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Ah!

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Marvellous!

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It can't be.

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And yet...

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- Vera!
- William?

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Vera, have you seen it?
Have you looked at Mars this evening?

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Yes, I have.

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There's a great light
on the illuminated part of the disc.

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It's like a puff of flame,
bursting from the planet.

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The Society's in raptures.
I've just left them.

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Ah, what can it mean?

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- Life, do you think?
- Don't be absurd.

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Must I remind you
how unlikely it is for evolution

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to have taken place
on two adjacent planets?

15
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No.

16
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But a volcano,
perhaps a lightning storm!

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It is possible, William.
Think of it just a moment.

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Think of what?

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Mars receives barely half
the light and heat of Earth.

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Even at the equator at noon,
it's colder than our coldest winter.

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What could live?

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Something else perhaps.

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Something, something older.

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If Mars is colder now,
then once it was hotter.

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It's cooled, and before we did here,

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so maybe life began before us too,
and advanced before us.

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We'd be like monkeys to them.

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The stuff of dreams, Vera,
of fancy, of femininity.

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Mars's oceans have shrunk.

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Its snow-caps regularly melt
and devastate its temperatures.

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If there was ever life, my dear,
it's at the last of its exhaustion.

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Well, perhaps it is.

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It's a volcano.

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- Such a flash of light.
- Indeed.

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Perhaps a storm.

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Well, then, what a storm!

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My, my! Vera, come quickly!

38
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We should leave!

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Mars is no longer capable
of sustaining life.

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Our water is depleted.

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Temperatures increase annually,
while our populations plummet.

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Efforts to stabilise
the atmosphere have failed.

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We have arrived at
the only remaining course of action,

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the conquest and occupation of Earth.

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- Earth.
<i>- Earth.</i>

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Earth is abundant with the natural resources
our ancestors squandered.

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The environment will seem uncomfortable,
but not inhibitive.

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The problem is, of course, the humans.

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- The humans.
<i>- The humans.</i>

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They have developed
primitive intelligence,

51
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but their young society remains structured
around perpetual conquest and conflict.

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- Conflict.
<i>- Conflict.</i>

53
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A rapid offensive to their social
and economic heart

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should prevent significant opposition.

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- Opposition.
<i>- Opposition.</i>

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The means for this attack
are already being realised.

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- Realised.
<i>- Realised.</i>

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A large scale hydrogen accelerator
will be constructed

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to launch suspension pods carrying
the assault forces.

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We have not required such destructive
weaponry in over 5,000 years

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but modifications
to our current technologies

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should overwhelm
the inferior human defences.

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- Defences.
<i>- Defences.</i>

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It is time for Mars to thrive again,
on Earth's young, unprotected soil.

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No one would have believed,
in the last years of the 19th century,

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that human affairs were being watched

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by intelligences which inhabited
the timeless worlds of space.

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No one could have dreamed
we were being scrutinised,

69
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as someone with a microscope
studies creatures

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that swarm and multiply
in a drop of water.

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Few men even considered the possibility
of life on other planets

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and yet, across the gulf of space,

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minds immeasurably superior to ours
regarded this Earth with envious eyes,

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and slowly, and surely,
they drew their plans against us.

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<i>At midnight on the 12th of August,</i>

76
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<i>a huge mass of luminous gas
erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth.</i>

77
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<i>I made contact with Ogilvy, the astronomer,
and we hurried to his observatory.</i>

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<i>Across 200 million miles of void,
invisibly hurtling towards us,</i>

79
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<i>came the first of the missiles that were
to bring so much calamity to Earth.</i>

80
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<i>As we watched, there was another jet of gas.
It was another missile, starting on its way.</i>

81
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<i>And that's how it was
for the next 10 nights.</i>

82
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<i>A flare spurting out from Mars,
bright green, drawing a green mist behind it,</i>

83
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<i>a beautiful,
but somehow disturbing sight.</i>

84
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<i>Ogilvy assured me we were in no danger.</i>

85
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<i>Perhaps a huge volcanic explosion
was in progress,</i>

86
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<i>but he was convinced
there could be no living thing</i>

87
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<i>on that remote, forbidding planet.</i>

88
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The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one, he said

89
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The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one

90
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But still they come

91
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<i>Then came the night
the first missile approached Earth.</i>

92
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<i>Hundreds saw it,
but thought it was an ordinary falling star.</i>

93
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<i>Some say it travelled
with a hissing sound,</i>

94
00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,630
<i>some that it landed
with a green flash</i>

95
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<i>However, next day there was a huge crater
in the middle of Horsell Common,</i>

96
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<i>and Ogilvy came to examine
what lay there,</i>

97
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<i>a cylinder, 30 yards across, glowing hot</i>

98
00:14:10,267 --> 00:14:14,062
<i>and with faint sounds of movement
coming from within.</i>

99
00:14:14,325 --> 00:14:17,940
<i>Suddenly the top began moving,
rotating, unscrewing,</i>

100
00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:21,570
<i>and Ogilvy feared there was a man inside,
trying to escape.</i>

101
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<i>He rushed to the cylinder,
but the intense heat stopped him</i>

102
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<i>before he could burn himself
on the still glowing metal.</i>

103
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The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one, he said

104
00:14:36,925 --> 00:14:42,290
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one

105
00:14:43,450 --> 00:14:47,010
But still they come!

106
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of anything coming from Mars

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Are a million to one, he said

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The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one

109
00:15:04,550 --> 00:15:07,820
But still

110
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They come

111
00:16:01,150 --> 00:16:05,125
<i>It seems totally incredible to me now
that everyone spent that evening</i>

112
00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:07,550
<i>as though it were just like any other.</i>

113
00:16:14,250 --> 00:16:19,430
<i>From the railway station came the sound
of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling,</i>

114
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<i>softened almost into melody
by the distance.</i>

115
00:16:28,825 --> 00:16:32,280
<i>It all seemed so safe and tranquil.</i>

116
00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:23,725
<i>Next morning,
a crowd gathered on the Common,</i>

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<i>hypnotised by the unscrewing
of the cylinder.</i>

118
00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:33,370
<i>Two feet of shining screw projected
when, suddenly, the lid fell off!</i>

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<i>Two luminous disc-like eyes
appeared above the rim.</i>

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<i>A huge, rounded bulk,
larger than a bear, rose up slowly,</i>

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<i>glistening like wet leather.</i>

122
00:18:56,260 --> 00:19:01,675
<i>Its lipless mouth quivered and slavered
and snake-like tentacles writhed</i>

123
00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,480
<i>as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated.</i>

124
00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:28,200
<i>A few young men
crept closer to the pit.</i>

125
00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:33,110
<i>A tall funnel rose, then an invisible ray
of heat leapt from man to man</i>

126
00:20:33,190 --> 00:20:36,950
<i>and there was a bright glare,
as each was instantly turned to fire.</i>

127
00:20:37,030 --> 00:20:39,725
<i>Every tree and bush
became a mass of flames</i>

128
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,160
<i>at the touch of this savage,
unearthly Heat-Ray.</i>

129
00:22:35,150 --> 00:22:38,740
<i>People clawed their way off the Common,
and I ran, too.</i>

130
00:22:39,050 --> 00:22:43,350
<i>I felt I was being toyed with,
that when I was on the very verge of safety,</i>

131
00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:47,660
<i>this mysterious death would leap after me
and strike me down.</i>

132
00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:50,475
<i>At last I reached Maybury Hill</i>

133
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,860
<i>and I looked with astonishment
at the tranquillity of the scene.</i>

134
00:22:54,050 --> 00:22:57,150
<i>Yet once inside,
in the dim coolness of my home,</i>

135
00:22:57,475 --> 00:22:59,175
<i>I wrote an account for my newspaper</i>

136
00:22:59,250 --> 00:23:03,790
<i>before I sank into a restless,
haunted sleep.</i>

137
00:24:01,375 --> 00:24:04,810
<i>I awoke to alien sounds
of hammering from the pit,</i>

138
00:24:04,890 --> 00:24:08,230
<i>and hurried to the railway station
to buy the paper.</i>

139
00:24:16,075 --> 00:24:20,200
Morning paper!
Men from Mars! Men from Mars!

