| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | D |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | C |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B+ |
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| Video Release: | 21 Nov 2005 |
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Steven Spielberg also entertains alien visitors in his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and his 1982 blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Another H.G. Wells’ novel, The Time Machine, has found it’s way to the big screen at least twice, once in 1960 and as a remake in 2002.
Home Video Extra Features
DVD Release Date: November 21, 2005
UMVD/Dreamworks brings home the War of the Worlds in a wide or a full screen DVD version. But if you are a true fan of this alien invasion, you’ll want to get your tentacles on the 2 Disc Limited Edition—as this is the only one that allows you to attack the production from every angle. Bonus features include:
- Revisiting the Invasion: Introduction with Steven Spielberg
- Featurette: The H. G. Wells Legacy
- Steven Spielberg and the Original War of the Worlds
- Characters: The Family Unit
- Production Diaries: East Coast - Beginning
- Production Diaries: East Coast - Exile
- Production Diaries: West Coast - Destruction
- Production Diaries: West Coast - War
- Designing the Enemy: Tripods and Aliens
- We Are Not Alone
- Production Notes
- Galleries
- Scoring War of the Worlds
Audio Tracks are available in English (Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 ES and Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), and French (Dolby Digital 5.1), with subtitles in English, Spanish and French.
War of the Worlds releases to Blu-ray on June 1, 2010.

Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.