Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Goldhill Home Media
• DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
• Run Time: 134 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00096S2QE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,665 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Two of Hollywood’s most bankable talents, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise, team up in a remake of the classic "The War of the Worlds". This release is by far the most anticipated of the summer. Release Date: 6/29/2005 With this title, you’ll learn the story behind the story with insightful interviews and rare footage that discuss the history of this timeless story – from the novel itself to the most notorious radio broadcast of all time to today’s major blockbuster. You’ll also journey to the mysterious Red Planet and learn about amazing discoveries. Prepare for sleepless nights with this two-disc set!

·Disc 1: The War of the Worlds - 100 Hundred Years of Terror ·Disc 2: Mars – 100 Hundred Years of Discovery

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars War of the Worlds - an historical retrospective, June 29, 2005

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J. A. Dolan (The holy city of Brooklyn) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: War of the Worlds (Documentary) (DVD)

Disc one is an historical retrospective. It's dull. Nothing in it that we didn't know already. Tape quality is very good. Archival footage they could have used they didn't. Not one science fiction writer interviewed. Clips from the 1938 broadcast wasn't used. Instead the narrator tells you about it. Too general.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bore of the Worlds, July 3, 2005

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L. Waid (Meadville, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: War of the Worlds (Documentary) (DVD)

This documentary is a total bore. There are no clips from the movies, no excerpts from the radio program, no interviews with anybody important and the interviews there are go on forever. You won't learn anything you don't already know about H. G. Wells or the "War of the Worlds". Very disappointed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well Done!, August 9, 2005

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Mr. Wells "RV" (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: War of the Worlds (Documentary) (DVD)

I bought this just after I saw the Spielberg film. I must say that overall I liked the DVD set a lot. While I would have liked to hear more of Orson Welles on the 1938 radio show, there was a lot of interesting stuff in disk 1 about Welles and the later panic broadcasts I had never seen. Overall, very interesting and informative.

Disk 2 is a Mars science piece with some amazing animations I have never seen. Overall, I'd have to say that it ranks high when compared to some of the other shows on DVD about Mars. Lots of interesting stuff and be sure to look At the Mars Expedition Rover animation. I don't know who did it, but it rocks.

I'd give them a combined 4 of 5. Next time be sure to get the Welles voice!