140
00:24:21,075 --> 00:24:23,900
<i>Newsboys exclaimed that
one or two adventurous souls</i>

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<i>had crawled near the Martians
in the night, never to be seen again.</i>

142
00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:34,340
<i>Yet around me, the daily routine of life,
working, eating, sleeping,</i>

143
00:24:34,420 --> 00:24:37,500
<i>was continuing serenely
as it had for countless years.</i>

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00:24:47,930 --> 00:24:51,950
<i>On Horsell Common, the Martians
continued hammering and stirring,</i>

145
00:24:52,175 --> 00:24:56,440
<i>sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon
the machines they were making.</i>

146
00:24:56,775 --> 00:25:00,280
<i>Now and again a light,
like the beam of a warship's searchlight,</i>

147
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,610
<i>swept the Common,</i>

148
00:25:01,925 --> 00:25:04,620
<i>and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow.</i>

149
00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:56,000
<i>In the afternoon,</i>

150
00:27:56,120 --> 00:28:00,170
<i>a company of soldiers came through
and deployed along the edge of the Common,</i>

151
00:28:00,425 --> 00:28:01,575
<i>to form a cordon.</i>

152
00:28:15,070 --> 00:28:17,725
<i>That evening, there was a violent crash</i>

153
00:28:17,810 --> 00:28:21,230
<i>and I realised with horror
that my home was now within range</i>

154
00:28:21,310 --> 00:28:23,150
<i>of the Martians' Heat-Ray.</i>

155
00:28:34,275 --> 00:28:38,160
<i>At dawn, a falling star
with a trail of green mist</i>

156
00:28:38,250 --> 00:28:41,125
<i>landed with a flash
like summer lightning.</i>

157
00:28:41,290 --> 00:28:43,330
<i>This was the second cylinder.</i>

158
00:29:16,025 --> 00:29:20,040
Morning paper!
Men from Mars! Men from Mars!

159
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,075
<i>The hammering from the pit
and the pounding of guns grew louder.</i>

160
00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:06,480
<i>My fear rose at the sound
of someone creeping into the house.</i>

161
00:31:06,850 --> 00:31:12,690
<i>Then I saw it was a young artilleryman,
weary, streaked with blood and dirt.</i>

162
00:31:12,780 --> 00:31:14,025
Anyone here?

163
00:31:14,125 --> 00:31:15,570
Come in.

164
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,660
Here, drink this.

165
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:23,700
Thank you.

166
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:24,975
What's happened?

167
00:31:25,075 --> 00:31:28,830
They wiped us out.
Hundreds dead, maybe thousands.

168
00:31:29,475 --> 00:31:31,880
- The Heat-Ray?
- The Martians!

169
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,000
They were inside the hoods
of the machines they'd made,

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massive metal things on legs!

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00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,430
Giant machines that walked.
They attacked us! They wiped us out!

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00:31:41,050 --> 00:31:42,175
Machines?

173
00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:47,100
Fighting-machines, just hunks of metal,
but they knew exactly what they were doing.

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00:31:48,625 --> 00:31:49,850
Mmm.

175
00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:52,020
There was another cylinder
that came last night.

176
00:31:52,150 --> 00:31:55,030
Yes. Yes, it looked bound for London.

177
00:31:55,650 --> 00:31:57,900
London! Carrie!

178
00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:02,240
I hadn't dreamed there could be danger
to Carrie and her father, so many miles away.

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00:32:02,475 --> 00:32:04,280
I must go to London at once.

180
00:32:04,370 --> 00:32:05,250
And me.

181
00:32:05,325 --> 00:32:08,370
Got to report to Headquarters,
if there's anything left of it.

182
00:32:49,475 --> 00:32:51,420
<i>We started out on foot.</i>

183
00:32:51,475 --> 00:32:55,000
<i>At Byfleet we came upon an inn,
but it was deserted.</i>

184
00:32:55,175 --> 00:32:58,380
<i>The Artilleryman found the kitchen
and we filled our stomachs,</i>

185
00:32:58,450 --> 00:33:01,470
<i>and then our pockets,
with everything we could hold.</i>

186
00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:04,720
Look, a bottle of whisky, huh!
That's a lucky find.

187
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:05,890
<i>We hurried onwards.</i>

188
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,020
<i>There didn't seem
to be a living soul anywhere.</i>

189
00:33:09,675 --> 00:33:11,190
Is everybody dead?

190
00:33:11,310 --> 00:33:14,850
Not everybody. Look!
Six cannons with gunners standing by.

191
00:33:14,950 --> 00:33:17,475
- It's bows and arrows against the lightning.
- Mmm.

192
00:33:17,625 --> 00:33:19,740
They haven't seen the Heat-Ray yet.

193
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,980
<i>We hurried along the road to Weybridge.
Suddenly, there was a heavy explosion.</i>

194
00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,475
<i>The ground heaved, windows shattered</i>

195
00:34:01,625 --> 00:34:04,240
<i>and gusts of smoke erupted into the air.</i>

196
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,490
Look! There they are!
What did I tell you?

197
00:34:11,075 --> 00:34:13,160
Watch out! They're getting closer!

198
00:34:15,375 --> 00:34:18,650
Quick! Down here, they'll never find us.

199
00:34:31,470 --> 00:34:35,060
<i>Quickly, one after the other,
four of the fighting-machines appeared.</i>

200
00:34:35,140 --> 00:34:37,980
<i>Monstrous tripods,
higher than the tallest steeple,</i>

201
00:34:38,275 --> 00:34:40,860
<i>striding over the pine trees
and smashing them.</i>

202
00:34:41,025 --> 00:34:43,300
<i>Walking engines of glittering metal.</i>

203
00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:45,050
<i>Each carried a huge funnel</i>

204
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,070
<i>and I realised with horror
that I'd seen this awful thing before.</i>

205
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:30,525
<i>A fifth machine
appeared on the far bank.</i>

206
00:35:30,750 --> 00:35:35,540
<i>In an instant, it raised itself to full height,
flourished the funnel high in the air</i>

207
00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:39,200
<i>and the ghostly, terrible Heat-Ray
struck the town.</i>

208
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:50,100
<i>As it struck,
all five fighting-machines exulted,</i>

209
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,200
<i>emitting deafening howls
which roared like thunder.</i>

210
00:38:34,925 --> 00:38:38,600
<i>The six guns we had seen
now fired simultaneously,</i>

211
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,750
<i>decapitating a fighting-machine.</i>

212
00:38:41,425 --> 00:38:43,875
<i>The Martian inside the hood was slain,</i>

213
00:38:44,025 --> 00:38:45,750
<i>splashed to the four winds,</i>

214
00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:49,475
<i>and the body,
nothing now but an intricate device of metal,</i>

215
00:38:49,650 --> 00:38:51,650
<i>went whirling to destruction.</i>

216
00:38:52,125 --> 00:38:55,625
<i>As the other monsters advanced,
people ran away blindly,</i>

217
00:38:55,775 --> 00:38:57,500
<i>the Artilleryman among them,</i>

218
00:38:57,675 --> 00:38:59,620
<i>but I jumped into the water...</i>

219
00:39:07,790 --> 00:39:10,090
<i>Until forced up to breathe.</i>

220
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,420
<i>Now the guns spoke again,</i>

221
00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:15,510
<i>but this time the Heat-Ray sent them
to oblivion.</i>

222
00:40:21,175 --> 00:40:24,225
<i>With a white flash,
the Heat-Ray swept across the river.</i>

223
00:40:24,650 --> 00:40:29,025
<i>A huge wave near to boiling point
rushed upon me and I screamed aloud.</i>

224
00:40:29,220 --> 00:40:33,250
<i>Then scalded, half-blinded and agonised,
I staggered through</i>

225
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,050
<i>leaping, hissing water
towards the shore.</i>

226
00:40:36,325 --> 00:40:40,800
<i>I fell helplessly in full sight of the Martians,
expecting nothing but death.</i>

227
00:40:41,275 --> 00:40:44,300
<i>The foot of a fighting-machine
came down close to my head,</i>

228
00:40:44,390 --> 00:40:47,675
<i>then lifted again, as the four Martians
carried away the debris</i>

229
00:40:47,775 --> 00:40:49,310
<i>of their fallen comrade.</i>

230
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,730
<i>And I realised that by a miracle,
I had escaped.</i>

231
00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:04,220
<i>For three days I fought my way along roads
packed with refugees, the homeless,</i>

232
00:42:04,375 --> 00:42:07,850
<i>burdened with boxes and bundles
containing their valuables.</i>

233
00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:10,810
<i>All that was of value to me
was in London,</i>

234
00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:14,140
<i>but by the time I reached
their little red-brick house,</i>

235
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,940
<i>Carrie and her father were gone.</i>

236
00:42:26,675 --> 00:42:33,080
The summer sun is fading
as the year grows old

237
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:40,590
And darker days are drawing near

238
00:42:43,380 --> 00:42:48,600
<font color="

239
00:42:49,850 --> 00:42:54,850
Now you're not here

240
00:42:59,825 --> 00:43:04,860
I watch the birds fly south across
the autumn sky

241
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:12,580
And one by one they disappear

242
00:43:15,625 --> 00:43:21,130
I wish that I was flying with them

243
00:43:21,575 --> 00:43:26,220
Now you're not here

244
00:43:27,130 --> 00:43:32,720
Like the sun through the trees
You came to love me

245
00:43:35,020 --> 00:43:41,610
<font color="

246
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:02,790
Through autumn's golden gown
We used to kick our way

247
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:11,930
You always loved this time of year

248
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:18,430
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now

249
00:44:18,650 --> 00:44:22,310
'Cause you're not here

250
00:44:22,425 --> 00:44:26,110
'Cause you're not here

251
00:44:26,350 --> 00:44:29,175
'Cause you're not here

252
00:44:29,275 --> 00:44:31,200
<i>George, where are you?</i>

253
00:44:46,325 --> 00:44:51,050
<i>Fire suddenly leapt from house to house,
the population panicked and ran,</i>

