Tube Wars is the true story of Philo Farnsworth, the 14 year old farm boy who invented television while plowing his family's fields in Utah. His struggle to build the most influential technology of the 20th century pits him against David Sarnoff, the chairman of RCA, one of the most powerful corporations in America. The two men are ultimately bound by money, ambition, a belief in the transformational power of technology, and a race to be known forever as the Father of Television.