View company contact information for War of the Worlds on IMDbPro. [1]

View company contact information for The War of the Worlds on IMDbPro. [2]

War of the Worlds delivers on the thrill and paranoia of H.G. Wells’ classic novel. [3]

It took him a little while, but he managed to pluck a file out of the morass of red tape over at the Pentagon, and this file reveals the truth of the Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast in 1938. [4]

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, War of the Worlds movie is the motion picture event of 2005. [5]

War of the Worlds and related imagery are copyright by Paramount. [6]

War of the Worlds is a 2005 live action science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells ‘ novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. [7]

The film also stars Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, and Tim Robbins. [3]

On October 30th, 1938, the United States experienced mass hysteria–most pronounced on the east coast in New York and New Jersey–in response to a radio broadcast put on by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater On The Air. [...] From our analysis of eyewitness reports conducted on the 50th Anniversary of Orson Welles’ broadcast of “War of the Worlds”, it appears that in 1938 it was just a scouting mission, a group ahead of the main alien invasion to evaluate Earth’s technological level and what to expect on arrival. [4]

The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested to many listeners that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. [8]

Despite the fact that the film focuses exclusively on the harrowing experiences of this somewhat dysfunctional family, in a very basic way it preserves the elements of the original novel. [1]

The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians. [2]

The public reaction has prompted decades of research into mass hysteria, been used as a model by the military around the world to design information warfare against enemy troops and civilian populace, and used as the most compelling reason to protect the public from the knowledge of the presence of aliens on Earth. [4]

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Sources:
[1] War of the Worlds (2005)
[2] The War of the Worlds (1953)
[3] Rotten Tomatoes: War of the Worlds (2005)
[4] War of the Worlds: The Broadcast
[5] War of the Worlds (2005)
[6] The Complete War of the Worlds Web Site
[7] War of the Worlds (2005 film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[8] The War of the Worlds (radio) – Wikipedia