
Birthday:
09-21-1866
Deathday:
08-13-1946 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Bromley, Kent, England, UK
Biography
Herbert George Wells, known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2014 star_border 6.7
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The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
BBC: The Voice of Britain
Act like Self
event1935
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An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.
War of the Worlds
Novel
event2005 star_border 6.5
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Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
The Invisible Man
Novel
event1933 star_border 7.5
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After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
Island of Lost Souls
Novel
event1932 star_border 6.9
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An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
The Time Machine
Novel
event2002 star_border 6.3
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Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
The Time Machine
Novel
event1960 star_border 7.3
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A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Things to Come
Screenplay
event1936 star_border 6.4
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The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Novel
event1996 star_border 4.9
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A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
The Marvelous Visit
Novel
event1974 star_border 5.1
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In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Novel
event1977 star_border 5.5
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A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Dead of Night
Original Story
event1945 star_border 7.2
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Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Novel
event2005 star_border 5.3
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In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
Invisible Agent
Novel
event1942 star_border 5.8
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The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
The Shape of Things to Come
Novel
event1979 star_border 4
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Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus.
The Food of the Gods
Novel
event1976 star_border 5
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Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Empire of the Ants
Story
event1977 star_border 4.9
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A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
Village of the Giants
Novel
event1965 star_border 3.5
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"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.
The Passionate Friends
Novel
event1949 star_border 6.9
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A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Kipps
Novel
event1921
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Sacked clerk inherits £3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.
Country of Blind
Novel
event2023
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Abhimanyu, an expert mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of "non-seeing" people - claimed to have been in existence for fifteen generations and cut off from the rest of the world. Abhimanyu decides quickly that "in country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". He fails in his efforts and gets trapped instead. - Adapted from the 1904 story of H. G. Wells of the same name.
The Invisible Chronicles
Story
event2009 star_border 2.4
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A brilliant young college student named Griffin goes to his psychologist, Dr. Kemp, with a strange and frightening tale. A few days earlier, at the local university, he made an incredible breakthrough with his experiments involving invisibility. Not content to experiment on inanimate objects, he injected his invisibility serum into himself. At first, he reveled in achieving his life-long dream of becoming invisible ... but once he realized that the effects were permanent, his harmless excursions into eavesdropping and voyeurism turned murderous. Now, his enemies will suffer and even his friends are no longer safe as he hunts them down, one by one, within the confines of the deserted university campus.
The First Men in the Moon
Novel
event1919 star_border 6
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The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.
A Trip to the Moon
Novel
event1902 star_border 7.9
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Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Writer
event1936 star_border 5.7
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An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Le Voleur invisible
Novel
event1909 star_border 6.4
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A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author…
The Invisible Man
Novel
event1985 star_border 5.9
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Based upon the famous novel by H.G.Wells. A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make things invisible. Since he has no money to continue his research, he decides to perform his only experiment on himself. After becoming invisible, Griffin has a lot of trouble trying to conceal this from other people.
The Magic Shop
Writer
event1980 star_border 4
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A boy and his father enter a magic shop where the magic may be all too real
War of the Servers
Novel
event2007 star_border 6.4
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When strange beings called Mingebags invade the servers of the popular game Garry's Mod, one player must try to survive while searching for his friends amid the chaos and war.
The Invisible Man
Novel
event1977 star_border 8.5
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Made for Russian television version of the Invisible Man, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
The History of Mr. Polly
Writer
event1949 star_border 7.4
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Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Dr. Moreau
Author
event2022 star_border 7
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Dr. Moreau is an abstract horror short, adapted from H.G.Wells' classic novel, that will invite the viewer to board on a tangible journey to the borders of science, where the differences between nature and humanity are blurred.
Have You Got Any Castles?
Characters
event1938 star_border 6.4
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Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.
The First Men in the Moon
Novel
event2010 star_border 5.6
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Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.
The Dream of Another
Short Story
event1981 star_border 7
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A young student is visited by a mysterious and wealthy philosopher with an offer to make the student his heir .
The Time Machine
Novel
event1978 star_border 4.7
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A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
War of the Worlds
Novel
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Based on the classic alien invasion novel by H.G. Wells.
The Invisible Man Returns
Characters
event1940 star_border 6.2
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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Kipps
Novel
event1941 star_border 5.6
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A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
Eyes in the Trees
Novel
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A video journalist and his film crew embark on a journey into an isolated forest, only to find their excursion turned into a fight for survival for not just themselves, but the entire human race.
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
Novel
event2005 star_border 6.1
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This movie is a faithful adaptation of H. G. Well's book, set in the 19th century.
Daydreams
Writer
event1928
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A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.
The Tonic
Story
event1928
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The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.
