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The Professor and the Madman (2019)

Movie · History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller · ⭐ 7.1/10 · 2h 4m

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

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