254
00:44:51,180 --> 00:44:55,890
<i>and I was swept along with them,
aimless and lost without Carrie.</i>

255
00:44:56,500 --> 00:44:59,060
<i>Finally, I headed eastward
for the ocean,</i>

256
00:44:59,475 --> 00:45:03,810
<i>and my only hope of survival,
a boat out of England.</i>

257
00:45:05,050 --> 00:45:11,150
Like the sun through the trees
You came to love me

258
00:45:12,425 --> 00:45:18,370
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away

259
00:45:33,775 --> 00:45:39,560
A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes

260
00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:48,650
<font color="

261
00:45:50,075 --> 00:45:55,950
My life will be forever autumn

262
00:45:56,175 --> 00:45:59,040
'Cause you're not here

263
00:45:59,990 --> 00:46:03,370
'Cause you're not here

264
00:46:03,675 --> 00:46:09,590
'Cause you're not here

265
00:46:14,050 --> 00:46:17,600
<i>As I hastened through Covent Garden,
Blackfriars and Billingsgate,</i>

266
00:46:18,050 --> 00:46:21,225
<i>more and more people joined
the painful exodus.</i>

267
00:46:21,450 --> 00:46:26,000
<i>Sad, weary women, their children stumbling
and streaked with tears,</i>

268
00:46:26,225 --> 00:46:28,230
<i>their men bitter and angry,</i>

269
00:46:28,310 --> 00:46:32,070
<i>the rich rubbing shoulders
with beggars and outcasts.</i>

270
00:46:32,275 --> 00:46:36,775
<i>Dogs snarled and whined,
the horses' bits were covered with foam</i>

271
00:46:36,925 --> 00:46:41,200
<i>and here and there were wounded soldiers
as helpless as the rest.</i>

272
00:46:56,275 --> 00:46:58,680
<i>We saw tripods wading up the Thames,</i>

273
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,425
<i>cutting through bridges as though
they were paper.</i>

274
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,450
<i>Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge.</i>

275
00:47:04,725 --> 00:47:07,325
<i>One appeared above Big Ben.</i>

276
00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:30,200
<i>Never before in the history of the world</i>

277
00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:34,300
<i>had such a mass of human beings moved
and suffered together.</i>

278
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,525
<i>This was no disciplined march,
it was a stampede,</i>

279
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:41,140
<i>without order and without a goal.</i>

280
00:47:41,275 --> 00:47:44,000
<i>Six million people unarmed
and un-provisioned,</i>

281
00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:45,890
<i>driving headlong.</i>

282
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:49,190
<i>It was the beginning
of the rout of civilisation,</i>

283
00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:52,690
<i>of the massacre of mankind.</i>

284
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:19,300
<i>A vast crowd buffeted me towards
the already packed steamer.</i>

285
00:48:19,475 --> 00:48:22,175
<i>I looked up enviously
at those safely on board,</i>

286
00:48:22,325 --> 00:48:25,825
<i>straight into the eyes
of my beloved Carrie!</i>

287
00:48:26,050 --> 00:48:30,275
<i>At sight of me she began to fight her way
along the packed deck to the gangplank.</i>

288
00:48:30,450 --> 00:48:33,360
<i>At that very moment it was raised,</i>

289
00:48:33,625 --> 00:48:36,940
<i>and I caught a last glimpse
of her despairing face</i>

290
00:48:37,030 --> 00:48:40,400
<i>as the crowd swept me away from her.</i>

291
00:48:41,250 --> 00:48:46,950
Like the sun through the trees
You came to love me

292
00:48:48,650 --> 00:48:55,210
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away

293
00:49:10,060 --> 00:49:15,820
Through autumn's golden gown
We used to kick our way</font>

294
00:49:17,820 --> 00:49:22,410
You always loved this time of year

295
00:49:25,650 --> 00:49:31,410
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now

296
00:49:31,475 --> 00:49:34,080
'Cause you're not here

297
00:49:35,210 --> 00:49:38,710
'Cause you're not here

298
00:49:38,850 --> 00:49:42,430
'Cause you're not here

299
00:49:42,510 --> 00:49:44,590
George, my love!

300
00:50:06,675 --> 00:50:09,290
<i>The steamer began to move
slowly away,</i>

301
00:50:09,350 --> 00:50:11,175
<i>but on the landward horizon appeared</i>

302
00:50:11,225 --> 00:50:14,080
<i>the unmistakable silhouette
of a fighting-machine.</i>

303
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:18,750
<i>Another came, and another,
striding over hills and trees,</i>

304
00:50:18,825 --> 00:50:22,600
<i>plunging far out to sea
and blocking the exit of the steamer.</i>

305
00:50:23,075 --> 00:50:26,700
<i>Between them lay the silent,
grey ironclad Thunder Child.</i>

306
00:50:26,925 --> 00:50:28,470
<i>Slowly it moved towards shore,</i>

307
00:50:28,750 --> 00:50:31,675
<i>then, with a deafening roar
and whoosh of spray,</i>

308
00:50:31,825 --> 00:50:36,025
<i>it swung about and drove at full speed
towards the waiting Martians.</i>

309
00:50:38,550 --> 00:50:41,575
There were ships
of shapes and sizes

310
00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:44,320
<font color="

311
00:50:44,925 --> 00:50:51,120
And I thought I heard her calling
As the steamer pulled away

312
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:57,500
The invaders must have seen them
As across the coast they filed

313
00:50:58,025 --> 00:51:01,300
Standing firm between them

314
00:51:02,125 --> 00:51:06,470
There lay Thunder Child

315
00:51:09,930 --> 00:51:13,025
Moving swiftly through the waters

316
00:51:13,075 --> 00:51:15,640
Cannons blazing as she came

317
00:51:16,300 --> 00:51:22,480
<font color="
Crashing down in sheets of flame

318
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:28,490
Sensing victory was nearing
Thinking fortune must have smiled

319
00:51:29,450 --> 00:51:32,870
People started cheering

320
00:51:33,500 --> 00:51:36,410
Come on, Thunder Child

321
00:51:36,975 --> 00:51:42,040
Come on, Thunder Child

322
00:51:45,100 --> 00:51:49,390
<i>The Martians released their black smoke,
but the ship sped on,</i>

323
00:51:49,510 --> 00:51:52,075
<i>cutting down one of the tripod figures.</i>

324
00:51:52,625 --> 00:51:58,190
<i>Instantly, the others raised their Heat-Rays
and melted the Thunder Child's valiant heart.</i>

325
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,210
Lashing ropes
and smashing timbers

326
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:08,880
Flashing Heat-Rays pierced the deck

327
00:53:09,470 --> 00:53:15,375
Dashing hopes for our deliverance
As we watched the sinking wreck

328
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:21,640
With the smoke of battle clearing
Over graves in waves defiled

329
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,070
Slowly disappearing

330
00:53:26,650 --> 00:53:30,530
<font color="

331
00:53:31,175 --> 00:53:34,820
Slowly disappearing

332
00:53:35,650 --> 00:53:40,700
Farewell, Thunder Child

333
00:53:45,150 --> 00:53:49,840
Farewell, Thunder Child

334
00:53:51,725 --> 00:53:58,510
Farewell, Thunder Child

335
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:02,825
<i>When the smoke cleared,</i>

336
00:54:02,925 --> 00:54:05,500
<i>the little steamer had reached
the misty horizon,</i>

337
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,520
<i>and Carrie was safe.</i>

338
00:54:07,650 --> 00:54:12,860
<i>But the Thunder Child had vanished forever,
taking with her man's last hope of victory.</i>

339
00:54:12,950 --> 00:54:17,425
<i>The leaden sky was lit by green flashes,
cylinder following cylinder,</i>

340
00:54:17,525 --> 00:54:20,870
<i>and no one and nothing
was left now to fight them.</i>

341
00:54:20,975 --> 00:54:23,950
<i>The Earth belonged to the Martians.</i>

342
00:55:29,650 --> 00:55:31,770
<i>The Earth now belonged to the Martians</i>

343
00:55:31,975 --> 00:55:34,875
<i>and I knew not how the fate
of mankind would end.</i>

344
00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:37,150
<i>But, at least for the moment,</i>

345
00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:40,870
<i>I also knew that my beloved Carrie
and her father were safe,</i>

346
00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:43,700
<i>on another, but distant shore.</i>

347
00:55:50,790 --> 00:55:54,170
George, my love, where are you?

348
00:55:54,925 --> 00:55:57,220
I will not count you yet among the dead.

349
00:55:57,425 --> 00:55:59,130
Not yet.

350
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:02,300
But my dreams are strange and hideous.

351
00:56:02,625 --> 00:56:04,970
Carrie, do not mourn me.

352
00:56:05,100 --> 00:56:08,440
I will hold your hand again.
I will feel your touch.

353
00:56:08,650 --> 00:56:11,190
I will quench this aching in my heart.

354
00:56:11,550 --> 00:56:13,270
Are you still safe?

