The Current War: Director's Cut
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Rival inventors Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse champion differing electrical currents.
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse -- the greatest inventors of the industrial age -- engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, sees fatal flaws in Edison's direct current design. Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.
Benedict Cumberbatchas Thomas Edison
Michael Shannonas George Westinghouse
Nicholas Houltas Nikola Tesla
Katherine Waterstonas Marguerite Erskine
Tuppence Middletonas Mary Edison