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Alderney, 1964. Agnes works alone as a switchboard operator in the telephone exchange. When she receives a strange call from Shirley, suffering from dementia and unable to clearly articulate what is happening around her, there's a blood curdling scream down the line, and the call cuts. Worried, Agnes sets about gleaning information from other callers in an attempt to piece together what's happened. Things soon take a turn for the worse when she realises...

A girl working for a telephone answering service takes an interest in one of her clients, a playwright.

The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a simpler time that was far from simple. In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business... Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping....

Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.

A young model's chance meeting with an unusual stranger leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy.

"Based on actual phone messages and testimonials. This sci-fi movie explores phenomena from victims of mind control research"--Container.

When their neighbors the Hamms announce that they've "gone online" by buying a telephone, Mama excitedly follows suit. But will the lure of the telephone be too much of a distraction for this sweetly old-fashioned family? Fresh from their adventure with their new electric car, Mama decides that the family needs a telephone to keep up with the changing times, and daughter Frances could not be more thrilled. But not all the Tweedles are convinced. Son...

The fascinating biography of the famed inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell.

"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself...