10+ Best Movies About Electricity

Can you imagine a world without electricity? Without electricity, we would still be using fire as our light; relying on stones as tools; and relying on our strength to work on impossible things. We would still be stuck in a certain era with no progress at all.

Today’s generation would be living impossibly without the help of electricity.  Without it we wouldn’t be as progressive as we sought to be. Science is indeed fascinating! Thanks to the people behind these genius innovations, everything works as easy as 1-2-3!

Light up your curiosity by WATTching these awesome movies about electricity:

Movies About Electricity

The Current War

The Current War is the story of the rivalry between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century. Thomas Edison dazzles the world. But George Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison’s direct current design.

Igniting the infamous war of currents, they bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current.

Tesla

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world.

Life On The Line

In this tense thriller starring John Travolta and Kate Bosworth, a team of Texas linemen races to install miles of cable before a deadly lightning storm destroys the power grid.

City of Ember

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights.

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Hosted by Professor Jim Al-Khalili, this three-part docuseries is the electrifying story of mankind’s quest to master nature's most mysterious force: electricity.

The Trigger Effect

A gripping story of a mysterious power failure that leads to the social breakdown of a major city, where ordinary rules no longer apply.

Benjamin Franklin: A Film by Ken Burns

Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.

“Write things worth reading,” he said in Poor Richard’s Almanack, “or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin did both.

Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story

Chef Eduardo Garcia went for a hike in Montana and was shocked by 2400 Volts of electricity when he touched a dead bear. He lost an arm, ribs, muscle mass, and nearly his life, but more important than what he lost is what he found.

Powder

Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do extraordinary things.

Blackout

This ensemble thriller tells the story of four college students, an expectant couple, and a lone survival expert who are confronted by a global blackout that forces them to endure the worst of human nature as society falls apart around them.

The Road

In the years following a world-shattering apocalyptic event, a father and son travel on foot through the charred remains of North America, struggling to survive on a quest to reach the ocean.

What are you waiting for? Watch these movies in your warmly lit living room before the screen blacks out!

People Also Ask:

What is the modern movie about electricity?

• The Current War: Director’s Cut (2017)

What is the movie about all the electricity going out?

• Revolution (2012)
• Into the Forest (2015)
• Waterworld (1995)
• The Postman (1997)
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
• Mad Max (1979)
• The Road (2019)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Lord of the flies (1963 and 1990)

What is the movie where the world has no electricity?

• Messenger of the Future: The Postman

What movie is based on Thomas Edison?

• Edison, the Man

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