So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...

Before Orson Welles, who died 40 years ago on October 10, directed his masterpiece "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds."It was a radio broadcast that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The night before Halloween 1938, 87 years ago, a radio broadcast by filmmaker and actor Orson Welles sent shockwaves through the ...

1 Comedian Nikki Glaser Adds New Dates To THE STUNNING TOUR Efforts (exemplified by the use of the chorus) to find a deeper meaning to the War of the Worlds broadcast have always struck me as suspect.

“The best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the ...

In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...