HG Wells
Vcitorian writer Herbert George Wells is best-known for his science fiction novels such as 'The Time Machine', 'The Fisrt Men on the Moon' and 'The War of the Worlds', though in his lifetime he was also a respected social commentator and non-fiction writer with a socialist political bent. Wells came to writing relatively late in life, though he was always an avid reader. He failed as a draper's assistant, a chemist's assistant and as a teacher (where he briefly had A.A. Milne as a student), until he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science - a placement that would serve him well in his later profession - and there he studied under the tutelage of Aldous Huxley's grandfather! A man with an insatiable curiosity about the future, he has been dubbed, alongside Jules Verne, as the Father of Science Fiction.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H.G. Wells
Dead of Night (1945)
7.7/10
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Roland Culver, Basil Radford
Michael Redgrave stars in this chilling suspense classic that follows a group of visitors to a remote country manor as they relate their nightmares to... Read more
First Men in the Moon (1964)
6.7/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer
An eccentric professor in Victorian England develops an anti-gravity invention and uses it to travel to and inside the moon, finding an insect-like ci... Read more
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds: An Historical Perspective (2005)
Director: Rod Pyle
H.G. Wells' classic tale of interplanetary invaders landing on Earth has enthralled audiences around the world for decades. This intriguing two-part d... Read more
Hollow Man (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
The History of Mr Polly (1949)
6.8/10
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Starring: John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Edward Chapman, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie
John Mills stars in this celebrated adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Mr Polly is a sensitive soul, idling away his days as a humble draper's assi... Read more
The Invisible Man (1933)
7.7/10
Director: James Whale
Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una O'Connor
A super version of HG Wells' fantasy, with Claude Rains playing the scientist who experiments with a drug which, while it makes him invisible, also tu... Read more
The Invisible Man: Series 1 (1958)
7.7/10
Starring: Lisa Daniely, Voice Of, Tim Turner, Deborah Watling, Ernest Clark
Dr Peter Brady is a British scientist experimenting with invisibility when he himself becomes invisible. As he searches for an antidote, he also work... Read more
The Invisible Man: Volume 2 (1958)
7.7/10
Director: Pennington Richards
Starring: Tim Turner, Deborah Watling, Lisa Daniely, Ernest Clark
Dr. Peter Brady is a brilliant English scientist who, working with the principles that govern the reflection of light, has developed a theory that eve... Read more
The Invisible Man: Volume 3 (1959)
7.7/10
Starring: Tim Turner
Dr. Peter Brady is a brilliant English scientist who, working with the principles that govern the reflection of light, has developed a theory that eve... Read more