355
00:56:13,610 --> 00:56:17,070
Ghastly night. Dark.

356
00:56:17,475 --> 00:56:19,990
And mankind swept from existence.

357
00:56:20,570 --> 00:56:22,530
You swept from me.

358
00:56:23,250 --> 00:56:26,330
But I know. George, I know.

359
00:56:26,790 --> 00:56:28,330
I cannot sleep.

360
00:56:28,425 --> 00:56:31,210
I have found myself praying.
Praying, Carrie.

361
00:56:31,290 --> 00:56:34,420
Not the muttered charms
I uttered when I was in extremity.

362
00:56:34,500 --> 00:56:36,025
But since seeing your face,

363
00:56:36,170 --> 00:56:40,175
pleading steadfastly and sanely,
face to face with the darkness.

364
00:56:40,375 --> 00:56:43,220
Oh, strange, terrible night!

365
00:56:43,425 --> 00:56:45,010
Hideous night.

366
00:56:45,125 --> 00:56:48,680
Not even a pale sliver of light
to help with the finding.

367
00:56:49,250 --> 00:56:50,350
But...

368
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,440
- I will not count you among the dead.
- I will not count you among the dead.

369
00:57:09,925 --> 00:57:14,460
<i>Next day,
the dawn was a brilliant, fiery red</i>

370
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:18,925
<i>and I wandered through the weird
and lurid landscape of another planet.</i>

371
00:57:19,350 --> 00:57:22,760
<i>For the vegetation which gives Mars
its red appearance</i>

372
00:57:22,925 --> 00:57:25,350
<i>had taken root on Earth.</i>

373
00:57:25,550 --> 00:57:27,825
<i>As man had succumbed to the Martians,</i>

374
00:57:28,060 --> 00:57:31,390
<i>so our land now succumbed
to the red weed.</i>

375
01:01:40,275 --> 01:01:41,850
<i>Wherever there was a stream,</i>

376
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,900
<i>the red weed clung and grew
with frightening voraciousness,</i>

377
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:50,625
<i>its claw-like fronds choking
the movement of the water.</i>

378
01:01:51,225 --> 01:01:55,740
<i>And then it began to creep
like a slimy red animal across the land,</i>

379
01:01:55,870 --> 01:02:00,125
<i>covering field and ditch
and tree and hedgerow,</i>

380
01:02:00,250 --> 01:02:04,120
<i>with living scarlet feelers, crawling!</i>

381
01:02:04,170 --> 01:02:06,040
<i>Crawling.</i>

382
01:02:29,675 --> 01:02:33,625
<i>it was impossible to recognise the route
I had taken only yesterday,</i>

383
01:02:33,750 --> 01:02:36,910
<i>so engulfed was it by the red weed.</i>

384
01:02:37,050 --> 01:02:40,950
<i>It was like walking
upon gigantic blood drops.</i>

385
01:02:42,325 --> 01:02:46,540
<i>I kept to the road after that,
walking steadily towards London.</i>

386
01:02:46,625 --> 01:02:49,400
<i>I knew a terrible fear.</i>

387
01:02:49,525 --> 01:02:53,200
<i>The red weed had formed
a crimson blanket over our world,</i>

388
01:02:53,325 --> 01:02:56,775
<i>and it threatened
to smother all of mankind.</i>

389
01:03:20,950 --> 01:03:23,450
<i>I suddenly noticed the body of a parson,</i>

390
01:03:23,570 --> 01:03:26,425
<i>lying on the ground
in a ruined churchyard.</i>

391
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:30,175
<i>I felt unable to leave him
to the mercy of the red weed</i>

392
01:03:30,380 --> 01:03:33,380
<i>and decided to bury him decently.</i>

393
01:03:34,375 --> 01:03:37,625
<i>I gazed down sadly at his ravaged face,</i>

394
01:03:37,825 --> 01:03:40,760
<i>and then reeled with shock as his eyes
flickered open.</i>

395
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:42,650
<i>He was alive!</i>

396
01:03:46,570 --> 01:03:47,750
Nathaniel.

397
01:03:47,825 --> 01:03:50,980
Nathaniel!

398
01:04:19,525 --> 01:04:21,800
No, Nathaniel

399
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,300
Oh, no, Nathaniel

400
01:04:25,475 --> 01:04:28,575
Nathaniel! I saw the church
burst into flame!

401
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:30,475
- Are you all right?
- Don't touch me!

402
01:04:30,550 --> 01:04:32,700
But it's me, Beth. Your wife.

403
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,400
No. You're one of them.

404
01:04:35,650 --> 01:04:37,800
- A devil!
- But they're not devils, they're Martians.

405
01:04:37,870 --> 01:04:40,200
Yes, they came from Mars, not from God.

406
01:04:40,270 --> 01:04:43,910
- Lies! I saw the Devil's sign.
- What are you saying?

407
01:04:43,990 --> 01:04:47,500
The green flash in the sky.
His demons were here all along,

408
01:04:47,750 --> 01:04:53,125
in our hearts and in our souls,
just waiting for a sign from him.

409
01:04:53,250 --> 01:04:55,750
And now they're destroying our world.

410
01:04:55,950 --> 01:04:57,450
He's delirious!

411
01:04:57,550 --> 01:04:58,975
Now pull yourself together, man.

412
01:04:59,075 --> 01:05:01,220
What good is religion
if it fails you in a calamity?

413
01:05:01,420 --> 01:05:03,325
It was I who failed.

414
01:05:03,475 --> 01:05:04,725
After all my promises,

415
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,100
I couldn't help the people
when they needed me.

416
01:05:07,470 --> 01:05:09,425
- Take heart, you'll have the chance again.
- No!

417
01:05:09,500 --> 01:05:10,750
But we must leave here. Now!

418
01:05:10,850 --> 01:05:13,075
- No.
- Look! A house still standing!

419
01:05:13,270 --> 01:05:14,325
Come, Nathaniel, quickly!

420
01:05:14,375 --> 01:05:18,425
<i>We took shelter in a cottage
and black smoke spread, hemming us in.</i>

421
01:05:18,940 --> 01:05:21,025
<i>Then a fighting-machine
came across the fields,</i>

422
01:05:21,150 --> 01:05:25,870
<i>spraying jets of steam that turned
the smoke into thick, black dust.</i>

423
01:05:25,925 --> 01:05:27,275
<i>Black dust.</i>

424
01:05:29,150 --> 01:05:30,870
<i>Thick black dust.</i>

425
01:05:38,450 --> 01:05:41,880
Dear God, help us!

426
01:05:42,430 --> 01:05:47,060
The voice of the Devil
is heard in our land!

427
01:05:47,450 --> 01:05:52,425
Listen, do you hear them drawing
near in their search for the sinners?

428
01:05:54,600 --> 01:06:00,070
Feeding on the power of our fear
and the evil within us

429
01:06:01,225 --> 01:06:07,175
Incarnation of Satan's creation
of all that we dread

430
01:06:08,450 --> 01:06:14,290
When the demons arrive
Those alive would be better off dead!

431
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,420
<font color="

432
01:06:20,670 --> 01:06:25,390
There must be something worth trying for

433
01:06:26,050 --> 01:06:29,260
Even some things worth dying for

434
01:06:31,500 --> 01:06:34,800
And if one man can stand tall

435
01:06:35,100 --> 01:06:38,650
There must be hope for us all

436
01:06:38,775 --> 01:06:45,610
Somewhere, somewhere, in the spirit of man

437
01:06:49,300 --> 01:06:54,175
Once there was a time when I believed
without hesitation

438
01:06:55,825 --> 01:06:58,960
<font color="
could conquer all

439
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,950
In the name of salvation

440
01:07:03,025 --> 01:07:08,470
Tell me what kind of weapon is love
When it comes to the fight

441
01:07:10,250 --> 01:07:15,310
And just how much protection is truth
against all Satan's might

442
01:07:17,525 --> 01:07:21,070
There must be something worth living for

443
01:07:21,150 --> 01:07:22,280
Beth, no.

444
01:07:22,450 --> 01:07:26,320
There must be something worth trying for

445
01:07:27,860 --> 01:07:33,040
<font color="

446
01:07:33,275 --> 01:07:36,675
And if just one man can stand tall

447
01:07:36,850 --> 01:07:39,630
There must be some hope for us all

448
01:07:40,475 --> 01:07:47,380
Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man

449
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,770
People loved you and trusted you,

450
01:08:03,325 --> 01:08:06,000
came to you for help.

451
01:08:06,225 --> 01:08:08,600
Didn't I warn them this would happen?

452
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,950
Be on your guard, I said.

453
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:14,800
For the Evil One never rests.

454
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,475
I said exorcise the Devil.

455
01:08:19,710 --> 01:08:23,225
But no, no, they wouldn't listen.

456
01:08:23,450 --> 01:08:27,125
The demons inside them grew and grew.

457
01:08:27,260 --> 01:08:32,300
Until Satan gave his signal
and destroyed the world we knew.

