Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Special features: New 4K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New alternate 5.1 soundtrack, created by sound designer Benn Burtt and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio; audio commentary from 2005 featuring fimmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren; Movie Archaeologists, 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; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; an essay by film critic J. Holberman.

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.

Blu-ray; full screen (1.37:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

This is a Blu-ray disc which can only be played on Blu-ray disc players and will not play on standard DVD players.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).