1 00:00:17,419 --> 00:00:21,703 Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of H.G. Wells 2 00:00:24,277 --> 00:00:27,238 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS 3 00:01:52,060 --> 00:01:54,826 Mars is incapable of sustaining life. 4 00:01:55,311 --> 00:01:58,550 Our efforts to sustain the biosphere are exhausted. 5 00:01:59,102 --> 00:02:00,727 The water tables and tempratures 6 00:02:01,129 --> 00:02:03,923 decrease annually as does our population. 7 00:02:04,431 --> 00:02:08,517 The only consequential course of action is the conquest 8 00:02:08,886 --> 00:02:14,066 and occupation of Earth, our young, sunward neighbour. 9 00:02:16,869 --> 00:02:20,105 Earth is abundant with life and resources are bountiful. 10 00:02:20,772 --> 00:02:25,395 The environment will seem uncomfortable but not inhibitive. 11 00:02:26,292 --> 00:02:28,382 The problem is of course the humans. 12 00:02:29,218 --> 00:02:31,669 They have developed primitive intelligence. 13 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,001 Yet, their society is structured 14 00:02:35,002 --> 00:02:37,482 around perpetual conquest and conflict. 15 00:02:38,558 --> 00:02:42,299 A rapid offensive to their social and economic heart, 16 00:02:42,905 --> 00:02:46,337 should prevent any significant opposition. 17 00:02:47,909 --> 00:02:51,527 The means and methods for this attack are already being realised. 18 00:02:53,581 --> 00:02:57,932 A large scale hydrogen accelerator will be constructed. 19 00:02:58,774 --> 00:03:02,879 This will launch suspension pods carrying the assault forces. 20 00:03:42,603 --> 00:03:47,268 Part one: The Coming of the Martians 21 00:03:51,004 --> 00:03:54,790 No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, 22 00:03:55,413 --> 00:03:59,207 that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. 23 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,669 No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized 24 00:04:03,182 --> 00:04:05,607 as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm 25 00:04:06,152 --> 00:04:07,963 and multiply in a drop of water. 26 00:04:08,636 --> 00:04:11,739 Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. 27 00:04:12,746 --> 00:04:18,438 And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours 28 00:04:18,931 --> 00:04:20,876 regarded this earth with envious eyes, 29 00:04:22,302 --> 00:04:27,162 and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us. 30 00:08:42,692 --> 00:08:46,860 At midnight, on the 12th of August, a huge mass of luminous gas 31 00:08:47,382 --> 00:08:49,166 erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth. 32 00:08:50,210 --> 00:08:54,756 Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling towards us, 33 00:08:55,216 --> 00:08:56,345 came the first of the missiles 34 00:08:56,696 --> 00:08:58,496 that were to bring so much calamity to Earth. 35 00:08:59,546 --> 00:09:01,633 As I watched, there was another jet of gas. 36 00:09:02,448 --> 00:09:05,076 It was another missile, starting on its way. 37 00:09:36,213 --> 00:09:38,218 And that's how it was for the next ten nights. 38 00:09:39,074 --> 00:09:41,225 A flare, spurting out from Mars. 39 00:09:41,747 --> 00:09:44,778 Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it; 40 00:09:45,310 --> 00:09:48,336 a beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight. 41 00:09:49,494 --> 00:09:52,747 Ogilby, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. 42 00:09:53,224 --> 00:09:55,957 He was convinced there could be no living thing 43 00:09:56,369 --> 00:09:58,928 on that remote,forbidding planet. 44 00:10:01,091 --> 00:10:03,889 The chances of anything coming from Mars 45 00:10:04,431 --> 00:10:06,954 Are a million to one, he said 46 00:10:10,355 --> 00:10:13,617 The chances of anything coming from Mars 47 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:20,645 Are a million to one, but still, they come... 48 00:10:22,394 --> 00:10:24,752 Then came the night the first missile approached Earth. 49 00:10:25,396 --> 00:10:27,417 It was thought to be an ordinary falling star, 50 00:10:27,952 --> 00:10:30,626 but next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the common, 51 00:10:31,114 --> 00:10:33,240 and Ogilby came to examine what lay there. 52 00:10:34,025 --> 00:10:39,063 A cylinder, thirty yards across, glowing hot, with faint sounds 53 00:10:39,490 --> 00:10:41,355 of movement coming from within. 54 00:10:42,324 --> 00:10:46,168 Suddenly the top began moving: rotating, unscrewing; 55 00:10:47,210 --> 00:10:50,127 and Ogilby feared there was a man inside trying to escape. 56 00:10:50,633 --> 00:10:53,026 He rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him 57 00:10:53,407 --> 00:10:54,729 before he could burn himself on the metal. 58 00:10:56,422 --> 00:10:59,346 The chances of anything coming from Mars 59 00:10:59,836 --> 00:11:02,246 Are a million to one, he said 60 00:11:05,530 --> 00:11:08,961 The chances of anything coming from Mars 61 00:11:09,331 --> 00:11:15,326 Are a million to one, but still, they come... 62 00:11:16,917 --> 00:11:20,444 Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars 63 00:11:20,964 --> 00:11:23,279 Are a million to one, he said 64 00:11:26,435 --> 00:11:29,712 The chances of anything coming from Mars 65 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:35,944 Are a million to one, but still, they come... 66 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:27,238 It seems totally incredible to me now that everyone spent that evening 67 00:12:27,763 --> 00:12:29,113 as though it were just like any other. 68 00:12:36,852 --> 00:12:39,612 From the railway station came the sound of shunting trains, 69 00:12:39,987 --> 00:12:44,189 ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance. 70 00:12:51,003 --> 00:12:53,593 It all seemed so safe and tranquil. 71 00:14:07,293 --> 00:14:09,472 Next morning a crowd gathered on the common, 72 00:14:10,257 --> 00:14:12,907 hypnotized by the unscrewing of the cylinder. 