody Norman Tom Holland

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Biography Drama History world's fair 1893 columbian exposition based on true story lens flare chicago illinois thomas edison character patent application menlo park new jersey j.p. morgan character morse code chester a. arthur character pittsburgh pennsylvania reference to giuseppe verdi trick question train trip phonograph george westinghouse character nikola tesla character westinghouse corporation great barrington massachusetts execution electrocution autograph seeker alternating current direct current sioux city iowa new orleans louisiana fort worth texas grover cleveland character us president wind snow year 1880 voice over narration narrated by character patent american history train looking out a train window lantern man wears a top hat inventor food prologue husband wife relationship mother son relationship mother daughter relationship father son relationship father daughter relationship male secretary characters identified by name on screen little boy little girl money manhattan new york city new york city washington d.c.the white house washington d.c.banker christmas tree map reference to the new york times wall street manhattan new york city reference to a ferry morse code translated on screen horse and carriage looking out a carriage window industrialist newspaper headline newspaper reference to il trovatore the opera reference to the speed of sound electrician train station rivalry mustached man rain horse gun gun pointed at the camera reference to finding a needle in a haystack reference to a barrette kiss fireplace telephone telephone call wealth reference to william tecumseh sherman overhead camera shot father carries his son over his shoulder blackboard map of the united states man wears a derby new york stock exchange cheering applause reference to werner von siemens reference to the siemens dynamo reference to john dixon gibbs reference to lucien gaulard reference to the gaulard gobbs transformer physics schematic drawing man wears eyeglasses reference to paris france handshake hired for a job reference to a wedding night reference to albany new york reference to a boat apology telegraph operator asking for forgiveness stammering laboratory coney island promise camera neuralgia reference to laudaunum candle reference to a headache doctor ill wife reference to jesus christ copper the metal massachusetts electrical pole reference to hiram maxim electrical generator sewing machine technology dynamo the electrical generator reference to michigan reference to a pirate hat reporter news conference the pittsburg current the newspaper newspaper article westinghouse electric company pocket watch reference to north dakota reference to new orleans louisiana reference to fort worth texas reference to sioux city iowa manage man wears a tuxedo lawsuit corkscrew reference to gravity reference to south dakota factory gas reference to a lumber mill reference to seattle washington machine nikola tesla electric light company brain tumor reference to columbus ohio reference to zanesville ohio accidental death death of wife coffin recording machine cigar smoking buffalo new york human rights advocate killing an animal killing a horse capital punishment hanging reference to choking to death reference to decapitation gallows reference to the governor of new york reference to god reference to a fauteuil execution by electricity split screen black and white scene murder husband murders wife bloody face murder confession phonogram gramophone recording reference to rahway new jersey reference to philadelphia pennsylvania reference to neptune the planet immigrant ac dc the electrical currents union electric and manufacturing company reference to alexander graham bell reference to the graphophone reference to chicago illinois billiards table reference to being whipped with a branch reference to being whipped with a leather strap reference to a father beating his son electrical accident killed in an eletrical acident death anger employer employee relationship confederate soldier union soldier reference to the american civil war electricity reference to a bergere reference to a spindle back chair furniture salesman reference to a cockpen electric chair typewriter axe murderer trial mummification pain lawyer scientist cruel and unusual punishment courtroom sketch artist justice fame revolver lie piano piano player letter incandescent lightbulb reference to bread reference to isaac newton columbia college location in text on screen motor lecture knocking on a door engine tea hotel eviction hotel room reference to deldomico's restaurant husband rests his head on his wife's lap theft reference to breakfast serb drink drinking elevator reference to japanese bamboo reference to pie business merger flashback flash forward reference to the chicago daily news the newspaper reference to a remington revolver gunshot film projector man rests his chin on another man's head eating reading a newspaper reading a newspaper aloud chinese woman calligraphy reference to eadweard muybridge fence boy audience reference to wolfgang amadeus mozart reference to a garden legacy reference to the new yorker hotel year 1911 reference to the american institute of electical engineers electrical engineer reference to the kinetograph reference to the kinetoscope film history reference to little egypt the dancer niagara falls 1880s 19th century ammunition manufacturing breaking a lightbulb edison electric company electrocuting an animal general electric reference to a lightning storm epilogue 1890s reference to p.t. barnum reference to the eighth amendment of the u.s. constitution light bulb close up of eyes close up of lips close up of mouth three word title

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