The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film directed by Byron Haskin and based on the 1898 novel of the same name by H.G. Wells. The film follows the story of an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth by Martians and the attempts of the human race to survive
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The Martians intend to eliminate mankind and conquer Earth because their own older and smaller world has reached the "last stage of exhaustion". It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann.