Known for Writing
Herbert George Wells, known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
Born
September 21, 1866
Died
August 13, 1946 (age 79)
Birthplace
Bromley, Kent, England, UK
Filmography
80 films, 14 shows


War of the Worlds
2025 · 1h 31m · US
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world.


Country of Blind
2023 · 1h 41m · IN
Abhimanyu, an expert mountain climber falls into a strange and isolated society of "non-seeing" people - claimed to have been in existence for fifteen generations and cut off from the rest of the world. Abhimanyu decides quickly that "in country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". He fails in his efforts and gets trapped instead. - Adapted from the 1904 story of H. G. Wells of the same name.


War of the Worlds: The Attack
2023 · 1h 27m · UK
Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.


The Invisible Man
2020 · 2h 4m · AU
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.


The Invisible Man
2017 · 1h 32m · US
A modern retelling of H.G. Wells classic novel, The Invisible Man. Motivated by the death of his son, Griffin, a brilliant but eccentric scientist discovers a method to invisibility.


War of the Worlds: Goliath
2012 · 1h 25m · JP
Fifteen years have passed since the Martians’ first failed invasion of Earth. The year is 1914, and at the eve of World War I, Mars launches a sudden and more devastating second attack. A small defense force, A.R.E.S., is Earth’s only hope. The giant A.R.E.S. battle tripod GOLIATH is called up to war, and its young multinational crew must face their fears in their struggle to save Humanity from the alien invaders.


War of the Worlds the True Story
2012 · 1h 37m
What if the Earth/Mars battle from H.G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds wasn't fiction but actually fact? Like the famous 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast that caused Americans to believe an actual invasion was in progress, the movie assumes an Earth/Mars War in 1900 actually occurred and is presented as the first hand memoir of journalist Bertie Wells, the last living survivor as he struggles to find his wife amidst the destruction of humankind at the hands of terrifying alien invaders.


The First Men in the Moon
2010 · 1h 30m · UK
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.


The Invisible Chronicles
2009 · 1h 20m · US
Young scientist Griffin experiments on himself with an invisibility serum. The serum is successful, and Griffin wreaks murderous revenge on his enemies, but can't stop there.
War of the Servers
War of the Servers
2007 · 1h 40m · UK
When strange beings called Mingebags invade the servers of the popular game Garry's Mod, one player must try to survive while searching for his friends amid the chaos and war.


H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
2005 · 1h 40m · US
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.


War of the Worlds
2005 · 1h 57m · US
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.


H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
2005 · 3h · US
This movie is a faithful adaptation of H. G. Well's book, set in the 19th century.


Time Kid
2003 · 1h 14m · US
An adaptation of H.G Well's Time Machine for Nickleodon. Tom's scientist father, overwhelmed with grief over the loss of his wife, invents a time machine. He attempts to go in to the future to find a cure that he can take back in time to his wife, so that she might live. He never comes back, only his time machine. So Tom goes into the future to rescue his dad.


The Time Machine
2002 · 1h 36m · US
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.


The Invisible Man
1998 · 45m · US
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.


The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996 · 1h 36m · US
After surviving a plane crash caused by a magnetic storm, United Nations attorney Edward Douglas stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.


The Invisible Man
1985 · 1h 29m · SU
A poor scientist named Griffin discovers a way to make things invisible. Since he has no money to continue his research, he decides to perform his only experiment on himself. After becoming invisible, Griffin has a lot of trouble trying to conceal this from other people.


The Shape of Things to Come
1979 · 1h 38m · CA
Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus.


The Time Machine
1978 · 1h 39m · US
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.


The Island of Dr. Moreau
1977 · 1h 39m · US
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.


The Invisible Man
1977 · 1h 44m · SU
Made for Russian television version of the Invisible Man, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.


The Food of the Gods
1976 · 1h 28m · US
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.


The Marvelous Visit
1974 · 1h 40m · FR
In a small French village, an angel appears disguised as a beautiful young blond.


The Twilight People
1972 · 1h 20m · US
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Island of Doctor Agor
The Island of Doctor Agor
1971 · 1m · US
An adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story "The Island of Doctor Moreau".


Village of the Giants
1965 · 1h 21m · US
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.


The Time Machine
1960 · 1h 43m · US
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.


The Invisible Man in Istanbul
1955 · 1h 31m · TR
H.G. Well’s popular creation gets a Turkish reworking in this fascinating account about a scientist who becomes the invisible man to track down his wife’s killer. Written by Vasillis ‘Bill’ Barounis


Invisible Man
1954 · 1h 10m · JP
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.


The War of the Worlds
1953 · 1h 25m · US
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.


Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951 · 1h 23m · US
As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.


The Invisible Man Appears
1949 · 1h 22m · JP
A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel.


The Passionate Friends
1949 · 1h 31m · UK
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine
1949 · 1h · UK


Invisible Agent
1942 · 1h 21m · US
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.


Kipps
1941 · 1h 51m · UK
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.


Things to Come
1936 · 1h 40m · UK
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.


The Invisible Man
1933 · 1h 11m · US
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.


Island of Lost Souls
1932 · 1h 11m · US
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.


Marriage
1927 · 56m · US
Marjorie Pope, who is engaged to Magnet, a wealthy suitor whom she does not love, elopes with Trafford, an inventor, after his airplane crashes on the grounds of her parents' rural home. Soon, however, Marjorie, irked by his dedication and idealism, persuades Trafford to market his wonderful invention, but her extravagance leads her into an affair with Sir Roderick. Trafford turns her out of their African home, but she returns to nurse him back to health when he is injured by a lion.
The Wheels of Chance
The Wheels of Chance
1922 · UK
A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.


The Passionate Friends
1922 · 1h 10m · UK
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Kipps
Kipps
1921 · 1h 29m
Sacked clerk inherits £3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.


The First Men in the Moon
1919 · 50m · UK
The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.


Le Voleur invisible
1909 · 7m · FR
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author…