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A documentary about the laying of the first transatlantic telephone line.
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
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Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
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Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
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One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
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