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Orson Welles’ free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr’s biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles’ own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience.

1.92GB | 1h 28m | 934×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/856EA29CDBB87E3/F_For_Fake_(1973)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language(s):English, French, Spanish+commentary
Subtitles:English

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Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.

A bewitching film about Nikola Tesla (Peter Bozovic), one of the world’s most gifted but unknown scientific discoverers, the genius who ushered in the age of electricity, who was born in 1856 in the village of Smiljan, in the province of Lika, Croatia—then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Tesla’s inventions were stolen but whose name nevertheless remains legendary for his overwhelming scientific contributions. He is quoted as saying “Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”

The biopic attempts to clear up the mystery that surrounds him and his over 700 patents and numerous discoveries in electricity. They include some of the following: design of the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls, “space energy,” discovery of radio waves, builder of the first hydroelectric dam, inventor of the remote control, radar tracking for the military, x-ray, conductor of the first wireless transmission experiments at the Colorado Springs Experimental Station in 1899-1900, the Tesla Coil, the fluorescent light, receiver of unidentified signals from outer space, innovative user of the ionosphere for scientific purposes, converser with the dead, and his plans for the emerging science of free energy.

The film begins with his mysterious death in a NYC hotel in 1943, where the impoverished inventor wasn’t found until three days after his death. It left open the possibility that the Nazis had something to do with it. All his NYC notes were stolen, only his ashes were preserved for a museum in Belgrade.

A flashback takes us back to Tesla’s entry in 1884 as a young man in the United States arriving from Paris with four cents in his pocket, and his visit with the arrogantly tyrannical Thomas Edison in his lab. Edison hired Tesla but is hostile to his idea of alternating-current and rigidly defends his direct-current, already in use but soon to be proven inferior to Tesla’s discovery which was used to light the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Through his contact with Edison, the workaholic bachelor met lifetime friends Catherine and Bob Johnson–the editor of Century Magazine. He soon came to the attention of George Westinghouse, founder of the Westinghouse Electric Company, and will sign a contract with him for $10 million as Westinghouse buys his patent for alternating-current. When Westinghouse was being squeezed by Edison and General Electric, Tesla tore up his contract to save Westinghouse’s hide all because he felt honored that Westinghouse believed in his work. In 1900, Tesla began construction on Long Island of a wireless broadcasting tower. The project was funded with $150,000 capital from financier J. Pierpont Morgan (Orson Welles), but the project was abandoned when Morgan withdrew his financial support. Not interested in money Tesla worked to bring a clean and free energy source to the world, but was sabotaged by tycoon J.P. Morgan who was afraid that Tesla might actually have invented a way to give the world a free energy source. In Tesla’s later years he wasn’t able to find anyone to finance his projects and died with his ideas remaining on the drawing board.

Many stole from the non-competitive Tesla, including Marconi who took credit for inventing the radio from ideas he stole while allowed full access to Tesla’s lab. Tesla was also known for his eccentric behavior, refusing to shake hands with anyone and washing his hands frequently.

1.60GB | 1 h 44 min | 704×528 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0BF400DD5DF3971/The.Secret.of.Nikola.Tesla.1980.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English, Serbian
Subtitles:English hardsubbed for Serbian dialogue

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The story of a legendary director named J.J. “Jake” Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood from years of semi-exile in Europe, with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie, also titled “The Other Side of the Wind”.

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It’s a film about an unfinished film – and it looks as if it may never be finished. The Other Side Of The Wind was made by Orson Welles in the early 1970s. The New York Times published a story in late 2014 suggesting that the film would soon be ready. In 2015, a crowdfunding campaign raised more than $400,000 (£304,000) for the project. Earlier this year, there were reports that Netflix was ready to put up $5m to fund the completion of the movie and to distribute it worldwide.

In The Other Side Of The Wind, John Huston plays Jake Hannaford, a macho, Hemingway-like movie director trying to resurrect his career. Welles claimed shooting was more or less completed by 1972 but production carried on for several years after that. Iranian co-financier Mehdi Bushehri (brother-in-law of the late Shah of Iran) argued with Welles over money and reportedly wouldn’t let the film be distributed until he was reimbursed.

1.53GB | 2 h 2 min | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/849A75F8994335C/The.Other.Side.of.the.Wind.2018.REPACK.NF.WEB-DL.DD5.1.x264-NTG.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, English SDH, Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Chinese

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