73 00:14:14,030 --> 00:14:17,818 Two feet of shining screw projected when suddenly, 74 00:14:18,616 --> 00:14:20,024 the lid fell off. 75 00:14:29,242 --> 00:14:33,155 Two luminous, disk- like eyes appeared above the rim. 76 00:14:34,333 --> 00:14:39,764 A huge rounded bulk, larger than a bear, rose up slowly, 77 00:14:40,190 --> 00:14:41,897 glistening like wet leather. 78 00:14:42,615 --> 00:14:47,078 Its lipless mouth quivered and slathered, and snakelike tentacles 79 00:14:47,493 --> 00:14:50,337 writhed as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated. 80 00:16:13,285 --> 00:16:15,209 A few young men crept closer to the pit. 81 00:16:16,211 --> 00:16:20,654 A tall funnel rose and an invisible ray of heat leapt from man to man, 82 00:16:21,271 --> 00:16:24,664 and there was a bright glare as each was instantly turned to fire. 83 00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:28,231 Every tree and bush became a mass of flames at the touch of this 84 00:16:28,684 --> 00:16:31,153 savage, unearthly heat ray. 85 00:18:25,071 --> 00:18:28,416 People clawed their way off the common, and I ran too. 86 00:18:28,957 --> 00:18:32,123 I felt I was being toyed with, that when I was on the very verge 87 00:18:32,618 --> 00:18:35,341 of safety this mysterious death would leap after me and strike me down. 88 00:18:36,433 --> 00:18:40,271 At last I reached Maybury Hill, and in the dim coolness of my home 89 00:18:40,941 --> 00:18:42,907 I wrote an account for my newspaper 90 00:18:43,424 --> 00:18:46,635 before I sank into a , haunted sleep. 91 00:19:44,719 --> 00:19:47,047 I awoke to alien sounds of hammering from the pit 92 00:19:47,564 --> 00:19:50,155 and hurried to the railway station to buy the paper. 93 00:19:59,538 --> 00:20:03,869 Around me, the daily routine of life, working, eating, sleeping, 94 00:20:04,365 --> 00:20:07,954 was continuing serenely as it had for countless years. 95 00:20:17,537 --> 00:20:20,074 On Horsell Common, the Martians continued 96 00:20:20,479 --> 00:20:22,347 hammering and stirring, sleepless, 97 00:20:22,712 --> 00:20:25,764 indefatigable, at work on the machines they were making. 98 00:20:26,374 --> 00:20:29,421 Now and again a light like the beam of a warship's searchlight 99 00:20:29,841 --> 00:20:33,658 would sweep the common, and the heat ray was ready to follow. 100 00:22:50,472 --> 00:22:53,348 In the afternoon, a company of soldiers came through 101 00:22:53,998 --> 00:22:57,123 and deployed along the common to form a cordon. 102 00:23:10,112 --> 00:23:14,629 That evening, there was a violent crash and I realized with horror 103 00:23:15,058 --> 00:23:17,346 that my home was within range of the Martian's heat ray. 104 00:23:30,219 --> 00:23:33,397 At dawn, a falling star with a trail of green mist 105 00:23:33,865 --> 00:23:36,532 landed with a flash like summer lightning. 106 00:23:37,099 --> 00:23:38,717 This was the second cylinder. 107 00:25:23,012 --> 00:25:26,614 The hammering from the pit and the pounding of guns grew louder. 108 00:25:27,618 --> 00:25:30,802 My fear rose at the sound of someone creeping into the house. 109 00:25:31,856 --> 00:25:33,711 Then I saw it was a young artilleryman, 110 00:25:34,403 --> 00:25:36,857 weary, streaked with blood and dirt. 111 00:25:37,449 --> 00:25:41,438 Anyone here? - Come in. Here, drink this. 112 00:25:41,938 --> 00:25:43,934 Thank you. - What's happened? 113 00:25:45,099 --> 00:25:48,262 They wiped us out. Hundreds dead, maybe thousands. 114 00:25:48,983 --> 00:25:50,344 The heat ray? - The Martians. 115 00:25:50,816 --> 00:25:52,958 They were inside the hoods of machines they'd made, 116 00:25:53,424 --> 00:25:57,081 massive metal things on legs. Giant machines that walked. 117 00:25:57,816 --> 00:26:00,844 They attacked us. They wiped us out. 118 00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:02,800 Machines? - Fighting machines, 119 00:26:02,871 --> 00:26:05,326 picking up men and bashing them against trees. 120 00:26:05,770 --> 00:26:08,969 Just hunks of metal, but they knew exactly what they were doing. 121 00:26:10,058 --> 00:26:12,183 Hmm. There was another cylinder came last night. 122 00:26:12,629 --> 00:26:14,815 Yes. Yes, it looked bound for London. 123 00:26:15,253 --> 00:26:18,174 London! Carrie! I hadn't dreamed there could be danger 124 00:26:18,517 --> 00:26:20,765 to Carrie and her father, so many miles away. 125 00:26:22,217 --> 00:26:23,506 I must go to London at once. 126 00:26:23,823 --> 00:26:25,864 And me, got to report to headquarters, 127 00:26:26,649 --> 00:26:28,119 if there's anything left of it. 128 00:27:18,590 --> 00:27:21,411 At Byfleet, we came upon an inn, but it was deserted. 129 00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:25,505 Is everybody dead? - Not everybody, look... 130 00:27:26,283 --> 00:27:28,576 Six cannons with gunners standing by. 131 00:27:28,987 --> 00:27:30,648 Bows and arrows against the lightning. 132 00:27:31,180 --> 00:27:33,884 They haven't seen the heat ray yet. 133 00:28:05,609 --> 00:28:07,152 We hurried along the road to Weybridge. 134 00:28:08,070 --> 00:28:10,016 Suddenly, there was a heavy explosion. 135 00:28:10,973 --> 00:28:13,649 The Ground heaved, windows shatterd 136 00:28:14,190 --> 00:28:16,136 and gusts of smoke erupted into the air. 137 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:20,580 Look! There they are! What did I tell you! 138 00:28:43,148 --> 00:28:46,912 Quickly, one after the other, four of the fighting machines appeared. 139 00:28:47,529 --> 00:28:50,185 Monstrous tripods, higher than the tallest steeple, 140 00:28:50,660 --> 00:28:52,764 striding over the pine trees and smashing them, 141 00:28:53,226 --> 00:28:55,225 walking engines of glittering metal. 142 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:58,553 Each carried a huge funnel and I realized with horror 143 00:28:58,938 --> 00:29:00,678 that I'd seen this awful thing before. 144 00:29:39,525 --> 00:29:41,524 A fifth machine appeared on the far bank. 145 00:29:42,076 --> 00:29:43,745 It raised itself to full height, 146 00:29:44,164 --> 00:29:45,892 flourished the funnel high in the air, 147 00:29:46,304 --> 00:29:50,156 and the ghostly terrible heat ray struck the town. 148 00:29:57,814 --> 00:30:00,674 As it struck, all five fighting machines exulted, 149 00:30:01,091 --> 00:30:04,602 emitting deafening howls which roared like thunder. 