458
01:08:32,390 --> 01:08:35,600
No, Nathaniel

459
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:39,060
Oh, no, Nathaniel

460
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,375
No, Nathaniel, no

461
01:08:43,525 --> 01:08:47,525
There must be more to life

462
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,825
There has to be a way

463
01:08:50,950 --> 01:08:53,800
That we can restore to life

464
01:08:53,925 --> 01:08:56,240
The love we used to know

465
01:08:56,330 --> 01:08:58,875
<font color="

466
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,950
There must be more to life

467
01:09:03,100 --> 01:09:06,150
There has to be a way

468
01:09:06,300 --> 01:09:09,500
That we can restore to life

469
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:15,310
The light that we have lost

470
01:09:59,925 --> 01:10:02,650
Now darkness has descended on our land

471
01:10:02,825 --> 01:10:05,770
And all your prayers cannot save us

472
01:10:06,850 --> 01:10:10,240
Like fools we've let the Devil take command

473
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:13,975
<font color="

474
01:10:14,100 --> 01:10:19,580
To the Altar of Evil like lambs
to the slaughter we're led

475
01:10:21,375 --> 01:10:26,540
When the demons arrive
The survivors will envy the dead!

476
01:10:28,630 --> 01:10:31,210
There must be something worth living for

477
01:10:31,300 --> 01:10:33,590
No, there is nothing!

478
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:36,340
There must be something worth trying for

479
01:10:36,390 --> 01:10:38,600
I don't believe it is so

480
01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:41,680
<font color="

481
01:10:43,060 --> 01:10:44,560
Name me one thing

482
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,825
If just one man could stand tall

483
01:10:47,925 --> 01:10:51,475
There would be some hope for us all

484
01:10:51,625 --> 01:10:58,450
- Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man
- Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man

485
01:10:59,740 --> 01:11:02,660
Forget about goodness and mercy,
they're gone!

486
01:11:46,350 --> 01:11:48,575
Didn't I warn them?

487
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:51,775
- Pray, I said.
- Pray, I said.

488
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,000
Destroy the Devil, I said.

489
01:11:54,125 --> 01:11:55,880
<i>Devil, I said.</i>

490
01:11:57,125 --> 01:12:00,725
No, no they wouldn't listen.

491
01:12:01,625 --> 01:12:05,400
I could have saved the world.

492
01:12:05,650 --> 01:12:08,375
But now it's too late.

493
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:10,310
Too late!

494
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:12,770
No, Nathaniel

495
01:12:13,900 --> 01:12:16,775
Oh, no, Nathaniel

496
01:12:18,820 --> 01:12:21,625
No, Nathaniel, no

497
01:12:21,750 --> 01:12:25,910
There must be more to life

498
01:12:26,025 --> 01:12:29,040
There has to be a way

499
01:12:29,170 --> 01:12:32,050
That we can restore to life

500
01:12:32,125 --> 01:12:34,550
<font color="

501
01:12:34,630 --> 01:12:36,975
No, Nathaniel, no.

502
01:12:37,170 --> 01:12:41,275
There must be more to life

503
01:12:41,370 --> 01:12:44,400
There has to be a way

504
01:12:44,550 --> 01:12:48,275
That we can restore to life

505
01:12:48,450 --> 01:12:52,325
The light that we have lost

506
01:12:52,450 --> 01:12:56,230
<i>- No, Nathaniel</i>
- Oh, no, Nathaniel

507
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,075
<i>Nathaniel.</i>

508
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:01,660
- No, Nathaniel
<i><font color="

509
01:13:01,740 --> 01:13:05,580
Oh, no, Nathaniel

510
01:13:05,660 --> 01:13:07,450
Nathaniel!

511
01:13:23,550 --> 01:13:26,875
Dear God!
A cylinder's landed on the house!

512
01:13:27,150 --> 01:13:29,225
And we're underneath it, in the pit!

513
01:13:38,725 --> 01:13:41,875
<i>The Martians spent the night
making a new machine.</i>

514
01:13:42,100 --> 01:13:46,500
<i>It was a squat, metallic spider
with huge articulated claws,</i>

515
01:13:46,625 --> 01:13:49,700
<i>but it, too, had a hood
in which a Martian sat.</i>

516
01:13:49,925 --> 01:13:52,575
<i>I watched it pursuing
some people across a field.</i>

517
01:13:52,675 --> 01:13:56,875
<i>It caught them nimbly and tossed them
into a great metal basket upon its back.</i>

518
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:02,090
Beth!

519
01:14:02,180 --> 01:14:03,590
She's dead!

520
01:14:04,550 --> 01:14:06,220
Buried underneath the rubble.

521
01:14:06,420 --> 01:14:08,500
Why?

522
01:14:08,575 --> 01:14:12,125
Satan, why did you take one of your own?

523
01:14:27,125 --> 01:14:30,575
There is a curse on mankind

524
01:14:30,670 --> 01:14:34,125
We may as well be resigned

525
01:14:34,225 --> 01:14:40,650
To let the Devil
The Devil take The spirit of man

526
01:14:44,820 --> 01:14:47,825
<i>- No, Nathaniel
- No, Nathaniel</i>

527
01:14:47,925 --> 01:14:51,640
<i>- Oh, no, Nathaniel
- Nathaniel</i>

528
01:14:51,875 --> 01:14:54,940
<i>- No, Nathaniel
- No, Nathaniel</i>

529
01:14:54,980 --> 01:15:00,900
<i>Oh, no, Nathaniel</i>

530
01:15:05,550 --> 01:15:08,650
<i>As time passed
in our dark and dusty prison,</i>

531
01:15:08,900 --> 01:15:12,150
<i>the Parson wrestled
endlessly with his doubts.</i>

532
01:15:12,290 --> 01:15:14,960
<i>His outcries invited death for us both</i>

533
01:15:15,225 --> 01:15:17,420
<i>and yet I pitied him.</i>

534
01:16:35,290 --> 01:16:39,675
<i>Then, on the ninth day,
we saw the Martians eating.</i>

535
01:16:39,870 --> 01:16:41,750
<i>Inside the hood of their new machine,</i>

536
01:16:41,975 --> 01:16:45,550
<i>they were draining the fresh, living blood
of men and women</i>

537
01:16:45,625 --> 01:16:48,130
<i>and injecting it into their own veins.</i>

538
01:16:49,550 --> 01:16:52,200
It's a sign! I've been given a sign!

539
01:16:52,375 --> 01:16:54,650
They must be cast out

540
01:16:54,925 --> 01:16:57,050
and I have been chosen to do it.

541
01:16:57,300 --> 01:16:59,890
I must confront them now!

542
01:17:00,975 --> 01:17:03,730
Those machines are just demons
in another form!

543
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,980
I shall destroy them with my prayers!

544
01:17:06,100 --> 01:17:09,150
I shall burn them with my Holy Cross!

545
01:17:09,375 --> 01:17:13,070
- I shall, I'll try, if I can just...
- No, Parson, no!

546
01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:18,750
<i>The curious eye of a Martian
appeared at the window-slit,</i>

547
01:17:18,900 --> 01:17:21,475
<i>and a menacing claw explored the room.</i>

548
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,670
<i>I dragged the Parson down
to the coal cellar.</i>

549
01:17:23,875 --> 01:17:26,275
<i>I heard the Martian
fumbling at the latch.</i>

550
01:17:26,325 --> 01:17:28,200
<i>It understood doors!</i>

551
01:17:28,300 --> 01:17:30,700
<i>In the darkness
I could see the claw touching things,</i>

552
01:17:30,875 --> 01:17:35,200
<i>walls, coal, wood,
and then it touched my boot!</i>

553
01:17:35,375 --> 01:17:36,850
<i>I almost shouted!</i>

554
01:17:37,050 --> 01:17:40,980
<i>For a time it was still and then, with a click,
it gripped something.</i>

555
01:17:41,400 --> 01:17:42,600
<i>The Parson!</i>

556
01:17:42,875 --> 01:17:44,610
<i>With slow deliberate movements,</i>

557
01:17:44,700 --> 01:17:46,940
<i>his unconscious body was dragged away.</i>

558
01:17:47,125 --> 01:17:50,075
<i>And there was nothing
I could do to prevent it.</i>

559
01:19:57,490 --> 01:20:01,725
<i>I crept to the blocked window-slit
and peered through the creeper.</i>

560
01:20:01,910 --> 01:20:05,120
<i>The Martians
and all their machinery had gone!</i>

561
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:08,950
<i>Trembling, I dug my way out
and clambered to the top of the mound.</i>

562
01:20:09,170 --> 01:20:11,170
<i>Not a Martian in sight!</i>

563
01:20:11,975 --> 01:20:14,800
<i>The day seemed dazzling bright
after my imprisonment,</i>

564
01:20:14,880 --> 01:20:17,250
<i>and the sky a glowing blue,</i>

565
01:20:17,590 --> 01:20:20,025
<i>red weed covered every scrap of ground,</i>

566
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:22,300
<i>but a gentle breeze kept it swaying</i>

