The Professor and the Madman

The incredible true story that defined our world.

A thoughtful historical drama about two men—a professor and an institutionalized doctor—whose unlikely collaboration on the Oxford English Dictionary becomes a meditation on redemption, obsession, and human connection.

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.