Product Details

• Actors: Various
• 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
• Rating: 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.com Sales Rank: #125,728 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars War of the Worlds - an historical retrospective, June 30, 2005

By	J. A. Dolan (The holy city of Brooklyn) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bore of the Worlds, July 4, 2005

By	L. Waid (Meadville, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Set, #2 Best, December 13, 2005

By	Gloria Lum - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Got this despite a couple of so-so reviews... and was impressed with both disks. I am not a fanatic about The War of the Worlds, so maybe it's a bit different for me (if there are any errors in the historical piece, I didn't see them). Enjoyed the history of Wells. Lots of trivia, some more interesting that others but all worthwhile.

Disk 2, the science of Mars stuff ("100 Years of Exploration"), was really good. Best Mars doc I have seen anywhere- including some of the cable offerings. For my money, the inexpensive cost of the set is worth it for that disk alone.

Remember, YMMV.

GL