567
01:20:22,375 --> 01:20:26,430
<i>and, oh, the sweetness of the air!</i>

568
01:22:07,375 --> 01:22:09,750
<i>Again, I was on my way to London,</i>

569
01:22:09,850 --> 01:22:12,725
<i>through towns and villages
that were blackened ruins,</i>

570
01:22:12,825 --> 01:22:16,525
<i>totally silent, desolate, deserted.</i>

571
01:22:16,675 --> 01:22:18,840
<i>Only the red weed lived.</i>

572
01:22:19,050 --> 01:22:21,025
<i>I felt a sense of dethronement,</i>

573
01:22:21,220 --> 01:22:23,970
<i>a realisation that
I was no longer a master,</i>

574
01:22:24,025 --> 01:22:26,760
<i>but a puppet,
under Martian domination.</i>

575
01:22:27,425 --> 01:22:32,020
<i>Man's empire had passed away,
taken swiftly and without error,</i>

576
01:22:32,075 --> 01:22:35,560
<i>by these creatures
who were composed entirely of brain.</i>

577
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:39,725
<i>Unhampered by the complex systems
which make up man,</i>

578
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:43,575
<i>they made and used different bodies
according to their needs.</i>

579
01:22:43,820 --> 01:22:46,575
<i>In a sexual world,
they were without sex,</i>

580
01:22:46,675 --> 01:22:50,600
<i>without the tumultuous emotions
that arise between man and woman.</i>

581
01:22:51,225 --> 01:22:54,325
<i>They never tired, never slept
and never suffered,</i>

582
01:22:54,525 --> 01:22:57,000
<i>having long since eliminated
from their planet</i>

583
01:22:57,080 --> 01:23:02,075
<i>the bacteria which cause all fevers,
cancers and other morbidities.</i>

584
01:23:08,300 --> 01:23:09,950
Halt! Who goes there?

585
01:23:10,020 --> 01:23:11,900
- Friend.
- Be on your way.

586
01:23:12,020 --> 01:23:14,100
This is my territory.

587
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:16,560
Your territory? What do you mean?

588
01:23:16,650 --> 01:23:19,110
Wait a minute, it's you!

589
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:21,070
The man from Maybury Hill!

590
01:23:21,125 --> 01:23:23,350
Good heavens! The Artilleryman!

591
01:23:23,530 --> 01:23:24,875
I thought you surely burned.

592
01:23:24,975 --> 01:23:27,020
I thought you surely drowned.

593
01:23:27,375 --> 01:23:30,500
- Is this your house?
- Well, it is now.

594
01:23:30,650 --> 01:23:32,040
Have you seen any Martians?

595
01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:34,290
Everywhere. We're done for all right.

596
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:36,925
- You mean the war is lost?
- There never was a war.

597
01:23:37,050 --> 01:23:40,975
There's no war between men and ants
and that's what we are now. Ants!

598
01:23:41,130 --> 01:23:42,300
We can't just give up!

599
01:23:42,340 --> 01:23:44,920
Correct. But squealing
and panicking don't help.

600
01:23:45,075 --> 01:23:46,630
I've been in sight of death before,

601
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:49,000
and you know who always comes through?

602
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:52,100
- The man who keeps on thinking.
- Uh-huh.

603
01:23:52,510 --> 01:23:54,060
What brought you to Islington?

604
01:23:54,170 --> 01:23:55,275
Thinking.

605
01:23:55,375 --> 01:23:58,850
Everyone was rushing away,
so I headed right for the Martians,

606
01:23:58,975 --> 01:24:00,650
like a sparrow goes for the crumbs.

607
01:24:00,850 --> 01:24:02,480
Now, people are starving
in heaps out there,

608
01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:05,780
treading on each other,
but I've everything I need,

609
01:24:06,350 --> 01:24:08,125
till the Martians are ready.

610
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:09,475
Ready for what?

611
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:12,575
The next stage, bringing over
the rest of their people.

612
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,750
After that, they won't go catching us
one at a time.

613
01:24:14,875 --> 01:24:16,725
They'll do it systematic.

614
01:24:16,925 --> 01:24:19,275
Laying traps and storing us
in cages and things.

615
01:24:19,450 --> 01:24:21,975
So we'll have to fix up
a new kind of life for ourselves,

616
01:24:22,125 --> 01:24:25,400
and there'll be none of your
namby-pamby civilisation and stuff,

617
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,550
that game's over.

618
01:24:27,750 --> 01:24:29,180
Then what is there to live for?

619
01:24:29,260 --> 01:24:30,680
The breed, man!

620
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:34,575
We can't let ourselves be
caught and fattened like cattle.

621
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:35,875
But how can we prevent it?

622
01:24:35,950 --> 01:24:38,100
I've got a plan!

623
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:59,250
We're gonna build
a whole new world for ourselves.

624
01:24:59,330 --> 01:25:02,925
Look, they clap eyes on us
and we're dead, right?

625
01:25:04,650 --> 01:25:08,300
So we gotta make a new life
where they'll never find us.

626
01:25:08,470 --> 01:25:10,220
You know where?

627
01:25:10,350 --> 01:25:11,850
Underground.

628
01:25:13,550 --> 01:25:17,900
You should see it down there,
hundreds of miles of drains,

629
01:25:18,200 --> 01:25:20,400
sweet and clean now after the rain.

630
01:25:22,375 --> 01:25:26,230
Dark, quiet, safe.

631
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,070
We can build houses and everything,
start again from scratch.

632
01:25:31,725 --> 01:25:34,575
And what's so bad
about living underground, eh?

633
01:25:34,825 --> 01:25:37,540
It's not been so great living up here,
if you want my opinion.

634
01:25:47,590 --> 01:25:51,800
Take a look around you

635
01:25:52,930 --> 01:25:58,270
At the world we've come to know

636
01:25:59,650 --> 01:26:04,190
Does it seem to be much more

637
01:26:05,250 --> 01:26:10,860
Than a... crazy circus show

638
01:26:12,350 --> 01:26:16,160
But maybe from the madness

639
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:22,620
Something beautiful will grow

640
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:28,000
In a brave new world

641
01:26:30,010 --> 01:26:33,630
<font color="

642
01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:41,020
We'll start, we'll start all over again

643
01:26:41,975 --> 01:26:44,020
All over again

644
01:26:45,750 --> 01:26:48,275
All over again

645
01:26:49,500 --> 01:26:52,450
All over again

646
01:27:02,300 --> 01:27:07,325
We'll build shops and hospitals
and barracks right under their noses,

647
01:27:07,450 --> 01:27:09,475
right under their feet!

648
01:27:09,600 --> 01:27:13,220
Everything we need,
banks, prisons and schools.

649
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:17,225
We'll send scouting parties
to collect books and stuff,

650
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:19,725
and men like you will teach the kids.

651
01:27:19,820 --> 01:27:22,050
Not poems and rubbish,

652
01:27:22,175 --> 01:27:26,100
science, so we can get
everything working.

653
01:27:26,500 --> 01:27:28,675
We'll build villages and towns,

654
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:30,400
and we'll play each other at cricket!

655
01:27:30,700 --> 01:27:35,000
Listen, maybe one day
we'll capture a fighting-machine, eh?

656
01:27:35,275 --> 01:27:37,030
Learn how to make 'em ourselves

657
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:40,725
and then wallop!

658
01:27:40,875 --> 01:27:43,150
Our turn to do some wiping out!

659
01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:47,350
Whoosh with our Heat-Ray, Whoosh!

660
01:27:47,500 --> 01:27:52,420
And them running and dying,
beaten at their own game.

661
01:27:53,380 --> 01:27:57,340
Man on top again!

662
01:28:33,170 --> 01:28:36,720
Now our domination of the Earth
is fading fast</font>

663
01:28:36,770 --> 01:28:40,275
And out of the confusion
the chance has come at last

664
01:28:40,425 --> 01:28:43,680
To build a better future
from the ashes of the past

665
01:28:44,020 --> 01:28:46,900
In a brave new world

666
01:28:47,225 --> 01:28:50,440
Give me a handful of men

667
01:28:50,900 --> 01:28:53,900
We'll start all over again

668
01:29:02,700 --> 01:29:03,950
- Look!
<i>- Look!</i>

669
01:29:04,030 --> 01:29:08,080
Look, man is born in freedom
But he soon becomes a slave</font>

670
01:29:08,175 --> 01:29:11,830
In cages of convention
From the cradle to the grave

671
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:15,175
The weak fall by the wayside
But the strong will be saved

672
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:17,920
In a brave new world

673
01:29:18,675 --> 01:29:22,075
With just a handful of men

674
01:29:22,375 --> 01:29:24,930
We'll start all over again

675
01:29:35,940 --> 01:29:39,440
I'm not trying to tell you what to be

676
01:29:39,490 --> 01:29:43,280
Oh, no, oh, no, not me

677
01:29:44,740 --> 01:29:47,050
<font color="

678
01:29:47,175 --> 01:29:49,250
The people left alive

679
01:29:49,650 --> 01:29:55,290
They're gonna have to build this world anew

680
01:29:55,800 --> 01:30:02,720
And it's going to have to start
with me and you

681
01:30:03,470 --> 01:30:04,800
Yes!