150 00:32:45,914 --> 00:32:49,635 The six guns we had seen now fired simultaneously, 151 00:32:50,309 --> 00:32:51,927 decapitating a fighting machine. 152 00:32:52,789 --> 00:32:55,974 The Martian inside the hood was slain, splashed to the four winds, 153 00:32:56,542 --> 00:32:59,521 and the body, nothing now but an intricate device of metal, 154 00:33:00,029 --> 00:33:01,631 went whirling to destruction. 155 00:33:02,290 --> 00:33:05,562 As the other monsters advanced, people ran away blindly, 156 00:33:05,968 --> 00:33:09,176 the artilleryman among them, but I jumped into the water 157 00:33:09,585 --> 00:33:11,781 and hid until forced up to breathe. 158 00:33:12,282 --> 00:33:16,259 Now the guns spoke again, but this time the heat ray 159 00:33:16,698 --> 00:33:18,877 sent them to oblivion. 160 00:33:59,467 --> 00:34:02,165 With a white flash the heat ray swept across the river. 161 00:34:02,717 --> 00:34:06,185 Scalded, half blinded and agonized, I staggered through leaping, 162 00:34:06,588 --> 00:34:08,109 hissing water towards the shore. 163 00:34:08,624 --> 00:34:12,731 I fell in full sight of the Martians, expecting nothing but death. 164 00:34:13,163 --> 00:34:15,527 The foot of a fighting machine came down close to my head, 165 00:34:15,884 --> 00:34:18,971 then lifted again as the four Martians carried away the debris 166 00:34:19,318 --> 00:34:23,739 of their fallen comrade, and I realized that by a miracle, 167 00:34:24,168 --> 00:34:25,336 I had escaped. 168 00:35:33,187 --> 00:35:36,645 For three days I fought my way along roads packed with refugees, 169 00:35:37,139 --> 00:35:39,102 the homeless, burdened with boxes 170 00:35:39,475 --> 00:35:41,308 and bundles containing their valuables. 171 00:35:41,767 --> 00:35:43,785 All that was of value to me was in London. 172 00:35:44,945 --> 00:35:47,512 By the time I reached their little red brick house, 173 00:35:48,149 --> 00:35:50,655 Carrie and her father were gone. 174 00:36:00,151 --> 00:36:05,929 The summer sun is fading as the year grows old, 175 00:36:08,144 --> 00:36:13,274 And darker days are drawing near, 176 00:36:16,817 --> 00:36:22,320 The winter winds will be much colder, 177 00:36:23,085 --> 00:36:27,098 Now you're not here. 178 00:36:33,659 --> 00:36:39,236 I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky 179 00:36:41,623 --> 00:36:47,779 And one by one they disappear, 180 00:36:49,617 --> 00:36:54,493 I wish that I was flying with them 181 00:36:55,524 --> 00:36:58,826 Now you're not here. 182 00:37:00,774 --> 00:37:06,747 Like the sun through the trees you came to love me, 183 00:37:08,972 --> 00:37:17,021 Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away... 184 00:37:29,169 --> 00:37:34,555 Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way, 185 00:37:36,873 --> 00:37:42,064 You always loved this time of year 186 00:37:44,587 --> 00:37:49,684 Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now 187 00:37:50,422 --> 00:37:53,234 Cause you're not here 188 00:37:54,173 --> 00:37:57,438 Cause you're not here 189 00:37:58,012 --> 00:38:01,598 Cause you're not here 190 00:38:18,134 --> 00:38:20,822 Fire suddenly leapt from house to house. 191 00:38:21,346 --> 00:38:25,479 The population panicked and ran, and I was swept along with them, 192 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,738 aimless and lost without Carrie. 193 00:38:28,566 --> 00:38:31,768 Finally, I headed eastward for the ocean 194 00:38:32,131 --> 00:38:36,036 and my only hope of survival: a boat out of England. 195 00:38:36,576 --> 00:38:42,024 Like the sun through the trees you came to love me, 196 00:38:43,890 --> 00:38:50,267 Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away... 197 00:39:03,852 --> 00:39:09,572 A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes 198 00:39:11,795 --> 00:39:17,129 As if to hide a lonely tear 199 00:39:19,578 --> 00:39:24,582 My life will be forever autumn, 200 00:39:25,801 --> 00:39:28,393 Cause you're not here 201 00:39:29,393 --> 00:39:32,387 Cause you're not here 202 00:39:33,049 --> 00:39:37,531 Cause you're not here 203 00:39:44,602 --> 00:39:47,768 As I hastened through Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate, 204 00:39:48,181 --> 00:39:51,069 more and more people joined the painful exodus. 205 00:39:51,510 --> 00:39:56,009 Sad, weary women, their children stumbling in the street with tears, 206 00:39:56,481 --> 00:39:59,321 their men bitter and angry, the rich rubbing shoulders 207 00:39:59,709 --> 00:40:01,351 with beggars and outcasts. 208 00:40:02,382 --> 00:40:05,706 Dogs snarled and whined, the horse's bits were covered with foam, 209 00:40:06,283 --> 00:40:10,156 and here and there were wounded soldiers, as helpless as the rest. 210 00:40:25,169 --> 00:40:28,811 We saw tripods wading up the Thames, cutting through bridges 211 00:40:29,186 --> 00:40:30,322 as though they were paper. 212 00:40:30,931 --> 00:40:36,308 Waterloo bridge, Westminster bridge, one appeared above Big Ben. 213 00:40:57,419 --> 00:40:59,271 Never before in the history of the world, 214 00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:02,683 had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. 215 00:41:03,355 --> 00:41:06,294 This was no disciplined march, it was a stampede, 216 00:41:06,716 --> 00:41:10,451 without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed 217 00:41:10,938 --> 00:41:13,321 and unprovisioned driving headlong. 218 00:41:14,425 --> 00:41:17,611 It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, 219 00:41:18,269 --> 00:41:20,701 of the massacre of mankind. 220 00:41:43,672 --> 00:41:47,064 A vast crowd buffeted me towards the already packed steamer. 221 00:41:47,930 --> 00:41:50,436 I looked up enviously at those safely on board... 222 00:41:51,182 --> 00:41:54,183 straight into the eyes of my beloved Carrie. 