Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "electric-current"

1. The Tesla Files (2018– )

Documentary, History, Mystery

Researcher Marc Seifer, astrophysicist Travis Taylor and investigative journalist Jason Stapleton investigate the mysteries surrounding the life and work of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important and eccentric scientists in history.

Stars: James Thornton, Travis Taylor, Jason Stapleton, Marc Seifer

Votes: 461

2. The Thousand Faces of Dunjia (2017)

Not Rated | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A group of warriors protect the world from a monster invasion.

Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Da Peng, Ni Ni, Aarif Lee, Dongyu Zhou

Votes: 1,425 | Gross: $0.12M

3. Shadow (II) (2009)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror

When a young soldier leaves for a mountain biking excursion, he meets the girl of his dreams as well as a group of violent locals who want to see them dead at any cost.

Director: Federico Zampaglione | Stars: Jake Muxworthy, Karina Testa, Ottaviano Blitch, Chris Coppola

Votes: 2,779

4. Inside Planet Earth (2009 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary

A fantastical - but factual - journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Director: Martin Williams | Stars: Richard Lintern, Patrick Stewart

Votes: 286

5. Sham Poo, the Magician (1932)

Passed | 17 min | Comedy, Short

Two goofball tourists in an exotic foreign location flirt with a cigarette girl, annoy a magician and awaken a monster.

Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Roscoe Ates, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Granger, Jerry Mandy

Votes: 13

6. That Little Big Fellow (1927)

11 min | Animation, Short

Telephone current (personified as an animated messenger boy) travels to and fro across telephone wires to demonstrate what happens when a call is made through the late-1920s telephone system.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Dave Fleischer

Votes: 5

7. How the Telephone Talks (1919)

7 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

Animated diagrams and live-action footage show telephone components and illustrate how they are able to transport sound electronically.

Director: E. Dean Parmelee

Votes: 19

8. Silent Gun of the Future (1918)

Documentary, Short

Technical illustrations explain how electric coils and magnetic fields can be used to create a theoretical recoil-free gun.

Director: Walter H. Nirgenau

9. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 147 (1918)

Documentary, Short

Subjects include: "The Silent Gun of the Future", "Czechoslovaks", and a "Bobby Bumps" cartoon.

Director: P.D. Hugon | Stars: Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, Charles Pergler

10. The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode: The Great Filling Station Robbery (1963)

TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, Family

After a series of auto-related thefts, the shadow of suspicion looms ever longer over Jimmy--a youth with a troubled past. How long can Andy rush to Jimmy's defense before his own faith in the boy is shaken?

Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors

Votes: 345

11. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: White Light Fever (1995)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Harlan Hawkes is selfish, rich and very old. A private team of top doctors care for him 24/7. He'll do anything to cheat death. His doctor is working on a treatment that might make Harlan immortal but Death intervenes to keep the balance.

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Bruce Davison, Sonja Smits, William Hickey, Jerry Wasserman

Votes: 510

12. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode: The Last Sunset (1976)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

As the Alphans are planning to explore the planet Ariel, a 'missile' attaches itself to the en route Eagle. Upon returning to Alpha, the 'missile' gives the Alphans a lunar atmosphere. But ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Prentis Hancock

Votes: 329

13. Schoolhouse Rock! (1973–2009)
Episode: Electricity, Electricity (1979)

TV-Y | 4 min | Animation, Short, Family

A dazzling look at how electricity works.

Star: Zachary Sanders

Votes: 41

14. Sabins (2020– )
Episode: Understanding Inductors! (2021)

4 min | Documentary

An inductor is an loop of wire that behaves like a magnet when an electric current passes through the wire. But some of its properties are a bit counter intuitive.

15. Sabins (2020– )
Episode: What is Voltage? (2020)

7 min | Documentary

The concept of voltage is explained followed but the practical application of creating a galvanic cell.

16. The Engineering Mindset (2015– )
Episode: Why are transformers used? (2022)

3 min | Documentary

Transformers permit the conversion of electrical trans mission to high voltage, low current to reduce energy losses in long distance transmission.

Star: Paul Evans

17. Ripper Street (2012–2016)
Episode: Dynamite and a Woman (2013)

TV-MA | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A dangerous terrorist, purportedly a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, escapes from police custody and attacks an MP. In order to apprehend him, Reid sends Flight on an undercover mission to befriend the man's daughter.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, Clive Russell

Votes: 399