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Film Friday: War of the Worlds (1953)

Friday, Aug. 14, 2026
6 p.m.
Cost:
Free
Add to Calendar 2026-08-14 18:00:00 2026-07-18 04:31:04 Film Friday: War of the Worlds (1953) Join us at the Chandler Museum for Film Friday and immerse yourself in this galactic adventure through "War of the Worlds"!A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and 1950s state-of-the-art, Oscar-winning special effects.Featuring, Ed Finn, the founding director for Center for Science and Education at ASU and associate director for School of Innovation and SocietyOut of this world treats provided by Spooky Swirls.Reserve Your SpotGrab your popcorn and settle in for a film screening and discussion. We’ll be exploring different genres and the reflection of culture in film as well as the effects of film on culture over the past 100 years of cinema. City of Chandler info@chandleraz.gov America/Phoenix public
War of the Worlds (1953) Movie Poster

Join us at the Chandler Museum for Film Friday and immerse yourself in this galactic adventure through "War of the Worlds"!

A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and 1950s state-of-the-art, Oscar-winning special effects.

Featuring, Ed Finn, the founding director for Center for Science and Education at ASU and associate director for School of Innovation and Society

Out of this world treats provided by Spooky Swirls.

Reserve Your Spot

Grab your popcorn and settle in for a film screening and discussion. We’ll be exploring different genres and the reflection of culture in film as well as the effects of film on culture over the past 100 years of cinema.