Battery Man (2012)

イーサン・ホークが孤高の発明家、ニコラ・テスラを演じた伝記映画。舞台は1884年。移民としてニューヨークへやってきたテスラは、憧れのエジソンのもとで働き始めるのだが……。天才であるがゆえに孤独な人生を歩んだ、テスラの半生を描く。

19世紀、アメリカは電気の誕生による新時代を迎えようとしていた。白熱電球の事業化を成功させたトーマス・エジソンは天才発明家と崇められ、大統領からの仕事も平気で断る傲慢な男だった。裕福な実業家ジョージ・ウェスティングハウスは、大量の発電機が必要なエジソンの＂直流＂による送電方式より、遠くまで電気を送れて安価である＂交流＂による送電方式の方が優れていると考えていた。若手発明家のテスラも、効率的な＂交流＂の活用を提案するが、エジソンに一蹴されてしまう。 そんな中、ウェスティングハウスは＂交流＂での実演会を成功させ、話題をさらう。そのニュースにエジソンは激怒、＂交流＂による送電方式は危険で人を殺すと、ネガティブキャンペーンで世論を誘導していく・・・ こうして世紀の＂電流戦争＂が幕を開けた！訴訟や駆け引き、裏工作が横行する中、ウェスティングハウスはエジソンと決裂したテスラに近づく──果たしてこのビジネスバトルを制するのはどちらか──！？

In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.

スパイダーマンとしてニューヨークの平和を守り、グウェンとの関係も好調なピーター。だが、旧友のハリー・オズボーンがニューヨークに戻ってきたのを機に、充足していた生活が微妙に変化していく。そんな折、サイ型パワードスーツを装着したライノ、人間発電機エレクトロという敵が出現。苦闘を強いられる中、追い打ちをかけるように怪人グリーン・ゴブリンとなったハリーが襲い掛かってくる。

This program recounts the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Many of his achievements are still attributed to contemporaries Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi. Tesla's surprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings, supplemented by rare photographs and re-creations.

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world. His fertile but undisciplined imagination was the source of his genius but also his downfall, as the image of Tesla as a mad scientist came to overshadow his reputation as a brilliant innovator.

Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Dr. Bill Matthews is struck by lighting. While recovering at the hospital where he works, he begins an intimate relationship with Dr. Craig Murphy, who invites Bill to join a strange group of lightning survivors.

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed oncoming advent of nuclear power.

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Brilliant documentary showing how British Insulated Cables can electrify your home!

In this pioneering documentary, one of the earliest Soviet sound films, Shub shot a contemporary chronicle of the progress of establishing electricity across the Soviet nation, a struggle spearheaded by the Komsomol.

Minyoung is a shy high school girl suffering from depression and bulimia. She is mercilessly bullied by her classmates, especially the sadistic Taeyong and his posse. One day, she is rescued by a sympathetic classmate who introduces her to transhumanism, a process where electrical shocks to the brain cause a person to "wake up to reality" through electrical baptism. Now, fully empowered, she plans revenge for the boys that have brutally bullied her. But when Taeyong turns up murdered, Minyoung must travel back in time using the Tesla coil to reveal the killer... even if the killer might be herself.