223 00:41:55,059 --> 00:41:57,596 At sight of me she began to fight her way along the packed deck 224 00:41:57,650 --> 00:41:58,937 to the gangplank. 225 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:03,154 At that very moment, it was raised, and I caught a last glimpse 226 00:42:03,584 --> 00:42:08,451 of her despairing face as the crowd swept me away from her. 227 00:42:08,999 --> 00:42:13,976 Like the sun through the trees you came to love me, 228 00:42:16,220 --> 00:42:22,160 Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away... 229 00:42:35,766 --> 00:42:41,118 Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way 230 00:42:43,359 --> 00:42:48,452 You always loved this time of year 231 00:42:51,090 --> 00:42:56,313 Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now 232 00:42:57,156 --> 00:43:00,047 Cause you're not here 233 00:43:00,885 --> 00:43:03,997 Cause you're not here 234 00:43:04,580 --> 00:43:07,844 Cause you're not here 235 00:43:32,886 --> 00:43:36,934 The steamer began to move slowly away, but on the landward horizon 236 00:43:37,345 --> 00:43:39,235 appeared the silhouette of a fighting machine. 237 00:43:39,966 --> 00:43:43,528 Another came, and another, striding over hills and trees, 238 00:43:44,034 --> 00:43:47,000 plunging far out to sea and blocking the exit of the steamer. 239 00:43:47,738 --> 00:43:52,176 Between them lay the silent, gray, ironclad Thunderchild. 240 00:43:53,038 --> 00:43:56,499 Slowly it moved towards shore, then with a deafening roar 241 00:43:56,925 --> 00:44:00,897 and whoosh of spray it swung about and drove at full speed towards 242 00:44:01,256 --> 00:44:02,190 the waiting Martians. 243 00:44:04,626 --> 00:44:07,458 There were ships of shapes and sizes, 244 00:44:07,878 --> 00:44:10,094 Scattered out along the bay 245 00:44:10,561 --> 00:44:13,404 And I thought I heard her calling, 246 00:44:13,828 --> 00:44:16,331 As the steamer pulled away 247 00:44:16,791 --> 00:44:19,690 The invaders must have seen them 248 00:44:20,027 --> 00:44:22,785 As across the coast they filed 249 00:44:23,506 --> 00:44:26,280 Standing firm between them, 250 00:44:27,822 --> 00:44:32,392 There lay Thunderchild 251 00:44:35,755 --> 00:44:38,415 Moving swiftly through the waters, 252 00:44:38,770 --> 00:44:41,448 Cannons blazing as she came, 253 00:44:41,877 --> 00:44:44,682 Brought a mighty metal warlord 254 00:44:45,065 --> 00:44:47,606 Crashing down in sheets of flame, 255 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,772 Sensing victory was nearing, 256 00:44:51,179 --> 00:44:54,117 Thinking fortune must have smiled, 257 00:44:54,576 --> 00:44:57,533 People started cheering, 258 00:44:58,674 --> 00:45:06,949 "Come on Thunderchild! Come on Thunderchild!" 259 00:45:11,514 --> 00:45:14,885 The Martians released their black smoke, but the ship sped on, 260 00:45:15,569 --> 00:45:17,362 cutting down one of the tripod figures. 261 00:45:17,815 --> 00:45:20,029 Instantly, the others raised their heat rays, 262 00:45:20,443 --> 00:45:23,490 and melted the Thunderchild's valiant heart. 263 00:46:27,201 --> 00:46:30,124 Lashing ropes and smashing timbers, 264 00:46:30,649 --> 00:46:33,229 Flashing heat rays pierced the deck, 265 00:46:33,622 --> 00:46:36,220 Dashing hopes for our deliverance, 266 00:46:36,616 --> 00:46:39,210 As we watched the sinking wreck, 267 00:46:39,642 --> 00:46:42,305 With the smoke of battle clearing, 268 00:46:42,698 --> 00:46:45,565 Over graves and waves defiled, 269 00:46:46,131 --> 00:46:54,296 Slowly disappearing, farewell Thunderchild! 270 00:46:54,983 --> 00:47:04,849 Slowly disappearing, farewell Thunderchild! 271 00:47:08,575 --> 00:47:12,265 Farewell Thunderchild! 272 00:47:14,860 --> 00:47:23,679 Farewell Thunderchild, child, child, child, child... 273 00:47:24,656 --> 00:47:26,815 When the smoke cleared, the little steamer had reached 274 00:47:27,156 --> 00:47:29,433 the misty horizon, and Carrie was safe. 275 00:47:30,456 --> 00:47:33,421 But the Thunderchild had vanished forever, taking with her 276 00:47:33,789 --> 00:47:35,130 man's last hope of victory. 277 00:47:36,137 --> 00:47:40,239 The leaden sky was lit by green flashes, cylinder following cylinder, 278 00:47:40,675 --> 00:47:43,121 and no one and nothing was left now to fight them. 279 00:47:43,619 --> 00:47:46,243 The earth belonged to the Martians. 280 00:49:01,575 --> 00:49:08,006 Part Two: The Earth Under the Martians 281 00:49:26,537 --> 00:49:31,694 Next day, the dawn was a brilliant, fiery red and I wandered 282 00:49:32,142 --> 00:49:35,946 through the weird and lurid landscape of another planet, 283 00:49:36,546 --> 00:49:38,008 for the vegetation that gives Mars 284 00:49:38,390 --> 00:49:41,280 its red appearance had taken root on earth. 285 00:49:42,264 --> 00:49:44,394 As man had succumbed to the Martians, 286 00:49:44,807 --> 00:49:47,458 so our land now succumbed to the red weed. 287 00:53:53,705 --> 00:53:55,821 Wherever there was a stream the red weed clung 288 00:53:56,429 --> 00:53:58,461 and grew with frightening voraciousness, 289 00:53:58,885 --> 00:54:02,055 its claw- like fronds choking the movement of the water. 290 00:54:02,767 --> 00:54:05,783 And then it began to creep like a slimy red animal 291 00:54:06,185 --> 00:54:11,504 across the land covering field and ditch and tree and hedgerow 292 00:54:11,961 --> 00:54:16,792 with living scarlet feelers, crawling, crawling. 293 00:54:58,671 --> 00:55:00,932 I suddenly noticed the body of a parson lying on the ground 294 00:55:01,391 --> 00:55:02,556 in a ruined churchyard. 295 00:55:03,537 --> 00:55:06,001 I felt unable to leave him to the mercy of the red weed, 296 00:55:07,023 --> 00:55:08,778 and decided to bury him, decently. 297 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,732 Nathaniel! Nathaniel! 298 00:55:21,307 --> 00:55:24,557 The parson's eyes flickered open. He was alive! 299 00:55:44,733 --> 00:55:48,132 Nathaniel, I saw the church burst into flame, are you all right? 300 00:55:48,266 --> 00:55:49,429 Don't touch me! 301 00:55:49,655 --> 00:55:51,279 But it's me, Beth! Your wife! 302 00:55:51,768 --> 00:55:54,306 No! You're one of them- a devil! 