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The Professor and the Madman

The incredible true story that defined our world.

Rating 7.1 / 10Release March 7, 2019Runtime 124 min

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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