War of the Worlds (2005)

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

How do the crowds react when the aliens appear? Why to they seem to be drawn to the center of a disaster? How does that affect the efforts of the police to maintain control?

Ray is portrayed as a self-centered father with little time for his children. Does his character change during the course of the story? What are his motivations for protecting his children?

Starring as the children’s grandparents in this film, Gene Berry and Ann Robinson played the main characters in the 1950’s version of The War of the Worlds.