303 00:55:54,892 --> 00:55:58,141 He's delirious! - Lies! I saw the devil's sign! 304 00:55:58,505 --> 00:56:00,905 What are you saying? - The green flash in the sky. 305 00:56:01,529 --> 00:56:04,542 His demons were here all along, in our hearts and souls, 306 00:56:05,281 --> 00:56:09,915 just waiting for a sign from Him. And now they're destroying our world! 307 00:56:10,331 --> 00:56:12,634 But they're not devils, they're Martians. 308 00:56:13,377 --> 00:56:17,468 We must leave here. - Look, a house still standing, 309 00:56:17,878 --> 00:56:19,145 come Nathaniel, quickly. 310 00:56:19,548 --> 00:56:22,568 We took shelter in a cottage, and black smoke spread, hemming us in. 311 00:56:23,453 --> 00:56:26,336 Then a fighting machine came across the field spraying jets of steam 312 00:56:26,769 --> 00:56:28,661 that turned the smoke into thick, black dust. 313 00:56:36,743 --> 00:56:38,842 Dear God, help us! 314 00:56:39,251 --> 00:56:42,376 The voice of the Devil is heard in our land! 315 00:56:45,486 --> 00:56:47,365 Listen, do you hear them drawing near 316 00:56:47,769 --> 00:56:49,696 In their search for the sinners? 317 00:56:52,264 --> 00:56:54,512 Feeding on the power of our fear 318 00:56:55,043 --> 00:56:57,663 And the evil within us? 319 00:56:59,055 --> 00:57:03,714 In carnation of Satan's creation of all that we dread 320 00:57:06,261 --> 00:57:12,806 When the demons arrive those alive will be better off dead 321 00:57:13,347 --> 00:57:16,515 There must be something worth living for 322 00:57:18,365 --> 00:57:22,944 There must be something worth trying for 323 00:57:24,250 --> 00:57:27,849 Even something worth dying for 324 00:57:29,489 --> 00:57:32,266 And if one man can stand tall 325 00:57:32,856 --> 00:57:35,303 There must be hope for us all 326 00:57:36,515 --> 00:57:41,091 Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man 327 00:57:47,005 --> 00:57:52,168 Once, there was a time when I believed without hesitation 328 00:57:53,617 --> 00:57:56,409 That the power of love and truth could conquer all 329 00:57:56,883 --> 00:58:00,302 In the name of salvation 330 00:58:00,958 --> 00:58:05,656 Tell me what kind of weapon is love when it comes to the fight? 331 00:58:07,917 --> 00:58:13,943 And just how much protection is truth against all Satan's might? 332 00:58:14,962 --> 00:58:18,437 There must be something worth living for 333 00:58:19,923 --> 00:58:24,392 There must be something worth trying for 334 00:58:25,327 --> 00:58:29,363 Even some things worth dying for 335 00:58:30,906 --> 00:58:33,711 And if one man could stand tall 336 00:58:34,245 --> 00:58:37,391 There must be some hope for us all 337 00:58:38,122 --> 00:58:42,878 Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man 338 00:58:57,209 --> 00:59:03,118 People loved you, and trusted you, came to you for help... 339 00:59:03,807 --> 00:59:09,100 Didn't I warn them this would happen? Be on your guard, I said, 340 00:59:09,783 --> 00:59:11,847 for the Evil One never rests... 341 00:59:13,992 --> 00:59:20,598 I said exorcise the devil! But no, they wouldn't listen, 342 00:59:21,457 --> 00:59:24,415 the demons inside them grew and grew, 343 00:59:25,172 --> 00:59:30,881 until Satan gave his signal and destroyed the world we knew! 344 00:59:31,333 --> 00:59:35,061 No Nathaniel, oh no Nathaniel, 345 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:44,099 No Nathaniel, no, there must be more to life, 346 00:59:45,307 --> 00:59:48,769 There has to be a way that we can 347 00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:53,543 Restore to life the love we used to know 348 00:59:54,036 --> 00:59:59,232 Nathaniel, no, there must be more to life, 349 01:00:00,363 --> 01:00:04,195 There has to be a way that we can 350 01:00:04,635 --> 01:00:10,403 Restore to life the light that we have lost 351 01:00:51,131 --> 01:00:53,257 Now darkness has descended on our land 352 01:00:53,691 --> 01:00:55,993 And all your prayers cannot save us 353 01:00:58,063 --> 01:01:00,067 Like fools we've let the devil take command 354 01:01:00,658 --> 01:01:04,207 Of the souls that God gave us 355 01:01:04,711 --> 01:01:09,651 To the altar of evil like lambs to the slaughter were led 356 01:01:12,088 --> 01:01:18,285 When the demons arrive the survivors will envy the dead! 357 01:01:19,305 --> 01:01:21,920 There must be something worth living for 358 01:01:22,424 --> 01:01:23,489 No, there is nothing! 359 01:01:24,027 --> 01:01:29,188 There must be something worth trying for - I don't believe it's so! 360 01:01:29,698 --> 01:01:33,430 Even something worth dying for 361 01:01:34,747 --> 01:01:37,592 If just one man could stand tall 362 01:01:38,369 --> 01:01:40,952 There would be some hope for us all, 363 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:46,760 Somewhere, somewhere in the spirit of man 364 01:01:48,502 --> 01:01:52,131 Forget about goodness and mercy, they're gone! 365 01:02:37,486 --> 01:02:41,839 Didn't I warn them? Pray, I said! 366 01:02:43,284 --> 01:02:50,163 Destroy the devil, I said! They wouldn't listen! 367 01:02:52,366 --> 01:02:57,856 I could have saved the world! But now it's too late... 368 01:02:59,222 --> 01:03:00,596 too late! 369 01:03:00,964 --> 01:03:06,329 No Nathaniel, oh no Nathaniel, 370 01:03:08,825 --> 01:03:15,187 No Nathaniel, no, there must be more to life, 371 01:03:16,245 --> 01:03:19,996 There has to be a way that we can 372 01:03:20,537 --> 01:03:24,372 Restore to life the love we used to know 373 01:03:24,875 --> 01:03:30,910 Nathaniel, no, there must be more to life, 374 01:03:31,375 --> 01:03:35,355 There has to be a way that we can 375 01:03:35,812 --> 01:03:42,877 Restore to life the light that we have lost... 376 01:04:13,813 --> 01:04:16,345 Dear God! A cylinder's landed on the house, 377 01:04:16,893 --> 01:04:18,827 and we are underneath it, in the pit! 378 01:04:28,674 --> 01:04:31,050 The Martians spent the night making a new machine. 379 01:04:31,853 --> 01:04:35,985 It was a squat, metallic spider with huge, articulated claws, 380 01:04:36,742 --> 01:04:39,180 but it, too, had a hood in which a Martian sat. 381 01:04:39,994 --> 01:04:42,282 I watched it pursuing some people across a field. 