The $12M Contract Tesla Tore Up and Died With 33 Cents

Nikola Tesla invented the modern AC power grid and died broke with 33 cents in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. This documentary traces how he quit Edison over a $50,000 promise, sold his AC patents to Westinghouse for $60,000 plus royalties, then tore up a $12 million royalty to save the company. It covers the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the 1895 Niagara Falls plant, 300+ patents, the Wardenclyffe Tower gamble, his final years feeding pigeons, the FBI seizure of 80 trunks, and the 1943 Supreme Court radio ruling.