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Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

05/05/2008

BBC One - War of the Worlds

Tom Cruise stars in a remake of the 1953 adaptation of HG Wells's classic novel.

Remake of the 1953 adaptation based on HG Wells's classic novel about a dock worker's fight to get his children to safety when merciless aliens attack Earth.

Science fiction remake of the 1953 adaptation of HG Wells's classic novel about a dock worker's fight to get his children to safety when merciless aliens attack Earth. 

As the family race through the streets of New York, they find themselves being chased by giant tripods while alien vessels open fire on the retreating crowd, incinerating everything that gets in the way.

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