The War of the Worlds
The movie is about the attack of a small California town by Martians. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon.
June 27, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 January 1906
9 September 1914, Pasadena, California, USA
9 December 1897, Falmouth, Kentucky, USA
8 June 1912, Berlin, Germany
19 December 1901, Missouri, USA
1 January 1910, New York City, New York, USA
1 November 1904, Antwerp, Belgium
6 November 1914
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
9 July 1906, Denver, Colorado, USA
February 17, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA
1 October 1897, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
October 9, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA
March 16, 1918 in Richmond, New York, USA
20 March 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
22 June 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
17 November 1905, Mito, Japan
January 5, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
August 12, 1916 in Biddeford, Maine, USA
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
May 27, 1900 in Cupar, Scotland, UK
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
17 May 1871, Heidelberg, Germany
July 4, 1883 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
November 4, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
June 08, 2007
Though it's bogged down by a stiff cast, a yawn-inspiring conventional romance, and a sappy religiosity, it remains a landmark in the history of special effects.
April 05, 2006
For a movie that already succeeded in scaring the Grape Nehi out of every ten-year-old in the audience, how disquieting it must have been for the Cold War-agitated grownups to witness U.S. might, tanks and A-bombs alike, brushed away helpless...
March 06, 2006
peculiarly fifties-bound
March 02, 2008
classic
January 26, 2006
Too bad about the wooden cast, the tackily conventional romance, and a draggy religious message; but at least, given the time it was made, it isn't imbued with Cold War hysteria.
January 01, 2011
Some grisly and scary parts. Not for young 'uns.
December 06, 2005
A half-century after its creation, the film's best moments are still so enjoyably unnerving that they easily carry a viewer through the necessary but inevitably dated exposition.
June 08, 2007
War of the Worlds is a socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation of the H.G. Wells novel.
February 22, 2008
Definitely a sci-fi classic from the 1950s...great George Pal effects.
October 31, 2006
Mind those heat rays!
October 03, 2011
Understandably well-remembered, but its status as a high classic seems more incidental than earned.
June 08, 2007
As the perfect crystallization of 50s ideology the film would be fascinating enough, but the special effects in this 1953 George Pal production also achieve a kind of dark, burnished apocalyptic beauty.