Hollow Man
Novel
event2000 star_border 5.9
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Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
War of the Worlds: The Attack
Novel
event2023 star_border 5.1
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Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
The Wheels of Chance
Novel
event1922 star_border 5
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A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
The Passionate Friends
Novel
event1922
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An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Story
event1951 star_border 6.4
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As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Characters
event1944 star_border 5.6
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A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
The Battle of Grovers Mill
Original Story
event2024
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An aspiring journalist faces the unimaginable when news of a nearby crash site comes over the radio. Based on “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells and the Orson Welles / Mercury Theatre on the Air radio play of the same name.
First Men in the Moon
Original Story
event1964 star_border 6.3
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The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Prawdziwie magiczny sklep
Short Story
event1970
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A father takes his son to a truly magical toy store.
Fear the Invisible Man
Original Story
event2023 star_border 6.7
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A young British widow shelters an old medical school colleague, a man who has somehow turned himself invisible. As his isolation grows and his sanity frays, he schemes to create a reign of wanton murder and terror across the city.
How to Lose Weight
Author
event1986 star_border 5
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Based on the story "The Truth About Pycraft" by H.G. Wells.
The Magic Shop
Writer
event1982
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A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic.
Aadhi Raat Ke Baad
Story
event1965 star_border 6
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A scientist renowned for creating a potion that makes him invisible is framed for the murder of his prospective father-in-law.
The Invisible Man
Novel
event2020 star_border 7.1
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When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
War of the Worlds: Goliath
Novel
event2012 star_border 5
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Fifteen years have passed since the Martians’ first failed invasion of Earth. The year is 1914, and at the eve of World War I, Mars launches a sudden and more devastating second attack. A small defense force, A.R.E.S., is Earth’s only hope. The giant A.R.E.S. battle tripod GOLIATH is called up to war, and its young multinational crew must face their fears in their struggle to save Humanity from the alien invaders.
The War of the Worlds
Novel
event1953 star_border 6.8
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The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
The Invisible Man
Writer
event1975 star_border 8.3
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Inspired by the original 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, the pilot film depicts Daniel Westin working for a company called the Klae Corporation, which is doing experiments in teleportation. He discovers the side effect of his work is the ability to turn objects invisible.
The Invisible Man
Characters
event2015 star_border 10
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A leader from organized crime is targeted by an invisible man.
Time Kid
Novel
event2003 star_border 6.2
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An adaptation of H.G Well's Time Machine for Nickleodon. Tom's scientist father, overwhelmed with grief over the loss of his wife, invents a time machine. He attempts to go in to the future to find a cure that he can take back in time to his wife, so that she might live. He never comes back, only his time machine. So Tom goes into the future to rescue his dad.
Mad Monster Party?
Characters
event1967 star_border 6.5
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When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!
The Door in the Wall
Author
event1990
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The hero of the film, Wallace, is trying to reconcile the dream of a world of beautiful souls and human relationships with the reality of a prosperous bourgeois.
The Invisible Man Appears
Novel
event1949 star_border 6.2
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Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the "Tears of Amour."
Invisible Man
Novel
event1954 star_border 6.4
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When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Characters
event1957 star_border 5.8
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A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?
The Erotic Time Machine
Writer
event2002 star_border 5
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31st century scientist Miss Manners has developed a method of traveling through time, but it increases lust in the time traveler. So, she views erotic scenes from each period of time.
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells
Short Story (4 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.4
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The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on short stories by H. G. Wells. The four-part series of 30-minute episodes was commissioned for broadcast by Sky Arts. The series is hosted by Ray Winstone as Wells.
The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells
Short Story (3 ep.)
event2001 star_border 7.4
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On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of legendary literary figure, Herbert George Wells. Expecting to hear of the events and people who formed his prophetic imagination, she is informed of a world in which known scientific boundaries no longer exist. It begins a half-century earlier at London's Imperial College of Science where Wells meets Jane Robbins, a scientist equally fascinated by unnatural phenomenon, and a woman who immediately captures Wells' heart. Through midnight experiments and secret investigations into the paranormal, through the follies of chance and the miracles of fate, Wells and Robbins find themselves slipping into whirlpools of time, both past and present.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Novel (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 7.8
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A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
War of the Worlds
Novel (9 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.3
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When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do not have to wait long. Within days, mankind is all but wiped out by a devastating attack; pockets of humanity are left in an eerily deserted world. As aliens hunt and kill those left alive, the survivors ask a burning question – who are these attackers and why are they hell-bent on our destruction?
The Devil's Game
Novel (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5
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A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.
The DuPont Show of the Week
Short Story (1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 6
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The DuPont Show of the Week is an American anthology drama series which aired for three seasons on NBC from September 17, 1961 to August 30, 1964.
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