F is for Fake
Flix, 8:00 p.m. ET
Released in 1973, this rarely televised documentary was written and directed by Orson Welles, who hones in on two famous fakers: art forger Elmyr de Hory, and de Hory’s biographer, Clifford Irving, who also concocted a famous forgery of his own – a false autobiography of Howard Hughes. And while probing these two celebrated cases, Welles also admits to some fakery of his own, including, of course, his infamous radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which had hostile Martians touching down, and vaporizing citizens, in Grovers Mill, NJ.