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- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.Very good movie in which Tesla in not central but important
David Bowie play Nikola Tesla ;-) - DirectorSlavoljub Stefanovic-RavasiStarsSvetozar CvetkovicVladislava MilosavljevicVarja DjukicIn America, Nikola Tesla doesn't want to make compromise and capitalize on his inventions, rather choosing poverty, loneliness and working in peace instead.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsPetar BozovicOrson WellesOja KodarLife and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.Fiction - Biography
With Orson Welles as banking baron J.P. Morgan
Some bad acting but pretty accurate - StarsMustafa NadarevicRade SerbedzijaSpiro GuberinaThis series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.
- StarsRade SerbedzijaNikola Tesla... forgotten scientist who set the path to our future.
- DirectorLee PepperStarsJohn AmmermanFrank BrennanPaul CilianoA strung-out radio DJ searches for answers in an alternate universe with the inventor of radio himself, Nikola Tesla. This unlikely pairing heals old wounds and allows Tesla to reclaim his power, going head-to-head with titans of industry and arch rivals Edison, Marconi, and JP Morgan.
- DirectorJeremiah WarrenNikola Tesla: genius, scientists, inventor. This short entertaining story tells the life of the man who has been forgotten by history, and eclipsed by the inferior Edison.Documentary - Biography
- DirectorShimako SatoStarsTakeshi KaneshiroTakako MatsuTôru NakamuraSet in a fictional Japanese city in 1949, a master criminal hones in on his latest victim.Fiction - Reference
All the action revolve around the chase for a massive Tesla Coil in an alternate history where second world war didn't happened - DirectorJoseph SikorskiStarsSean YoungEd Begley Jr.Michael LernerThe enigmatic life of electrical genius Nikola Tesla unravels through a posthumous F.B.I. investigation into his particle beam research, including a new super weapon called the "death ray".Fiction - Biography
The production made a $33,333 donation to Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to save Tesla's Wardenclyffe lab. - DirectorJim JarmuschStarsBill MurrayTom WaitsRoberto BenigniA series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.Fiction - Reference
In the segment "Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil" with The White Stripes : reference to Nikola Tesla's work - CreatorDamian KindlerStarsAmanda TappingRobin DunneChristopher HeyerdahlModern society's evolution involves stem cells, gene therapy, transplants, and cloning, but also exposes the existence of monsters that hold the key to our race's future.Fiction - Reference
One character is named Nikola Tesla and appear in 17 episodes (2008-2011) - DirectorJustin GullettStarsJim MeskimenGia SkovaDan van HusenA unique factual depiction of Nikola Tesla's life from his early adulthood to his eventual arrival to America in 1886, examining his relationships and interactions with some of history's most important and controversial people including Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, J.P. Morgan, Mark Twain, J. Edgar Hoover, and Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi regime. The story reveals the tragic secret that was behind Tesla's relentless drive to invent the most dangerous device to mankind and many facts and truths not previously known such as Tesla's romantic life which was thought to be none existent which is not true and reveals many of Tesla inventions that were suppressed from the world for over half a century and only now are widely used. The film goes into overdrive action with the introduction of fictional character "John Watt" from the future in 2013. John is a 21-year-old computer sciences student who by fate comes upon Tesla's greatest invention kept secret from the world, the Time Radio. Through this remarkable invention, John is able to communicate with Tesla in the past and experience a world of mystery, intrigue and conspiracy, a world that is shaping the future, John's present. The radio emits a signal like none other in world and is soon picked up by NSA radio scanners which set off alarms as the signals are highly encrypted and unbreakable. Suspecting that a sophisticated terrorist group is behind the encrypted signals the NSA joins forces with the FBI to locate the source but what the NSA doesn't know is that certain people in the FBI know more about the signals then they are willing to share. John and his girlfriend Sara narrowly escape capture, realizing how the radio could be used to contact the past to change the future and unable to bring himself to destroy the radio John and Sara find themselves on the run with the radio from the NSA and FBI all while in contact with Tesla in the past.
- DirectorRoman A. TolicStarsNikola TeslaRoman A. TolicCumhur DursunFilm that goes beyond the boundaries of science. Film between a documentary and wonder. Film about the encounter with the "reincarnation" of Nikola Tesla.
- DirectorBranislav BrkichA fairytale about dreams.