682
01:30:52,125 --> 01:30:55,560
I'm not trying to tell you what to be

683
01:30:55,650 --> 01:30:59,400
Oh, no, oh, no, not me

684
01:31:00,650 --> 01:31:02,900
But if mankind is to survive

685
01:31:03,075 --> 01:31:04,950
<font color="

686
01:31:05,350 --> 01:31:10,830
They're gonna have to build this world anew

687
01:31:11,270 --> 01:31:17,675
Yes and we will have to be the chosen few

688
01:31:17,925 --> 01:31:19,225
<i>Just, just, just, just, just</i>

689
01:31:19,300 --> 01:31:23,175
Just think of all the poverty
The hatred and the lies

690
01:31:23,300 --> 01:31:26,850
And imagine the destruction
of all that you despise

691
01:31:26,970 --> 01:31:28,550
Slowly from the ashes

692
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:30,200
<font color="

693
01:31:30,425 --> 01:31:33,020
In a brave new world

694
01:31:33,675 --> 01:31:36,770
With just a handful of men

695
01:31:37,300 --> 01:31:39,820
We'll start all over again

696
01:32:34,350 --> 01:32:37,475
Take a look around you

697
01:32:39,370 --> 01:32:43,460
At the world you've loved so well

698
01:32:45,050 --> 01:32:51,970
And bid the ageing Empire of Man
A last farewell

699
01:32:54,375 --> 01:32:57,310
It may not sound like Heaven

700
01:32:58,725 --> 01:33:02,650
<font color="

701
01:33:04,375 --> 01:33:07,740
It's a brave new world

702
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:12,240
With just a handful of men

703
01:33:14,850 --> 01:33:19,620
We'll start, we'll start all over again

704
01:33:20,475 --> 01:33:23,880
All over again

705
01:33:23,950 --> 01:33:27,460
All over again

706
01:33:27,550 --> 01:33:30,220
All over again

707
01:33:31,550 --> 01:33:35,600
I've got a plan!

708
01:33:36,970 --> 01:33:38,275
Can't you just see it?

709
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:42,770
Civilisation starting all over again,
a second chance!

710
01:33:43,075 --> 01:33:45,425
We'll even build a railway
and tunnel to the coast,

711
01:33:45,750 --> 01:33:47,625
go there on our holidays.

712
01:33:47,700 --> 01:33:49,610
Nothing can stop men like us.

713
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:51,550
I've made a start already.

714
01:33:51,650 --> 01:33:53,800
Come on down here. Have a look.

715
01:33:55,830 --> 01:33:58,825
<i>In the cellar was a tunnel
scarcely 10 yards long,</i>

716
01:33:58,900 --> 01:34:01,075
<i>that had taken him a week to dig.</i>

717
01:34:01,300 --> 01:34:03,400
<i>I could have dug that much in a day,</i>

718
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:08,420
<i>and I suddenly had my first inkling of the gulf
between his dreams and his powers.</i>

719
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:03,310
It's doing the working and the thinking
that wears a fellow out.

720
01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:06,150
I'm ready for a bit of a rest.
How about a drink, eh?

721
01:35:06,250 --> 01:35:08,730
Nothing but champagne, now I'm the boss.

722
01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:13,675
<i>We drank and then
he insisted upon playing cards.</i>

723
01:35:13,850 --> 01:35:16,360
<i>With our species
on the edge of extermination,</i>

724
01:35:16,525 --> 01:35:20,850
<i>with no prospect but a horrible death,
we actually played games.</i>

725
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:35,950
<i>Later, he talked more of his plan,</i>

726
01:35:36,025 --> 01:35:39,050
<i>but I saw flames flashing
in the deep blue night,</i>

727
01:35:39,150 --> 01:35:43,450
<i>red weed glowing,
tripod figures moving distantly,</i>

728
01:35:43,525 --> 01:35:45,890
<i>and I put down my champagne glass.</i>

729
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:48,100
<i>I felt a traitor to my kind</i>

730
01:35:48,190 --> 01:35:51,575
<i>and I knew I must leave
this strange dreamer.</i>

731
01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:14,380
Take a look around you

732
01:36:16,220 --> 01:36:21,890
At the world we've come to know

733
01:36:22,925 --> 01:36:27,060
Does it seem to be much more

734
01:36:28,575 --> 01:36:33,730
Than a crazy circus show

735
01:36:35,610 --> 01:36:39,740
But maybe from the madness

736
01:36:40,820 --> 01:36:46,750
Something beautiful will grow

737
01:38:10,125 --> 01:38:13,075
<i>There were a dozen dead bodies
in the Euston Road,</i>

738
01:38:13,175 --> 01:38:16,290
<i>their outlines softened
by the black dust.</i>

739
01:38:16,375 --> 01:38:21,630
<i>All was still, houses locked
and empty, shops closed,</i>

740
01:38:21,700 --> 01:38:24,720
<i>but looters had helped themselves
to wine and food,</i>

741
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:26,350
<i>and outside a jewellers'</i>

742
01:38:26,430 --> 01:38:29,850
<i>some gold chains and a watch
were scattered on the pavement.</i>

743
01:38:36,860 --> 01:38:40,800
<i>In Bloomsbury, the stillness grew
even more profound.</i>

744
01:38:40,975 --> 01:38:44,660
<i>An odd, unnerving feeling of suspense,</i>

745
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:48,370
<i>as though the destruction
which had annihilated the countryside</i>

746
01:38:48,450 --> 01:38:53,675
<i>might at any moment strike these
gracious houses in the very heart of London,</i>

747
01:38:53,870 --> 01:38:56,650
<i>and leave all in smoking ruins.</i>

748
01:39:14,390 --> 01:39:17,675
<i>I stopped, staring towards the sound.</i>

749
01:39:17,810 --> 01:39:20,575
<i>It seemed as if that
mighty desert of houses</i>

750
01:39:20,730 --> 01:39:24,150
<i>had found a voice
for its fear and solitude.</i>

751
01:39:54,675 --> 01:39:57,700
<i>The desolated cry worked upon my mind.</i>

752
01:39:57,810 --> 01:40:00,075
<i>The wailing took possession of me.</i>

753
01:40:00,440 --> 01:40:04,650
<i>I was intensely weary, footsore,
hungry and thirsty.</i>

754
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:08,000
<i>Why was I wandering alone
in this city of the dead?</i>

755
01:40:08,820 --> 01:40:13,950
<i>Why was I alive, when London
was lying in state in its black shroud?</i>

756
01:40:14,500 --> 01:40:17,330
<i>I felt intolerably lonely,</i>

757
01:40:17,420 --> 01:40:20,340
<i>drifting from street to empty street,</i>

758
01:40:20,420 --> 01:40:23,420
<i>drawn inexorably towards that cry.</i>

759
01:41:19,020 --> 01:41:21,690
<i>I saw over the trees,
glittering in the sunlight,</i>

760
01:41:21,770 --> 01:41:25,820
<i>the hood of the Martian fighting-machine
from which the howling came.</i>

761
01:41:26,275 --> 01:41:28,250
<i>I crossed Regent's Canal,</i>

762
01:41:28,400 --> 01:41:31,450
<i>now a spongy mass
of dark red vegetation,</i>

763
01:41:31,530 --> 01:41:34,030
<i>and pushed on towards Primrose Hill.</i>

764
01:41:34,580 --> 01:41:39,750
<i>There stood a second fighting-machine,
upright, but as still as the first.</i>

765
01:41:55,175 --> 01:41:57,970
<i>Abruptly, the sound ceased.</i>

766
01:41:58,640 --> 01:42:03,440
<i>Suddenly, the desolation, the solitude,
became unendurable.</i>

767
01:42:04,075 --> 01:42:08,325
<i>While that voice sounded,
London had still seemed alive.</i>

768
01:42:08,625 --> 01:42:10,450
<i>But suddenly, there was a change,</i>

769
01:42:10,610 --> 01:42:13,570
<i>the passing of something,
I knew not what.</i>

770
01:42:13,950 --> 01:42:18,080
<i>Except now all that remained
was this gaunt quiet.</i>

771
01:42:19,750 --> 01:42:23,000
<i>I looked up and saw a third machine.</i>

772
01:42:23,460 --> 01:42:26,460
<i>It was erect and motionless,
like the others.</i>

773
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,670
<i>An insane resolve possessed me.</i>

774
01:42:31,300 --> 01:42:34,300
<i>I would give my life to the Martians,
here and now.</i>

775
01:42:50,100 --> 01:42:52,425
<i>I marched recklessly towards the titan</i>

776
01:42:52,550 --> 01:42:57,490
<i>and saw that a multitude of black birds
was circling and clustering about the hood.</i>

777
01:42:57,580 --> 01:42:59,660
<i>I began running along the road.</i>

778
01:42:59,740 --> 01:43:03,550
<i>I felt no fear, only a wild,
trembling exultation,</i>

779
01:43:03,710 --> 01:43:06,875
<i>as I ran up the hill towards
the motionless monster.</i>

780
01:43:06,950 --> 01:43:09,090
<i>Out of the hood hung red shreds,</i>

781
01:43:09,130 --> 01:43:12,920
<i>at which the hungry birds
now peeked and tore.</i>

782
01:43:24,075 --> 01:43:31,230
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one, he said

783
01:43:33,470 --> 01:43:39,725
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one

784
01:43:39,975 --> 01:43:43,450
But still they come!

