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The Current War (2018)

★ 6.7 · 1,149 ratings on TMDB

Power changes everything

The Current War poster★ 6.7

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

DirectorAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
CastBenedict Cumberbatch, Conor MacNeill, Damien Molony, Katherine Waterston, Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon
GenresDrama, History
The emergence reading

The Current War keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Shared director or cast.

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