382 01:04:42,824 --> 01:04:44,562 It caught them nimbly and tossed them 383 01:04:44,931 --> 01:04:46,666 into a great metal basket upon its back. 384 01:04:51,244 --> 01:04:52,891 Beth? She’s dead! 385 01:04:57,967 --> 01:05:01,512 Buried under the rubble. Why? 386 01:05:03,609 --> 01:05:06,498 Satan! Why did you take one of your own? 387 01:05:17,107 --> 01:05:23,110 There is a curse on mankind We may as well be resigned 388 01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:32,343 To let the devil, the devil take the spirit of man 389 01:05:52,516 --> 01:05:54,846 As time passed in our dark and dusty prison, 390 01:05:55,597 --> 01:05:57,944 the parson wrestled endlessly with his doubts. 391 01:05:58,856 --> 01:06:04,159 His outcries invited death for us both, and yet I pitied him. 392 01:07:26,813 --> 01:07:29,744 Then, on the ninth day, we saw the Martians eating. 393 01:07:30,494 --> 01:07:33,424 Inside the hood of their new machine they were drawing the fresh, 394 01:07:33,886 --> 01:07:38,167 living blood of men and women and injecting it into their own veins. 395 01:07:38,657 --> 01:07:42,900 Aaah! It's a sign! I've been given a sign! 396 01:07:43,921 --> 01:07:48,429 They must be cast out, and I have been chosen to do it! 397 01:07:49,260 --> 01:07:51,774 I must confront them now! - No, parson, no! 398 01:07:52,157 --> 01:07:54,423 Those machines are just demons in another form. 399 01:07:56,007 --> 01:07:57,907 I shall destroy them with my prayers, 400 01:07:58,883 --> 01:08:02,662 I shall burn them with my holy cross. I shall... 401 01:08:06,291 --> 01:08:09,071 The curious eye of a Martian appeared at the window slit, 402 01:08:09,443 --> 01:08:11,351 and a menacing claw explored the room. 403 01:08:11,831 --> 01:08:13,677 I dragged the parson down to the coal cellar. 404 01:08:14,121 --> 01:08:16,008 I heard the Martian fumbling at the latch. 405 01:08:16,526 --> 01:08:18,789 In the darkness I could see the claw touching things, 406 01:08:19,323 --> 01:08:21,520 walls, coal, wood. 407 01:08:22,048 --> 01:08:24,897 And then, it touched my boot. I almost shouted. 408 01:08:25,676 --> 01:08:28,081 For a time it was still, and then, with a click, 409 01:08:28,495 --> 01:08:30,527 it gripped something: the parson! 410 01:08:31,044 --> 01:08:35,220 With slow, deliberate movements, his unconscious body was dragged away, 411 01:08:35,754 --> 01:08:38,104 and there was nothing I could do to prevent it. 412 01:10:43,193 --> 01:10:47,315 I crept to the blocked window slit and peered through the creeper. 413 01:10:47,924 --> 01:10:50,296 The Martians, and all their machinery, had gone! 414 01:10:50,876 --> 01:10:54,302 Trembling, I dug my way out and clambered to the top of the mound: 415 01:10:54,727 --> 01:10:55,970 not a Martian in sight! 416 01:10:56,434 --> 01:10:59,208 The day seemed dazzling bright after my imprisonment 417 01:10:59,633 --> 01:11:01,364 and the sky a glowing blue. 418 01:11:01,885 --> 01:11:05,354 Red weed covered every scrap of ground but a gentle breeze 419 01:11:05,770 --> 01:11:11,099 kept it swaying, and oh, the sweetness of the air. 420 01:12:55,278 --> 01:12:58,900 Again, I was on my way to London through towns and villages 421 01:12:59,303 --> 01:13:01,310 that were blackened ruins, totally silent, 422 01:13:01,722 --> 01:13:03,310 desolated, deserted. 423 01:13:03,881 --> 01:13:07,820 Man's empire had passed away, taken swiftly and without error 424 01:13:08,621 --> 01:13:12,365 by these creatures who were composed entirely of brain. 425 01:13:12,987 --> 01:13:15,695 Unhampered by the complex systems which make up man, 426 01:13:16,093 --> 01:13:19,258 they made and used different bodies according to their needs. 427 01:13:19,780 --> 01:13:22,885 They never tired, never slept, and never suffered, 428 01:13:23,258 --> 01:13:26,565 having long since eliminated from their planet the bacteria 429 01:13:26,954 --> 01:13:29,949 which cause all fevers and other morbidities. 430 01:13:36,001 --> 01:13:38,138 Halt! Who goes there? - Er, a friend... 431 01:13:38,613 --> 01:13:41,335 Be on your way, this is my territory! 432 01:13:42,124 --> 01:13:43,731 Your territory? What do you mean? 433 01:13:44,196 --> 01:13:47,166 Wait a minute... it's you! The man from Maybury Hill! 434 01:13:48,458 --> 01:13:52,138 Good heavens, the artilleryman. I thought you'd surely burned. 435 01:13:52,573 --> 01:13:55,441 I thought you'd surely drowned. - Have you seen any Martians? 436 01:13:55,902 --> 01:13:59,039 Everywhere. We're done for all right. - We can't just give up. 437 01:13:59,444 --> 01:14:02,753 Course we can't. It's now that we've got to start fighting. 438 01:14:03,313 --> 01:14:05,104 Not against them, cause we can't win. 439 01:14:05,567 --> 01:14:07,732 Now, we've got to fight for survival. 440 01:14:08,436 --> 01:14:12,370 I reckon we can make it. I've got a plan. 441 01:14:31,335 --> 01:14:35,413 We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. 442 01:14:35,825 --> 01:14:38,180 Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right? 443 01:14:39,532 --> 01:14:43,543 So, we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us. 444 01:14:44,136 --> 01:14:47,889 You know where? Underground. 445 01:14:48,415 --> 01:14:51,981 You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains, 446 01:14:52,443 --> 01:15:01,002 sweet and clean now after the rain, dark, quiet, safe. 447 01:15:01,421 --> 01:15:04,515 We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch. 448 01:15:05,967 --> 01:15:08,662 And what's so bad about living underground, eh? 449 01:15:09,183 --> 01:15:12,079 S'not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion. 450 01:15:22,145 --> 01:15:33,208 Take a look around you at the world we've come to know 451 01:15:34,536 --> 01:15:44,401 Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show 452 01:15:47,298 --> 01:15:56,570 Maybe from the madness, something beautiful will grow 453 01:15:58,985 --> 01:16:07,230 In a brave new world, with just a handful of men, 454 01:16:10,286 --> 01:16:15,195 We'll start... we'll start all over again! 