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Story of Electricity

Story of Electricity (2011)

Documentary | UK

Director: Jon Eastman, Alex Freeman, Tim Usborne

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Rating: 8.5/10

It’s hard to imagine life without electricity. But it was not very long ago that we began to understand what it is exactly. Discover the history and look into the future of electricity in this three-part series presented by the theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili.

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