785
01:43:56,010 --> 01:43:58,300
<i>I scrambled up
to the crest of Primrose Hill,</i>

786
01:43:58,450 --> 01:44:00,390
<i>and the Martians' camp was below me.</i>

787
01:44:00,470 --> 01:44:02,425
<i>A mighty space it was,</i>

788
01:44:02,500 --> 01:44:05,250
<i>and scattered about it,
in their overturned machines,</i>

789
01:44:05,350 --> 01:44:07,400
<i>were the Martians, dead.</i>

790
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:10,860
<i>Slain, after all man's devices
had failed,</i>

791
01:44:10,925 --> 01:44:13,575
<i>by the humblest things upon the Earth,</i>

792
01:44:13,690 --> 01:44:17,975
<i>bacteria, minute, invisible, bacteria!</i>

793
01:44:33,130 --> 01:44:36,000
<i>These germs have plagued us
since life began.</i>

794
01:44:36,420 --> 01:44:40,100
<i>Through millions of years
we've developed a resistance to them.</i>

795
01:44:40,175 --> 01:44:43,140
<i>But there are no bacteria on Mars.</i>

796
01:44:43,725 --> 01:44:47,550
<i>Directly the invaders
arrived and drank and fed,</i>

797
01:44:47,650 --> 01:44:50,230
<i>our microscopic allies attacked them.</i>

798
01:44:50,500 --> 01:44:52,770
<i>From that moment, they were doomed!</i>

799
01:44:53,650 --> 01:45:00,000
<font color="
are a million to one, he said

800
01:45:03,025 --> 01:45:09,460
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one

801
01:45:09,540 --> 01:45:14,300
But still they come!

802
01:45:14,450 --> 01:45:20,430
Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one, he said

803
01:45:24,050 --> 01:45:30,375
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one

804
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,520
But still

805
01:45:38,850 --> 01:45:42,070
<font color="

806
01:47:17,420 --> 01:47:22,210
<i>My heart lightened gloriously
as the rising sun struck the world to fire.</i>

807
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:25,100
<i>The shadow had at last been rolled back</i>

808
01:47:25,220 --> 01:47:28,375
<i>and I felt a wave of emotion
close to tears.</i>

809
01:47:28,640 --> 01:47:31,180
<i>Yes, the torment had ended.</i>

810
01:47:31,220 --> 01:47:33,060
<i>The people scattered over the country,</i>

811
01:47:33,275 --> 01:47:36,100
<i>desperate, leaderless, starved.</i>

812
01:47:36,230 --> 01:47:38,300
<i>The thousands who had fled by sea,</i>

813
01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:42,225
<i>including the one most dear to me,
all would return.</i>

814
01:47:42,450 --> 01:47:47,350
<i>The pulse of life, growing stronger
and stronger, would beat again.</i>

815
01:47:58,670 --> 01:48:00,250
<i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>

816
01:48:00,290 --> 01:48:04,220
<i>please show your appreciation
for our cast of players...</i>

817
01:48:06,550 --> 01:48:09,140
<i>Vera May and William Rowland,</i>

818
01:48:09,930 --> 01:48:13,175
<i>Lily Osborne and Michael Falzon.</i>

819
01:48:23,075 --> 01:48:27,550
<i>The Sung Thoughts of the Journalist,
Marti Pellow.</i>

820
01:48:39,920 --> 01:48:43,750
<i>The Voice of Humanity, Will Stapleton.</i>

821
01:48:56,140 --> 01:48:59,350
<i>The Artilleryman, Ricky Wilson.</i>

822
01:49:12,775 --> 01:49:16,330
<i>Beth, the Parson's wife, Kerry Ellis.</i>

823
01:49:29,350 --> 01:49:32,760
<i>Parson Nathaniel, Jason Donovan.</i>

824
01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:52,700
<i>Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Wayne.</i>

825
01:50:15,300 --> 01:50:17,850
<i>The ULLA dub ULLA Strings.</i>

826
01:50:27,530 --> 01:50:32,030
<i>The Black Smoke Band, Kennedy Aitchison,</i>

827
01:50:33,110 --> 01:50:35,030
<i>Accy Yeats,</i>

828
01:50:35,425 --> 01:50:37,450
<i>Julia Thornton,</i>

829
01:50:37,540 --> 01:50:39,250
<i>Laurie Wisefield,</i>

830
01:50:39,910 --> 01:50:41,625
<i>Tom Woodstock,</i>

831
01:50:42,150 --> 01:50:43,750
<i>Steve Turner,</i>

832
01:50:44,380 --> 01:50:47,920
<i>Neil Angilley, Chris Spedding,</i>

833
01:50:48,750 --> 01:50:50,510
<i>and Herbie Flowers.</i>

834
01:50:52,450 --> 01:50:53,700
<i>Ladies and gentlemen,</i>

835
01:50:53,825 --> 01:50:57,680
<i>please show your appreciation
for the on-screen ensemble.</i>

836
01:51:10,780 --> 01:51:15,000
<i>Carrie, the Journalist's fiancée,
Anna-Marie Wayne.</i>

837
01:51:25,670 --> 01:51:28,460
<i>And the Journalist, Liam Neeson.</i>

838
01:51:43,520 --> 01:51:45,600
<i>No one would have believed.</i>

839
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:06,500
<i>As life returns to normal,
and man is again supreme,</i>

840
01:52:06,540 --> 01:52:11,500
<i>the question of another attack from Mars
causes universal concern.</i>

841
01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:13,670
<i>Is our planet safe,</i>

842
01:52:13,725 --> 01:52:16,900
<i>or is this time of peace
merely a reprieve?</i>

843
01:52:17,750 --> 01:52:20,100
<i>It may be that across
the immensity of space,</i>

844
01:52:20,175 --> 01:52:24,725
<i>they have learned their lessons
and even now await their opportunity.</i>

845
01:52:25,350 --> 01:52:28,560
<i>Perhaps the future belongs not to us,</i>

846
01:52:28,650 --> 01:52:29,770
<i>but to the Martians.</i>

847
01:52:55,590 --> 01:52:57,340
It's looking good.

848
01:52:57,400 --> 01:52:58,880
It's going good.

849
01:52:58,970 --> 01:53:03,180
We're getting great pictures here
at NASA Control, Pasadena.

850
01:53:03,220 --> 01:53:08,450
The landing-craft touched down on Mars
28 kilometres from the aim point.

851
01:53:08,850 --> 01:53:11,250
We're looking at a remarkable landscape,

852
01:53:11,560 --> 01:53:15,375
littered with different kinds of rocks,
red, purple...

853
01:53:15,730 --> 01:53:16,940
How about that, Bermuda?

854
01:53:17,030 --> 01:53:20,750
<i>Fantastic! Look at that dune-field.</i>

855
01:53:21,990 --> 01:53:24,160
Now wait, I'm getting a no-go signal.

856
01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:26,580
Now I'm losing one of the craft.

857
01:53:26,750 --> 01:53:28,210
Hey, Bermuda, you getting it?

858
01:53:28,250 --> 01:53:31,830
<i>No, I lost contact.
There's a lot of dust blowing up there.</i>

859
01:53:33,170 --> 01:53:35,050
Now I've lost the second craft.

860
01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:36,880
We got problems.

861
01:53:36,920 --> 01:53:39,175
<i>All contact lost, Pasadena.</i>

862
01:53:39,430 --> 01:53:41,475
<i>Maybe the antenna's...</i>

863
01:53:42,350 --> 01:53:44,760
What's that flare? You see it?

864
01:53:44,900 --> 01:53:47,100
A green flare, coming from Mars.

865
01:53:47,450 --> 01:53:50,190
Kind of a green mist behind it.

866
01:53:50,270 --> 01:53:51,850
It's getting closer!

867
01:53:51,940 --> 01:53:53,810
You see it, Bermuda?

868
01:53:55,100 --> 01:53:56,940
Come in, Bermuda!

869
01:53:58,250 --> 01:54:00,240
Houston, come in!

870
01:54:00,780 --> 01:54:02,570
What's going on?

871
01:54:02,850 --> 01:54:06,410
Tracking Station 43, Canberra,
come in Canberra!

872
01:54:08,350 --> 01:54:11,210
Tracking Station 63,
can you hear me, Madrid?

873
01:54:13,300 --> 01:54:14,920
Can anybody hear me?

874
01:54:15,525 --> 01:54:21,470
Come in, come in, come in,
come in, come in, come in,

875
01:54:21,550 --> 01:54:25,350
...come in, come in, come in.

876
01:54:35,200 --> 01:54:39,320
<i>The problem is,
of course, the humans!</i>