455 01:16:16,483 --> 01:16:25,843 All over again! All over again! All over again! 456 01:16:36,621 --> 01:16:39,661 We'll build shops and hospitals and barracks, 457 01:16:40,066 --> 01:16:43,438 right under their noses, right under their feet. 458 01:16:44,268 --> 01:16:48,449 Everything we need: banks, prisons and schools. 459 01:16:49,020 --> 01:16:51,806 We'll send scouting parties to collect books and stuff, 460 01:16:52,365 --> 01:16:55,136 and men like you we'll teach the kids. 461 01:16:55,289 --> 01:17:00,567 Not poems and rubbish; science, so we can get everything working! 462 01:17:01,177 --> 01:17:03,745 We'll build villages and towns, and... 463 01:17:04,056 --> 01:17:05,426 and we'll play each other at cricket! 464 01:17:05,901 --> 01:17:09,603 Listen, maybe one day we'll capture a fighting machine, 465 01:17:10,371 --> 01:17:14,876 learn how to make em ourselves, and then: WALLOP! 466 01:17:16,525 --> 01:17:18,261 Our turn to do some wiping out! 467 01:17:18,835 --> 01:17:22,733 WHOOSH! With our heat ray! Whoosh! 468 01:17:23,259 --> 01:17:28,139 And them running and dying, beaten at their own game, 469 01:17:29,312 --> 01:17:31,351 man on top again! 470 01:18:07,554 --> 01:18:10,473 Now our domination of the earth is fading fast, 471 01:18:10,929 --> 01:18:14,131 And out of the confusion a chance has come at last, 472 01:18:14,577 --> 01:18:17,821 To build a better future from the ashes of the past, 473 01:18:18,274 --> 01:18:23,800 In a brave new world, with just a handful of men, 474 01:18:25,138 --> 01:18:28,298 We'll start all over again! 475 01:18:37,958 --> 01:18:41,498 Look, man is born in freedom, but he soon becomes a slave, 476 01:18:41,953 --> 01:18:45,286 In cages of convention from the cradle to the grave, 477 01:18:45,730 --> 01:18:48,920 The weak fall by the wayside but the strong will be saved, 478 01:18:49,396 --> 01:18:55,076 In a brave new world, with just a handful of men, 479 01:18:56,242 --> 01:18:58,969 We'll start all over again! 480 01:19:09,773 --> 01:19:12,534 I'm not trying to tell you what to be, 481 01:19:13,375 --> 01:19:16,834 Oh no, oh no, not me... 482 01:19:18,777 --> 01:19:22,635 But if mankind is to survive, the people life alive, 483 01:19:23,558 --> 01:19:28,035 They're gonna have to build this world anew 484 01:19:30,076 --> 01:19:37,876 And it's going to have to start with me and you... YES! 485 01:20:25,384 --> 01:20:28,272 I'm not trying to tell you what to be, 486 01:20:28,855 --> 01:20:32,291 Oh no, oh no, not me... 487 01:20:34,047 --> 01:20:38,205 But if mankind is to survive, the people left alive, 488 01:20:38,865 --> 01:20:43,196 They're gonna have to build this world anew 489 01:20:44,827 --> 01:20:51,281 Yes and we will have to be the chosen few... 490 01:20:52,372 --> 01:20:55,687 Just think of all the poverty, the hatred and the lies, 491 01:20:56,168 --> 01:20:59,389 And imagine the destruction of all that you despise, 492 01:20:59,856 --> 01:21:03,065 Slowly from the ashes the phoenix will arise, 493 01:21:03,491 --> 01:21:09,514 In a brave new world, with just a handful of men 494 01:21:10,257 --> 01:21:12,712 We'll start all over again! 495 01:22:06,906 --> 01:22:15,873 Take a look around you at the world you've loved so well, 496 01:22:17,665 --> 01:22:24,504 And bid the aging empire of man a last farewell 497 01:22:26,484 --> 01:22:34,719 It may not sound like heaven but at least it isn't hell 498 01:22:36,846 --> 01:22:44,630 It's a brave new world with just a handful of men, 499 01:22:47,005 --> 01:22:51,536 We'll start, we'll start all over again! 500 01:22:52,727 --> 01:22:59,219 All over again! All over again! All over again! 501 01:23:03,581 --> 01:23:06,233 I'VE GOT A PLAN! 502 01:23:08,942 --> 01:23:10,029 Can't you just see it? 503 01:23:10,415 --> 01:23:14,674 Civilization starting all over again! A second chance! 504 01:23:16,045 --> 01:23:18,228 Heh- we'll even build a railway and tunnel to the coast, 505 01:23:18,956 --> 01:23:20,362 go there for our holidays! 506 01:23:21,203 --> 01:23:23,094 Nothing can stop men like us! 507 01:23:24,001 --> 01:23:25,625 I've made a start already. 508 01:23:26,279 --> 01:23:27,738 Come on down here and have a look. 509 01:23:28,274 --> 01:23:30,750 In the cellar there was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long. 510 01:23:31,288 --> 01:23:32,877 It had taken him a week to dig. 511 01:23:33,433 --> 01:23:36,167 I could have dug that much in a day, and I suddenly had 512 01:23:36,595 --> 01:23:40,336 my first inkling of the gulf between his dreams and his power. 513 01:23:56,485 --> 01:23:59,750 It's doing the working and the thinking that wears a fellow out. 514 01:24:00,128 --> 01:24:02,944 I'm ready for a bit of a rest. How about a drink, eh? 515 01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:05,293 Nothing but champagne now I'm the boss. 516 01:24:06,303 --> 01:24:09,217 We drank, and then he insisted upon playing cards. 517 01:24:10,129 --> 01:24:12,334 With our species on the edge of extermination, 518 01:24:12,825 --> 01:24:17,075 with no prospect but a horrible death, we actually played games. 519 01:24:30,402 --> 01:24:34,300 Later he talked more of his plan, but I saw flames flashing 520 01:24:34,716 --> 01:24:37,063 in the deep blue night, red weed glowing, 521 01:24:37,516 --> 01:24:42,364 tripod figures moving distantly, and I put down my champagne glass. 522 01:24:43,157 --> 01:24:44,439 I felt a traitor to my kind, 523 01:24:45,165 --> 01:24:48,341 and I knew I must leave this strange dreamer. 524 01:25:07,841 --> 01:25:18,162 Take a look around you at the world we've come to know 525 01:25:19,850 --> 01:25:29,694 Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show? 526 01:25:32,667 --> 01:25:42,769 Maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow... 527 01:27:08,304 --> 01:27:10,424 There were a dozen dead bodies in the Euston road, 528 01:27:11,143 --> 01:27:13,501 their outlines softened by the black dust. 529 01:27:14,288 --> 01:27:19,367 All was still, houses locked and empty, shops closed, 530 01:27:20,079 --> 01:27:22,475 but looters had helped themselves to wine and food, 531 01:27:22,990 --> 01:27:26,331 and outside a jewelers some gold chains and a watch 532 01:27:26,751 --> 01:27:28,265 were scattered on the pavement. 