Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

DVD Special Edition Features: New 4K digital restoration -- New alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt -- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren -- Movie Archeologists, a new program on the film's visual and sound effects featuring Burtt and visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron -- From the Archive, a new program about the film's restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas -- Audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970 -- The Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film -- The Mercury Theatre on the air radio play of The War of the Worlds from 1938, adapted by Howard Koch and directed and narrated by Orson Welles -- Radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H.G. Wells, author of the 1897 novel The War of the Worlds -- Trailer -- PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman.

Gene Barry, Ann Robinson.

Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.

Rating: G.

DVD, Full screen (1.37:1) ; Mono.

English dialogue ; (SDH) subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.