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 in October 1985, directed his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that marked ...

There might not be a more misunderstood moment in the 20th century than Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. Pop culture has continuously repeated the story of the radio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orson Welles' trickery during his 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast — and newspapers' response to it — is an early lesson in ...

Step back in time to October 30, 1938, and relive the legendary broadcast that sent the nation into panic! This immersive 90-minute production (with no intermission) recreates the infamous radio drama ...

I wrote a couple of weeks back about the funky Atlas District/H Street scene in Washington, and promised I'd be back. I have done (as the British would say), this time at another house, the H Street ...

“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 ...