533 01:28:11,285 --> 01:28:14,318 I stopped, staring towards the sound. 534 01:28:15,192 --> 01:28:19,235 It seemed as if that mighty desert of houses had found a voice 535 01:28:19,640 --> 01:28:21,354 for its fear and solitude. 536 01:28:52,815 --> 01:28:55,541 The desolating cry worked upon my mind. 537 01:28:56,575 --> 01:28:58,851 The wailing took possession of me. 538 01:28:59,438 --> 01:29:03,357 I was intensely weary, footsore, hungry and thirsty. 539 01:29:04,334 --> 01:29:07,343 Why was I wandering alone in this city of the dead? 540 01:29:07,888 --> 01:29:12,342 Why was I alive when London was lying in state in its black shroud? 541 01:29:13,116 --> 01:29:18,341 I felt intolerably lonely, drifting from street to empty street, 542 01:29:18,945 --> 01:29:21,694 drawn inexorably towards that cry. 543 01:30:25,273 --> 01:30:27,494 I saw, over the trees on Primrose Hill, 544 01:30:27,916 --> 01:30:30,167 the fighting machine from which the howling came. 545 01:30:30,883 --> 01:30:32,514 I crossed Regent's Canal. 546 01:30:32,966 --> 01:30:38,078 There stood a second machine, upright, but as still as the first. 547 01:30:53,482 --> 01:30:56,112 Abruptly, the sound ceased. 548 01:30:56,813 --> 01:31:00,708 Suddenly the desolation, the solitude, became unendurable. 549 01:31:01,422 --> 01:31:04,225 While that voice sounded London still seemed alive, 550 01:31:04,990 --> 01:31:08,508 now suddenly there was a change, the passing of something, 551 01:31:08,948 --> 01:31:12,781 and all that remained was this gaunt quiet. 552 01:31:15,332 --> 01:31:17,489 I looked up, and saw a third machine. 553 01:31:17,943 --> 01:31:21,290 It was erect and motionless, like the others. 554 01:31:22,968 --> 01:31:28,366 An insane resolve possessed me: I would give my life to the Martians, 555 01:31:28,881 --> 01:31:30,013 here and now. 556 01:31:44,176 --> 01:31:47,747 I marched recklessly towards the titan and saw that a multitude 557 01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,873 of black birds were circling and clustering about the hood. 558 01:31:51,378 --> 01:31:54,825 I began running along the road. I felt no fear, only a wild, 559 01:31:55,250 --> 01:31:57,385 trembling exultation as I ran up the hill 560 01:31:57,386 --> 01:31:59,520 towards the motionless monster. 561 01:32:00,180 --> 01:32:02,101 Out of the hood hung red shreds, 562 01:32:02,567 --> 01:32:04,295 at which the hungry birds now pecked and tore. 563 01:32:49,357 --> 01:32:51,356 I scrambled up to the crest of Primrose hill, 564 01:32:51,978 --> 01:32:53,770 the Martian's camp was below me. 565 01:32:54,536 --> 01:32:57,551 A mighty space it was, and scattered about it, 566 01:32:58,034 --> 01:33:00,252 in their overturned machines, were the Martians, dead, 567 01:33:00,795 --> 01:33:03,543 slain after all man's devices had failed 568 01:33:04,522 --> 01:33:07,474 by the humblest creatures on the earth: bacteria. 569 01:33:08,147 --> 01:33:11,393 Minute, invisible, bacteria. 570 01:33:25,239 --> 01:33:28,012 Directly the invaders arrived and drank and fed, 571 01:33:28,862 --> 01:33:31,148 our microscopic allies attacked them. 572 01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:34,898 From that moment, they were doomed. 573 01:35:11,034 --> 01:35:12,452 The torment was ended. 574 01:35:12,911 --> 01:35:14,460 The people scattered over the country, 575 01:35:14,879 --> 01:35:16,390 desperate, leaderless, starved, 576 01:35:16,901 --> 01:35:20,646 the thousands who had fled by sea including the one most dear to me; 577 01:35:21,461 --> 01:35:26,040 all could return, the pulse of life growing stronger and stronger 578 01:35:26,688 --> 01:35:27,850 would beat again. 579 01:40:37,070 --> 01:40:39,248 As life returns to normal, the question of another 580 01:40:39,785 --> 01:40:42,101 attack from Mars causes universal concern. 581 01:40:42,752 --> 01:40:47,038 Is our planet safe, or is this time of peace merely a reprieve? 582 01:40:47,611 --> 01:40:49,556 It may be that across the immensity of space, 583 01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:53,694 they have learned their lessons, and even now await their opportunity. 584 01:40:54,392 --> 01:40:58,422 Perhaps the future belongs not to us, but to the Martians. 585 01:41:24,695 --> 01:41:29,257 Looking good, going good, we're getting great pictures 586 01:41:29,757 --> 01:41:31,731 here at NASA control Pasadina. 587 01:41:32,316 --> 01:41:37,032 Landing craft touched down on Mars 28 kilometers from the aim point. 588 01:41:37,855 --> 01:41:39,973 We're looking at a remarkable landscape, 589 01:41:40,627 --> 01:41:42,378 littered with different kinds of rocks. 590 01:41:42,781 --> 01:41:45,695 Red, purple... how about that, Burmuda? 591 01:41:46,394 --> 01:41:49,184 Fantastic. Look at that dune field! 592 01:41:51,090 --> 01:41:53,239 Hey, wait, I- I'm getting a no- go signal. 593 01:41:54,257 --> 01:41:57,139 Now I'm losing one of the craft. Hey Burmuda, you getting it? 594 01:41:57,517 --> 01:42:00,788 Nah, lost contact. There's a lot of dust blowing up there. 595 01:42:02,316 --> 01:42:05,594 Now I lost the second craft. We got problems. 596 01:42:06,235 --> 01:42:09,534 Full contact lost, Pasadina. Maybe the antenna's... 597 01:42:11,556 --> 01:42:16,085 What's that flare? See it? A green flare coming from Mars. 598 01:42:16,717 --> 01:42:20,238 Kind of a green mist behind it. It's getting closer. 599 01:42:21,179 --> 01:42:25,569 You see it, Burmuda? Come in, Burmuda! 600 01:42:26,962 --> 01:42:29,883 Houston, come in! What's going on... 601 01:42:31,323 --> 01:42:35,141 tracking station 43 Canberra, come in Canberra! 602 01:42:36,831 --> 01:42:40,230 tracking station 63, can you hear me Madrid... 603 01:42:41,771 --> 01:42:44,088 can anybody hear me? Come in...! 604 01:42:44,956 --> 01:42:46,390 Come in...